re....

TUZENBACH. Stop! What right... [Waves his hand and goes into the house.]

KULIGIN. Near the theatre... Soleni started behaving offensively to the
Baron, who lost his temper and said something nasty....

CHEBUTIKIN. I don't know. It's all bunkum.

KULIGIN. At some seminary or other a master wrote "bunkum" on an essay,
and the student couldn't make the letters out--thought it was a Latin
word "luckum." [Laughs] Awfully funny, that. They say that Soleni is in
love with Irina and hates the Baron.... That's quite natural. Irina is
a very nice girl. She's even like Masha, she's so thoughtful.... Only,
Irina your character is gentler. Though Masha's character, too, is a
very good one. I'm very fond of Masha. [Shouts of "Yo-ho!" are heard
behind the stage.]

IRINA. [Shudders] Everything seems to frighten me today. [Pause] I've
got everything ready, and I send my things off after dinner. The
Baron and I will be married to-morrow, and to-morrow we go away to
the brickworks, and the next day I go to the school, and the new life
begins. God will help me! When I took my examination for the teacher's
post, I actually wept for joy and gratitude.... [Pause] The cart will be
here in a minute for my things....

KULIGIN. Somehow or other, all this doesn't seem at all serious. As if
it was all ideas, and nothing really serious. Still, with all my soul I
wish you happiness.

CHEBUTIKIN. [With deep feeling] My splendid... my dear, precious
girl.... You've gone on far ahead, I won't catch up with you. I'm left
behind like a migrant bird grown old, and unable to fly. Fly, my
dear, fly, and God be with you! [Pause] It's a pity you shaved your
moustaches, Feodor Ilitch.

KULIGIN. Oh, drop it! [Sighs] To-day the soldiers will be gone, and
everything will go on as in the old days. Say what you will, Masha is
a good, honest woman. I love her very much, and thank my fate for her.
People have such different fates. There's a Kosirev who works in the
excise department here. He was at school with me; he was expelled
from the fifth class of the High School for being entirely unable to
understand _ut consecutivum_. He's awfully hard up now and in very
poor health, and when I meet him I say to him, "How do you do, _ut
consecutivum_." "Yes," he says, "precisely _consecutivum_..." and
coughs. But I've been successful all my life, I'm happy, and I even have
a Stanislaus Cross, of the second class, and now I myself teach others
that _ut conse