[Exit right, laughing bitterly.

CHACHO. Gracious heaven, be thou our saviour and deliverer.

CURTAIN.


ACT SECOND
Scene I

A richly furnished sales-room in Barssegh's house.

MICHO. Two, three, four, five, six and this little piece. It does not measure so much!

BARSSEGH [

standing up and giving Micho a rap on the nose

]. You have what is lacking there. Measure again. Now you've got what is lacking. I will tear your soul out of your body if you measure so that in seven arschin