The Power of Darkness

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Лев Николаевич Толстой. The Power of Darkness

CHARACTERS

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

VARIATION

Scene 2

ACT V

Scene 1

Scene 2

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The Act takes place in autumn in a large village. The Scene represents Peter's roomy hut. Peter is sitting on a wooden bench, mending a horse-collar. Anísya and Akoulína are spinning, and singing a part-song.

PETER [looking out of the window] The horses have got loose again. If we don't look out they'll be killing the colt. Nikíta! Hey, Nikíta! Is the fellow deaf? [Listens. To the women] Shut up, one can't hear anything.

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PETER. Yes, we could manage that.

MATRYÓNA. Ah, but it's not yet settled between ourselves, Peter Ignátitch. I'll speak to you as I would before God, and you may judge between my old man and me. He goes on harping on that marriage. But just ask – who it is he wants him to marry. If it were a girl of the right sort now – I am not my child's enemy, but the wench is not honest.

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