The Poor Bride

If one considers now how everything is done in this world. You are rich, and everyone respects you, but if you are poor, they turn their noses up. That means it is not the person that is needed, but the wealth (she spreads her arms). Everything is done so strangely! (Looking out the window). Oh, confound you! Someone has arrived. (She walks to the door).

SCENE VI.

You say: not putting on weight! But why should I? It would be another matter if I lived in peace, but instead... ah... (She approaches her and speaks in a half-whisper). I mean, Karpovna, you will not believe it, the entire livelong day she is like a wound-up clock—this is not right, that is not to her liking—and she starts to grumble, and starts... I am a hot-tempered woman, I cannot endure anything against myself; well, you speak your mind; and the air turns blue idiom: "smoke like a crook," meaning a huge row or argument... fighting and hysterics. I mean, it seems that if it were not for my habit of this house, having lived here for seven years, I would not have stayed a single day.