Lopakhin returns from the auction to announce that he has purchased the estate where his ancestors were once serfs. Overwhelmed with a mix of joy and disbelief, he declares his intention to cut down the orchard to make way for new villas.
LOPAKHIN: I have bought it! Stay a bit, don't hurry. My head's going round, I can't speak... If my father and my grandfather could rise from their graves and see all that has happened! How their Yermolay, ignorant, beaten Yermolay, who used to run about barefoot in winter, how that very Yermolay has
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