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 : In the evening we went to Berejnitski’s. Kate was wearing a blue foulard frock, a little decolleté, and she had her hair done very high. I combed her myself. And the way she was dressed and had her hair done, well, it was simply enchanting

(with a headache): Yes, yes, enchanting—They might be here at any moment.


 * Your excellency!

(dejected): What is it? What do you want?

(pointing to Hirin): Your excellency, that man, that man there, he tapped his finger on his forehead and then on the table! You told him to look after my business, and he makes fun of every word. I’m a weak, defenceless woman


 * Very well, Madame, I’m considering it. I will take measures. Go away now. Afterwards (Aside.) My gout’s beginning.

(quietly to Shipuchin): Mr. Shipuchin, tell them to send for the porter, and let her be thrown out by the scruff of the neck.

(frightened): No, no! She’d start to scream, and there are a lot of people in the house.