idleness.
A sweet picture, really.
Why should you languish here?
My beauty,the blood of a Nixey
runs in your veins.
Won't you let yourself be one?
Give your nature the reins for once in your life.
fall head over ears in love
with some other water sprite.
and plunge down head
first into a deep pool,
so that the Herr Professor and all of us
may have our hands free again
Leave me alone!
There, there, my beauty, I apologise.
As a peace offering I am going to fetch some
flowers which I picked for you this morning.
September already!
Where is the doctor?
He is writing in Uncle Vanya's room.
- I want to talk to you about something.
- About what?
Last Sunday, while leaving church
I've heard people whispering:
she's good and kind-hearted
it's a pity she's so ugly
- You have lovely hair.
when a woman is ugly they always say
she has beautiful hair or eyes.
I have loved him now for six years
I've loved him more than one loves one's mother.
If I look up, I seem to see him coming.
He is here every day now, but he never
looks at me, he doesn't notice my presence.
It is agony. My pride is gone.
Yesterday I told Uncle Vanya I couldn't control
myself, and all the servants know it
- Every one knows that I love him.
- Does he know?
No, he never notices me.
He is a strange man. Listen, Sonia,
will you allow me to speak to him?
Really, to be in uncertainty all these years!...
- Let me do it ...
-  Will you tell me the whole truth?
Of course I will.
Trust me, dearest.
No, it is better not to know
-and yet-there may be hope
How do you do?
You promised to show me what you
had been doing. Have you time now?
- Where were you born?
- In St. Petersburg.
- And studied?
- At the Conservatory there.
You don't find this life
very interesting, I dare say?
It is true I don't know the country very well,
but I have read a great deal about it.
Here I have my little quiet place.
When I am absolutely too exhausted
to go on I drop everything
and rush over here to forget
myself in this work for an hour or two.
Look there!...
That is a map of our county
as it was fifty years ago...
Half the map is covered with forests.
the forests were inhabited by elk and wild goats
here lived great flocks of swans and ducks...
Now, look lower down....
We are confronted by the
degradation of our country.
Look...
Stagnation, negligence.
The ignorance and unconsciousness of
starving, shivering, sick humanity
instinctively snatches at everything
that can warm it and still its hunger.
But I see by your face that
I am not interesting you.
I know so little about such things!
There is nothing to know.
It simply isn't interesting, that's all.
Frankly, my thoughts were elsewhere.
- Forgive me! I want to submit you
to a little examination
- Examination?
Sit down.
I don't know how to begin.
It is about my step-daughter.
Do you like her?
Yes, I respect her.
Do you like her - as a woman?
No.
She is suffering.
You must realise that,
and not come here any more.
My sun has set, yes, and then
I haven't ...
What an unpleasant conversation!
Now let us forget everything
as if nothing had been said.
And ...you're leaving.
If you had spoken a month ago
I might perhaps have considered it.
but now I cannot understand why you had
to put me through this examination.
Oh, my sweet, don't look at me
in that way; I am an old bird!
You must have your victims?
For a whole month I have done
nothing but seek you eagerly...
I have thrown over everything for you,
and you love to see it..
- You have gone mad!
- You are afraid!
- More than you think.
- I'll leave today.
I won't come here again .
But where can we meet,
tell me, tell me?
Someone might come,
tell me quick.
Well, look....
A kiss.
- I swear to you....
- What's that good for. You don't have to swear!
Have pity!Leave me.
- Be in the forest tomorrow at two o'clock
- No.
- Oh! It's terrible!
- Nothing -yes, yes, nothing.
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