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Masha and Irina are both in despair and it is up to the eldest sister, Olga, to comfort and placate them. Olga is frustrated by the course her life has taken and she is desperate to escape the mundane monotony of her daily work life. She has received a marriage proposal from Baron Tuzenbach but is unsure whether to accept him as she does not truly love him. Meanwhile, Masha is distraught as she has fallen in love with Vershinin, a lieutenant colonel, but they are both already married.
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IRINA. Yes, really, our Andrey has grown smaller; how he’s snuffed out and aged with that woman! He used to want to be a professor, and yesterday he was boasting that at last he had been made a member of the district council. He is a member, and Protopopov is chairman.... The whole town talks and laughs about it, and he alone knows and sees nothing.... And now
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