Read "The Power of Darkness" by Leo Tolstoy online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
[The same hut. Winter. Nine months have passed since Act II: Anísya, plainly dressed, sits before a loom weaving. Nan is on the oven.]
MÍTRITCH [an old labourer, enters, and slowly takes off his outdoor things] Oh Lord, have mercy! Well, hasn't the master come home yet?