Complete Works of Anton Chekhov

SCENE II

SEMYON carrying buckets and JULIE coining in JULIE: Good day, Semyon! God assist you! Is Ilya Ilyich at home?

SEMYON: Yes. He’s gone to the mill.

JULIE: Will you go and call him?

SEMYON: Yes. [Goes away.

JULIE {alone): He must be asleep! . . . (Sitting down on the bench under the window and sighing deeply.) Some sleep,

others lounge about, and I all day long am running about,

running about. ... God won’t end my life. (With a still deeper sigh.) Good God, that there can be such foolish people as that Waffle! As I drove by his barn a black pig came out of th^ door... It’ll serve him right if the pigs tear the sacks which aren’t his. . . .

ENTER DYADIN.