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ACT III
SCENE 1
The scene is laid in Moscow. A large room. In it a carpenter's
bench; a table with papers on it; a book-cupboard; a looking-glass
and pictures on the wall behind, with some planks leaning in front
of them. A Carpenter and Nicholas Ivánovich wearing a carpenter's
apron are working at the bench, planing.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [takes a board from the vice] Is that all right?
CARPENTER [setting a plane] Not quite, you must do it more boldly--like
this.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. It is easy to say boldly, but I can't manage it.
CARPENTER. But why should your honour trouble to learn to be a
carpenter? There are such a lot of us nowadays that we can hardly get a
living as it is.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [at work again] I'm ashamed to lead an idle life.
CARPENTER. Yours is that kind of position. God has given you property.
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