Chekhov · The Cherry Orchard · Act 3
I bought it
Monologue
Male
2–4 min
Power
Class
Money
Identity
Lopakhin bursts in, declaring he has bought the cherry orchard at auction, expressing disbelief and pride that he, a former serf's descendant, now owns it.
LOPAKHIN
I bought it! Wait, ladies and gentlemen, please, my head’s going round, I can’t talk.... When we got to the sale, Deriganov was there already. Leonid Andreyevitch had only fifteen thousand roubles, and Deriganov offered thirty thousand on top of the mortgage to begin with. I saw how matters were, so I grabbed hold of him and bid forty. He…
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