Ast Monologue from A PlayBy J. H. SpeenhoffTranslated from the Dutch

From A PlayBy J. H. SpeenhoffTranslated from the Dutch by A. V. C. P. Huizinga and Pierre Loving.

any · anguished · 1:05 min

And you lose money by your hardness. Praskóvya Petróvna is a poor woman. For years she has been saving up money to build a stone house over the grave of her son in the Tróitski Cemetery. You say that you will build it for 500 roubles, but you ask too much. By starving herself and pinching in every way she has saved up 400 roubles at last, and if you were a wise man you would accept it. For see, she is old; if she starve herself to save up another 100 roubles she will be dead before she has got it; her money will be sent back to her village or it will go into the pocket of some official, and you will not have the tomb-house to build at all.

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