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. What are you sitting there for? There is no time to lose. You have to carry it out at once.

. What are we going to do?

. Do what I tell you!

. You had better take it to the Foundling House.

. You carry it there, if you want to. You are ready enough to do something nasty, but very weak in straightening things out.

. What is to be done?

. I told you: go into the cellar and dig a hole there!

. Can't you do it any other way?

(mocking him). Any other way? No, you can't. You ought to have thought of it before. Go where I tell you!

. Oh, it is a bad business!

. Mamma! grandmother is calling you. Sister must have a baby,—truly,—it has been crying.

. Don't talk! The paralysis take you! The kittens are mewing. Go into the house and sleep! Or I will teach you!

. Mamma dear, really, upon my word—

(raising her hand against her). I will show you! Don't let me hear a word from you!

(runs away).

(to Nikita). Go and do as I tell you! Or look out! (Exit.)

. Bad business! Oh, these women! It is bad! She says I ought to have thought of it before.