honourable man.
ln the first place, l'm not
''your dear sir''.
ln the second place, l have no intention
of giving you any explanation.
Gentlemen, why did you
write this article?
l knew nothing about article.
lt's all untrue.
-Why it's untrue?
-Allow me prince.
Yourself.
-You know that yourselves.
- lt's all true.
l think, gentlemen, that you have been guilty of a mean action.
A mean action
You are wrong!
You are pleased to forget, prince,
it was only through your kindness
of your heart you received them
and now, illustrious prince,
you might turn all these gentlemen
out at once into the street.
What?
What do you permit yourself?
l, as a master of the house,
with a greatest pleasure.
Perfectly right.
Lebedeff, enough. Enough.
- No, excuse me.
-With a greatest pleasure
That's not enough now.
They threaten too turn us
into the street.
But is it possible, prince, you can think us
such fools
as not to understand we have no legal claim whatever
we have no right to ask
for a single rouble.
We came because
we assumed
you to be a man of common sense.
That is of honour and conscience.
We put the question to you directly
and with dignity.
Do you admit that you were
benefited
and perhaps saved
from death of Pavlicheff?
lf you admit it, and it's evident,
do you, after receiving millions, intend
to compensate Pavlicheff's
son in his poverty,
even though he does bear the name of Burdovsky.
lf yes, satisfy us
and the matter is finished.
Satisfy us without entreaties
and gratitude on our part.
Don't expect them of us,
for you are doing it not for our sake,
but for the sake of justice.
lf your answer is no, we go away
and the case is over.
And we tell you to your face, that you are
a man of coarse intelligence
and low development.
That the future you dare not call youself a man
with honour and conscience
and have no right to do so.
l've finished.
Turn us into the street now,
if you dare.
But remember all the same that we demand
and we don't beg.
Mark it well.
We demand, we don't beg.
We demand.
Yes, prince.
We demand, we don't beg.
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen. Gentlemen.
You published that article
on the supposition that nothing
would induce me to satisfy Mr.Burdovsky.
This is insufferable.
But how do you know
l may have to satisfy Mr.Burdovsky.
Yes.
-Yes. Now. l'm here.
- Good Lord.
l declare.
Listen, gentlemen.
l'll satisfy.
Come, that's
a wise and generous saying
From a wise and generous man.
Five weeks ago you
lawyer, Tchebaroff, came to see me.
- l didn't like him.
-You didn't like him too?
- Understand.
- Be silent.
l think, he have taught you.
- How?
He had taken advantage of your simplicity.
You've no right. l'm not simple.
You've no sort of right
to make such suppositions.
This suppositions
is insulting, false and irrelevant.
l agree.
- Surely.
l'm sorry, gentlemen.
l'm sorry.
- This is intolerable.
- Excuse me, l think.
l decided l must help to poor and
trustful Ms.Burdovsky.
Trustful?
l decided to give him
ten thousand roubles.
That's all that by my reckoning
Pavlicheff could have upon me.
What, only ten thousand?
Well, prince, you are not at all good
in arithmetic.
Or else you are too good at it.
l won't agree to take ten thousand.
Antip, take it. Take it.
Afterwards we'll see.
Listen to me.
Listen to me. l've time to see clearly.
l'm convinced
that my guess was correct.
-What's the guess?
-What's the guess, prince?
What.
That Mr.Budovsky is an innocent man.
- Of course innocent.
He is a helpless man
- Helpless?
- Therefore l ought to spare him.
- Don't say so.
-What?
- Don't spare.
- Let's here out.
- Sit down, Antip, don't worry.
- Hear out.
Hear me out, gentlemen.
The chief point it appears now
that Mr.Burdovsky
is not a son of Pavlicheff at all.
Not the son of Pavlicheff?
Not the son of Pavlicheff?
gentlemen, Gavrila Ardalionovitch will explain everything to us.
Yes? Yes.
- He has even