Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Oxen Meadows, we or he?
CHUBUKOV. [To LOMOV] Darling, the Meadows are ours! LOMOV. But, please, Stepan Stepanitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man! My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got as accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that ... CHUBUKOV. Excuse me, my precious. ... You forget just this, that the peasants didn't pay your grandmother and all that, because the Meadows were in dispute, and so on. And now everybody knows that they're ours. It means that you haven't seen the plan. LOMOV. I'll prove to you that they're mine! CHUBUKOV. You won't prove it, my darling. LOMOV. I shall! CHUBUKOV. Dear one, why yell like that? You won't prove anything just by yelling. I don't want anything of yours, and don't intend to give up what I have. Why should I? And you know, my beloved, that if you propose to go on arguing about it, I'd much sooner give up the meadows to the peasants than to you. There! LOMOV. I don't understand! How have you the right to give away somebody else's property? |
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