Comic Strip The Proposal
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- My dear fellow, whom do I see! Ivan Vassilevitch! I am extremely glad! darling... How are you? Are you going somewhere in Evening dress?
- THE PROPOSAL
- No. I’ve come only to see you, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch. I have come to trouble you with a request.
- He’s come to borrow money. Shan’t give him any! What is it, my beauty?
- I mean, I’m awfully excited, as you will please notice... In short, you alone can help me, though I don’t deserve it, of course... and haven’t any right to count on your assistance...
- Oh, don’t go round and round it, darling! Spit it out! Well?
- One moment... this very minute. The fact is I’ve come to ask the hand of your daughter, Natalya Stepanovna, in marriage.
- [joyfully] By Jove! Ivan Vassilevitch! Say it again — Ididn’t hear it all!
- [interrupting] My dear fellow... I’m so glad, and so on...Yes, indeed, and all that sort of thing. [Embraces and kissesLomov] I’ve been hoping for it for a long time. It’s been mycontinual desire. [Sheds a tear] And I’ve always loved you,my angel, as if you were my own son. May God give youboth — His help and His love and so on, and so muchhope... What am I behaving in this idiotic way for? I’m offmy balance with joy, absolutely off my balance! Oh, withall my soul... I’ll go and call Natasha, and all that.
- I have the honour to ask...
- Why, of course, my darling, and... as if she won’t consent! She’s in love; egad, she’s like a lovesick cat, and so on. Shan’t be long!
- [greatly moved] Honoured Stepan Stepanovitch, do youthink I may count on her consent?
- CHUKUBOV EXITS
- It’s cold... I’m trembling all over, just as if I’d got an examination before me. The great thing is, I must havemy mind made up. Brr... It’s cold! Natalya Stepanovna is an excellent housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. What more do I want? In the first place, I’m already 35 — a critical age. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. I suffer from palpitations, I’m excitable and always getting awfully upset; at this very moment my lips are trembling, and there’s a twitch in my right eyebrow. But the very worst of all is the way I sleep. I no sooner get into bed and begin to go off, when suddenly something in my left side gives a pull, and I can feel it in my shoulder and head... I jump up like a lunatic, walk about a bit and lie down again! And this may happen twenty times...
- [Natalya Stepanovna comes in.]
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