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You are the only, one who doesn't know it. Everybody else knows it.
LIPA
Oh, Lord!
YEGOR
Well, about the Lord we know better than you. You needn't appeal to Him. I want you to tell Savva that I am not afraid of him. He didn't strike the right person. I'll just make him skip. I'll turn him out.
Let him go where he came from. The idea of my having to be responsible for his robberies. Who's ever heard of such a thing?
LIPA
You are not quite wide awake, father, that's what's the matter with you.
YEGOR
I am wide awake all right, and have been for a long time. What I'd like to know is, are _you_ wide awake? Look out, Lipa, don't let it happen to you too.
LIPA
What?
YEGOR
It. _(He yawns and crosses himself)_ If mother were to rise from her grave now and see her children, she would be delighted. Fine children, she would say. I have nursed you, and brought you up, and what's the result? Regular good-for-nothing scamps. Tony'll soon begin to drink again. I can see it on his face. Who's ever heard of such a thing?
People will soon be coming here for the feast-day, and I'll have to work alone for the whole bunch. Polya, hand me that match from the floor--there. No, not there, you blind goose. There, you stupid.
PELAGUEYA _(hunting for the match)_
I don't see it.
YEGOR
I'll take you by the back of your neck and give you such a shaking that you'll see mighty quick. There it is, d.a.m.n you!
LIPA _(faint)_
Oh, G.o.d, what a blistering heat!
YEGOR
There it is. Where are you crawling? Under the chair. There, d.a.m.n you!
SAVVA _(enters gayly, the pocket of his blouse full of jackstones)_ I won six pair.
YEGOR
Well, the idea!
SAVVA
I finished that rascal Misha, cleared him all up. What are you mumbling about there?
YEGOR
Nothing. Only I wish you'd address me a little more politely.
SAVVA _(paying no attention to him)_
Lipa, I won six pair.
LIPA
How can you play in such heat?
SAVVA
Wait, I am going to put the jackstones away. I have eighteen pair now.
Misha, the little rascal, plays well. _(He goes out)_
YEGOR _(rising)_
I don't want to see him any more. Tell him to get out of here at once.
LIPA
All right, I will.
YEGOR
Don't say "all right," but do what your father tells you. A fine lot of brats--that's a sure thing! Yes, yes. _(Goes)_ If mother saw them--
PELAGUEYA
He speaks of mother as if he weren't the one that drove her to an early grave. He talked her to death, the old scold! He just talks and talks, and nags and nags, and he doesn't know himself what he wants.
LIPA
To be with you is like being caught in the wheel of a machine. My head is spinning round and round.
PELAGUEYA
Then why don't you go away with your Savva? What are you waiting for?
LIPA
Look here, why are you angry with me?
