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TÓNYA. We were at my Aunt's, sewing for the charity-bazaar.
Enter Students, Ladies, Mary Ivánovna and a Countess.
COUNTESS. Shan't we see Nicholas Ivánovich?
MARY IVÁNOVNA. No, he never leaves his study to come to our gathering.
STARKÓVSKY. Quadrille, please! [Claps his hands. The dancers take their
places and dance].
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA [approaches Mary Ivánovna] He is terribly agitated.
He has been to see Borís, and he came back and saw there was a ball, and
now he wants to go away! I went up to his door and overheard him talking
to Alexander Petróvich.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Well?
STARKÓVSKY. Rond des dames. Les cavaliers en avant![38]
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38] Starkóvsky, directing the dance, says: "Ladies form a circle.
Gentlemen advance!"
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. He has made up his mind that it is impossible for
him to live so, and he is going away.
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