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 (watching him): What! Oh, that won’t do! That won’t do! Do that to your own wife! You don’t do that to me!

(angrily; shouting): Get out of it!


 * That won’t do! That won’t do! I’m not afraid of you! We’ve seen your sort before! Creature!

(shouting): I don’t think in all my life I ever saw anything so repugnant. Ugh! It’s going to my head! (Breathes with difficulty.) I’ll tell you again! Are you listening? If you don’t go away from here, you old witch, I’ll grind you to powder! I’ve got such a character, that I could make a cripple of you for life! I can commit a crime!


 * “The dog barks, the wind blows it away.” I’m not frightened. We’ve seen your sort before.

(in despair): I can’t look at her! I feel ill! I can’t! (Goes to table and sits down.) They fill the bank with women—I can’t write the report. I can’t!


 * I don’t want anything of anybody else’s, I only want my legal rights. Oh, you shameless man! To sit here in slippers! You yokel! (Enter Shipuchin, followed by Tatiana.)