2. The present value of the rouble is rather over fifty cents.
3. The Gypsy choirs are very popular in Moscow.
4. BETSY. Cease! You are becoming quite unbearable!.
5. PETRISTCHEF. I have C said (ceased), B said, and D said.
6. BARONESS. But tell me, please, is he paid for this?
ANNA PAVLOVNA. I really do not know.
BARONESS. But he is a gentleman?
ANNA PAVLOVNA. Oh, yes!
BARONESS. It is almost miraculous. Isn't it? How does he manage
to find things?
ANNA PAVLOVNA. I really can't tell you. My husband will explain
it to you.... Excuse me....
7. Stunning!
8. BARONESS. Capital! Does it not cause him any pain?
LEONID FYODORITCH. Not the slightest.
9. He uses a Centigrade thermometer.
10. LEONID FYODORITCH. You bring good luck.
11. FAT LADY. But he looks quite nice.
12. To take a header.
13. Do not disappoint us.
14. BETSY. I have more than enough of your Koko.
15. YOUNG PRINCESS. He is usually so very punctual....
16. BETSY. Cease; mind the servants!
17. And that won't suit me at all, at all! Not at all, at all!
18. Employers have charge of the servants' passports, and in this way
have a hold on them in case of misconduct.
19. It is customary for peasants to marry just after Easter, but when
spring has come and the field work begun, no marriages take place
among them till autumn. (See also THE POWER OF DARKNESS
footnote 2.)
20. COUNTESS. Thank you (for your hospitality), a thousand thanks
21. ANNA PAVLOVNA. Thank you (for coming to see us), a thousand
thanks. Till next Tuesday!
End of Project Gutenberg's Redemption and Two Other Plays, by Leo Tolstoy
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