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ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Has he proposed, then?
MARY IVÁNOVNA. As good as proposed. He has spoken to her, and she has
said, Yes!
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. That again will be a terrible blow to Nicholas.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Oh, he knows. He can't help knowing.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. He does not like him.
MARY IVÁNOVNA [to the Footmen] Put the fruit on the side-board. Like
whom? Alexander Mikáylovich? Of course not; because he is a living
negation of all Nicholas's pet theories. A nice pleasant kindly man of
the world. But oh! That terrible night-mare--that affair of Borís
Cheremshánov's. What has happened to him?
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Lisa has been to see him. He is still there. She
says he has grown terribly thin, and the Doctors fear for his life or
his reason.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Yes, he is one of the terrible sacrifices caused by
Nicholas's ideas. Why need he have been ruined? I never wished it.
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