Chapter 10 before marriage

before marriage Chekhov On Thursday last week Miss Podzadyrkina was announced at the house of her venerable parents as the fiancée of Nazaliyev, the civil servant of the fourteenth order.The engagement ceremony couldn't have been more respectable.The guests drank two bottles of Lanin champagne and a half of Vidro's.The ladies drank a bottle of claret Lafayette.Both fiancée and fiancée's parents cried at the right moment, and both fiancée and fiancée kissed happily.The congratulatory speech by an eighth-grade middle school student contained such foreign words as: "O tem-P ora, om ores" and "Salvete, boni futuri conjuges!"2 and pronounced beautifully.Vanka Smyslomarov, with reddish brown hair, was waiting for the lottery, so he simply put aside his business and chose the most suitable time of the day to "seize the opportunity" to open his arms and stage a terrible show. Tragedy, ruffling the hair on the big head, beating the knees with the fists, and shouting: "Damn, I love her, love her!" This made the girls laugh out loud.

Miss Podzatilkina was remarkable only because she had nothing remarkable about her.No one has seen her wisdom, no one knows it, and there is nothing to say about it.Her appearance is very ordinary: her nose is like her father, her chin is like her mother's, her eyes are like a cat's, and her breasts are not very conspicuous.She can play the piano, but she can't play it according to the sheet music.She often helps her mother cook in the kitchen, wears tights with a waist every day, and cannot eat vegetarian food on fasting days, so she thinks that knowing how to use the letter B ④ is a great knowledge.What she loves most in the world is a man with a good figure and the name Roland.

Mr. Nazariev was a man of medium height, with a pale, expressionless face, curly hair and a flattened back of the head.He was working somewhere for a meager salary, barely enough to buy tobacco.He always smelled of egg soap and carbolic acid, and he was a self-important sex hunter, with a high-pitched voice, fussing all day long, and spattering when he talked.He likes to dress up and has an arrogant attitude towards his parents. No matter which lady he sees, he always says to her: "You are so simple! You should read literary works often!" What he loves most in the world is the one he wrote himself. Pen writing, "Entertainment" magazine⑤, creaking leather boots, but what he loves most is himself, especially when he sits with the girls, drinks sugared tea, and has a fierce His own manner when he denied the existence of the devil.

Miss Podzadyrkina and Mr. Nazariev are such two people! The next morning after the engagement ceremony, Miss Podzatilkina woke up from her sleep, and a cook came and told her to go to her mother.Mother ①Latin: Long live a good couple in the future! ②Russian liquid volume name, one Vedro is equal to 12.3 liters. ③ Refers to the drawing of lots for military service, and those who win the lottery will serve in the military. ④A Russian letter, which is now obsolete, has the same pronunciation as another letter e, so it is easy to be confused with it when spelling. ⑤ A humor magazine published in Moscow at that time.

Lying on the bed, he gave her the following instruction: "What are you doing in a wool dress today? You could wear tulle today. My head hurts, it hurts like hell! Yesterday, the ugly bald man, your father, made a joke. I don't appreciate him." Those ridiculous jokes. He brought me a wine glass with something in it. . . . 'Drink,' he said. I thought the glass was full of wine, so I drank it all in one gulp, but the glass contained It's sour vinegar and herring oil. That's his joke, drunken ugly! He, drooling old thing, makes a fool of himself! I'm amazed you were happy yesterday and didn't cry I don't know what's going on. What's there to be happy about? Did you find the money or something? I don't understand! Everyone will think that you are happy because you are leaving your parents' house. I'm afraid it is so. Right. What? Love? What kind of love is there?

You didn't marry him out of love at all, you just coveted his official status!Why, isn't it so?That's right, it's the truth.As for me, my boy, I don't like your mouth.He is too proud and conceited.You have to subdue him. ……what?Stop thinking about it! ... In less than a month, you will start fighting: he is that person, and you are also that person.Only girls like to get married. In fact, there is no advantage in getting married.I've been through it myself, I know.If you live, you will understand one day.Don't turn your body around like this, even if you don't turn like this, my head is already dizzy enough.Men are all fools, and it's not very comfortable to live with them.Your guy, even though you hold your head high, is actually a fool.Don't follow him too much, don't depend on him for everything, and don't respect him too much.In case of trouble, you should discuss it with your mother.

No matter what happens, you come to me immediately.Don't do anything without asking your mother, God bless you!Your husband can't come up with any good ideas, and he can't teach you what to do. He always only cares about his own interests.You have to understand this!Don't listen too much to your father.Don't ask your father to live in your house, maybe you will be confused for a moment... rashly invite him.When he's gone, he'll keep plotting against you.He will sit in your house for many days in a row, but what do you want him for?He must ask you for drinks and smoke your husband's tobacco.

Although he is your father, he is a bad and harmful man.He is a wicked guy, he looks quite honest, but his heart is not to mention how cunning!He will open his mouth to borrow money from you, so don't give it to him, because although he is a ninth-rank civil servant, he is a slippery man, and he won't pay back the money he borrowed.Listen, he is yelling, he is calling you!Then you go to him, but don't tell him what I just said to him.Or he's going to hang on to me in no time, the Christian bastard, I'd love to see him dead!Before my heart fails, you go! ...you enemies!I am dead, you must remember my words!Martyrs! "

Miss Podzatilkina left her mother and went to her father's room. Meanwhile, Pa sat up on the bed and sprinkled Persian powder on his pillow. "My daughter!" Papa said to her. "I am very glad that you intend to marry such a clever gentleman as Mr. Nazariev. I am very happy about this marriage and fully approve of it. Marry him, my daughter, and do not be afraid! Marriage is very solemn So... hey, what's the point of saying this? Live your life, raise your sons and daughters, and reproduce. May God bless you! I... I... cried. However, crying is of no use.What are human tears?Nothing but cowardly psychiatry②, nothing more!My daughter, you take my advice!Don't forget your parents!For you, a husband is not as good as your parents, really not!What your husband likes is just your physical beauty, but we like you as a whole.What does your husband like about you?fancy your character?Fancy your kindness?Fancy a sign of your affection?No, miss!He loves you because he covets your dowry.You know, our dowry for you, my little darling, is not a penny, but a thousand rubles!You have to understand this!Mr. Nazariev is a very good gentleman, but you should not respect him more than your father.He'll have a crush on you, but he won't be your real friend.In the future, he will inevitably meet...No, it is better not to speak, my daughter.

Listen to what your mother says, my little darling, but be careful.She was a good woman, but duplicity, free-thinking, frivolous, and airy.She's a noble and honest person, but... fuck her!She would not be able to give you the kind of advice your father, the author of your life, gave you.Don't take her to live with you.The husband always dislikes the mother-in-law. I myself disliked my mother-in-law, very much, and more than once had the audacity to sprinkle burnt cork powder in her coffee, with the most spectacular spectacle.Second Lieutenant Nyubu Mubenchekov was court-martialed for his mother-in-law.

Don't you remember this incident?However, you were not born yet.The important thing is that no matter where, no matter what happens, your father can always advise. You have to understand this, you have to listen to your father alone.Also, my daughter. ...European civilization has cultivated an opposition among women who think that the more children a woman has, the worse it is.This is nonsense!Story Poetry!The more children a parent has, the better. But, no!Not so!completely opposite!I was wrong, baby.The fewer children the better.This is what I read in the newspapers and magazines yesterday.A man named Malthus wrote that article.correct.Someone came in a carriage. ……Hey!It's your fiancé!What a rich man, this elf, naughty fellow!What a man!What a real Walter Scott!Go, little darling, and you entertain him, while I can get dressed. " Mr. Nazariev arrived in a carriage.His fiancée greeted him and said, "Please sit down, you're welcome!" Twice he bumped the heel of his right boot against the heel of his left, and sat down beside his fiancée. "How are you?" he began in his usual casual manner. "How did you sleep? I, you know, stayed up all night. I was reading Zola, and I was thinking of you. Have you ever read Zola? Really not? My dear! This What a crime! It was lent to me by a civil servant. It is very well written! I will lend it to you. Ah! I hope you can understand! I have experienced emotions that you have never experienced !Please allow me to kiss you!" Mr. Nazariev leaned up and kissed Miss Podzadyrkina on the lower lip. "Where is your family?" he went on, more casually. "I've got to see them. To be honest, I'm a little bit mad at them. They've made a fool of me. You have to pay attention. ... Your father told me earlier that he was a seventh-rank civil servant, but only now did he realize that he was only a ninth-rank civil servant.Ok! ...Is it possible to do this?Secondly...they promised to give you fifteen thousand as dowry money, but yesterday your mother told me that I could only get one thousand at most.Isn't this a jerk?The Circassians are bloodthirsty people, but even they cannot do such a thing.I will not allow people to deceive me!You can do anything, but don't touch my self-esteem and self-forgetfulness!This is not human!This is unreasonable!I am an honest person, so I don't like dishonest people!I am a person who doesn't care about anything, but just don't play tricks on me, don't make cold shots, and act in accordance with human conscience! That's it!Even their faces are so rustic!What kind of face is that?It's simply not a face!Please forgive me, but I have no kinship feelings for them.Yeah, when we're married we're going to take care of them.I don't like that unreasonable and unreasonable style of domination!I am neither a skeptic nor a cynic,6 but I have a little education after all.We must discipline them well!My parents have long been docile to me.What, have you had coffee already?not yet?Well, then I'll drink it with you and have a good time.Bring me a cigarette, I forgot mine at home. " His fiancée walked out. This is before marriage. ... As for what will happen after marriage, I think that it is not only prophets and sleepwalkers⑦ who can know. *********** ① A powder for exterminating bedbugs. ② It should be "psychological performance".There are still some inappropriate wording in order to lose the text below, so I won't note them one by one. ③ Malthus (1766-1834), British bourgeois vulgar economist, author of the anti-scientific "On Population". ④ Walter Scott (1771-1832), British historical novelist. ⑤ A Russian minority living in the northern Caucasus. ⑥It is a metaphor that he is not yet a learned person. ⑦According to Russian superstition, sleepwalkers have a mysterious ability to answer all people's questions.