Peter Monologue from The Power of Darkness

From The Power of Darkness by Leo, graf Tolstoy

male · dark · 1:34 min

If he were to get married, 'twould be a good thing in a way. AKÍM. We'd like to... what d'you call it? 'Cos why, you see. I've what d'you call it... a job. I mean, I've found a paying job in town, you know. MATRYÓNA. And a fine job too--cleaning out cesspools. The other day when he came home, I could do nothing but spew and spew. Faugh! AKÍM. It's true, at first it does seem what d'you call it... knocks one clean over, you know,--the smell, I mean. But one gets used to it, and then it's nothing, no worse than malt grain, and then it's, what d'you call it,... pays, pays, I mean. And as to the smell being, what d'you call it, it's not for the likes of us to complain. And one changes one's clothes. So we'd like to take what's his name... Nikíta I mean, home. Let him manage things at home while I, what d'you call it,--earn something in town.

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