Lomonosov was a deep thinker, an investigator of nature.... And he was
one of us plain working folk too.

BORIS.
You should write. That would be interesting.

KULIGIN.
How could I, sir! They'd tear me to pieces, they'd skin me alive. Even as
it is, sir, I have had to pay for my chattering; but I can't help it, I
love to speak my mind freely. I meant to say something about their family
life, sir, but we'll talk of that some other time. There's plenty to tell
about that too.

[_Enter Feklusha and another woman_.

FEKLUSHA.
De-lightful, my clear, de-lightful! Divinely beautiful! But what's the use
of talking! You live in the Promised Land, simply! And the merchant gentry
are all a devout people, and famed for many a virtue! liberality and much
almsgiving! I am well content, my good soul, full to the brim of content!
For their liberality to us will their abundance be greatly increased,
especially in the house of Kabanova.

[_Exeunt_.

BORIS.
Kabanova?

KULIGIN.
A fanatical hypocrite, sir. She gives to the poor, but her own household