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ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. And did he fast, or prepare for communion?
MARY IVÁNOVNA. From the time of our marriage--that's twenty years
ago--till then he had never fasted nor taken the sacrament, but at that
time he did once take the sacrament in a monastery, and then immediately
afterwards decided that one should neither take communion nor go to
church.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. That's what I say--thoroughly inconsistent!
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Yes, a month before, he would not miss a single service,
and kept every fast-day; and then he suddenly decided that it was all
unnecessary. What can one do with such a man?
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. I have spoken and will speak to him again.
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Yes! But the matter is of no great importance.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. No? Not to you! Because you men have no religion.
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Do let me speak. I say that that is not the point.
The point is this: if he denies the Church, what does he want the
Gospels for?
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Well, so that we should live according to the Gospels and
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