OSIP. "Every Tom, Dick and Harry comes and lives
here," he says, "and runs up debts so that you can't even
put him out. I'm not going to fool about it," he says,
"I'm going straight to the Governor and have him arrested
and put in jail."

KHLESTAKOV. That'll do now, you fool. Go down at
once and tell him to have dinner sent up. The coarse
brute! The idea!

OSIP. Hadn't I better call the landlord here?

KHLESTAKOV. What do I want the landlord for?
Go and tell him yourself.

OSIP. But really, master--

KHLESTAKOV. Well, go, the deuce take you. Call
the landlord.

Osip goes out.



SCENE III


KHLESTAKOV [alone]. I am so ravenously hungry. I
took a little stroll thinking I could walk off my appetite.