SCENE X
PODKHALYÚZIN, BOLSHÓV, and TISHKA
BOLSHÓV. Go to the pigs yourself! [FOMÍNISHNA goes out. To TISHKA] What are you gaping at? Haven't you anything to do?
PODKHALYÚZIN. [To TISHKA] You've been spoken to, haven't you?
TISHKA goes out.
BOLSHÓV. Has the shyster been here?
PODKHALYÚZIN. He has, sir.
BOLSHÓV. Did you talk with him?
PODKHALYÚZIN. Why, Samsón Sílych? Does he have any feeling? Isn't his soul naturally nothing but ink, sir? He just thrums on one string—to declare yourself bankrupt.
BOLSHÓV. If I must declare myself bankrupt, I'll do it, and there's an end to it.