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MARY IVÁNOVNA. Yes, that is what it leads to. As it is, they break our
apple-trees and tread down the green cornfields, and he forgives them
everything.
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Extraordinary!
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. That is just why I say that it must not be allowed
to go on. Why, if it goes on like that, tout y passera.[10] I think it
is your duty as a mother to prendre tes mesures.[11]
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10] Everything will be lost.
11] To take measures.
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MARY IVÁNOVNA. What can I do?
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. What indeed! Stop him! Explain to him that this
cannot go on. You have your children! What sort of an example is it for
them?
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Of course, it is hard; but I go on bearing it, and hoping
it will pass, like his former infatuations.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Yes, but "Aide toi et Dieu t'aidera!"[12] You must
make him feel that he has not only himself to think of, and that one
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