Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Count and to intrigue. ... Oh, my heart! ... You're an intriguer!
CHUBUKOV. What? I an intriguer? [Shouts] Shut up! LOMOV. Intriguer! CHUBUKOV. Boy! Pup! LOMOV. Old rat! Jesuit! CHUBUKOV. Shut up or I'll shoot you like a partridge! You fool! LOMOV. Everybody knows that--oh my heart!--your late wife used to beat you. ... My feet ... temples ... sparks. ... I fall, I fall! CHUBUKOV. And you're under the slipper of your housekeeper! LOMOV. There, there, there ... my heart's burst! My shoulder's come off. ... Where is my shoulder? I die. [Falls into an armchair] A doctor! [Faints.] CHUBUKOV. Boy! Milksop! Fool! I'm sick! [Drinks water] Sick! NATALYA STEPANOVNA. What sort of a hunter are you? You can't even sit on a horse! [To her father] Papa, what's the matter with him? Papa! Look, papa! [Screams] Ivan Vassilevitch! He's dead! CHUBUKOV. I'm sick! ... I can't breathe! ... Air! NATALYA STEPANOVNA. He's dead. [Pulls LOMOV'S sleeve] Ivan Vassilevitch! |
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