Leoníd Fédorovich. Are you going to my son?
Petríshchev. I? Yes, I want to see Vovó for a minute.
Leoníd Fédorovich. Go on, go on!
(Petríshchev takes off his overcoat and walks away rapidly.)
Scene XXVI. The same, without Petríshchev.
Leoníd Fédorovich (to the peasants). Yes. Well, so what do you want?
Second Peasant. Accept our presents!
First Peasant (smiling). So to speak, the country prepositions.
Third Peasant. Don't even mention it! We greet you as a father. So, don't mention it!
Leoníd Fédorovich. Well— Fédor, receive these things!
Fédor Iványch. Well, give them to me! (Takes the presents.)
Leoníd Fédorovich. Now, what business is it?
First Peasant. We have come to your Grace.
Leoníd Fédorovich. I see you have come to see me. But what do you wish?
First Peasant. To make a motion in regard to the accomplishment of the sale of the land. It originates—
Leoníd Fédorovich. What is it? Are you buying land?
First Peasant. In rivality, it is so. It originates— So to speak in regard to the purchase of the proprietorship of land. Thus, for example, the Commune has inpowered us to enter it, so to speak, as is proper, through the government bank, with adhesion of a stamp of the legalized date.
Leoníd Fédorovich. That is, you wish to buy land through the bank,—am I right?
