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At this point, from the original publication, Chekhov deleted this:

“The Armenian left the house, spreading his feet, went down past me on the stairs and, not taking the pipe from his mouth, tossed out some kind of sneezy sounds, of this kind, ‘Tkhan-mkhachkha!’ Masha ran to him and he began telling her something quickly and angrily – probably а rebuke. She, silent and lowering her eyes, listened to him, then ran into the kitchen, from there then to the barn, and I saw how the Ukrainian stopped yelling and cracking his whip and followed her with his eyes.”