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| Katerina Ivanovna, who certainly was upset and very tired, as well as heartily sick of the dinner, at once cut short Amalia Ivanovna, saying "she knew nothing about it and was talking nonsense, that it was the business of the laundry maid, and not of the directress of a high-class boarding-school to look after _die Waesche_, and as for novel-reading, that was simply rudeness, and she begged her to be silent." | Катерина Ивановна, которая действительно была расстроена и очень устала и которой уже совсем надоели поминки, тотчас же "отрезала" Амалии Ивановне, что та "мелет вздор" и ничего не понимает; что заботы об ди веше дело кастелянши, а не директрисы благородного пансиона; а что касается до чтения романов, так уж это просто даже неприличности, и что она просит ее замолчать. |
| Amalia Ivanovna fired up and getting angry observed that she only "meant her good," and that "she had meant her very good," and that "it was long since she had paid her _gold_ for the lodgings." | Амалия Ивановна вспыхнула и, озлобившись, заметила, что она только "добра желаль" и что она "много ошень добра желаль", а что ей "за квартир давно уж гельд не платиль". |
| Katerina Ivanovna at once "set her down," saying that it was a lie to say she wished her good, because only yesterday when her dead husband was lying on the table, she had worried her about the lodgings. | Катерина Ивановна тотчас же "осадила" ее, сказав, что она лжет, говоря, что "добра желаль", потому что еще вчера, когда покойник еще на столе лежал, она ее за квартиру мучила. |
| To this Amalia Ivanovna very appropriately observed that she had invited those ladies, but "those ladies had not come, because those ladies _are_ ladies and cannot come to a lady who is not a lady." | На это Амалия Ивановна весьма последовательно заметила, что она "тех дам приглашаль, но что те дам не пришоль, потому что те дам благородный дам и не могут пришоль к неблагородный дам". |
| Katerina Ivanovna at once pointed out to her, that as she was a slut she could not judge what made one really a lady. | Катерина Ивановна тотчас же "подчеркнула" ей, что так как она чумичка, то и не может судить о том, что такое истинное благородство. |
| Amalia Ivanovna at once declared that her "_Vater aus Berlin_ was a very, very important man, and both hands in pockets went, and always used to say: 'Poof! poof!'" and she leapt up from the table to represent her father, sticking her hands in her pockets, puffing her cheeks, and uttering vague sounds resembling "poof! poof!" amid loud laughter from all the lodgers, who purposely encouraged Amalia Ivanovna, hoping for a fight. |
