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our conversation.
ALEXANDER PETRÓVICH. Comprenez. Toujours moi partez.[40]
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40] Alexander Petróvich replies in very bad French: "I understand! I
am always to go away!"
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Wait for me out there, Alexander Petróvich, I'll
come in a minute.
Exit Alexander Petróvich.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. And what can you have in common with such a man as that?
Why is he nearer to you than your own wife? It is incomprehensible! And
where are you going?
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. I have left a letter for you. I did not want to
speak; it is too hard; but if you wish it, I will try to say it quietly.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. No, I don't understand. Why do you hate and torture your
wife, who has given up everything for you? Tell me, have I been going to
balls, or gone in for dress, or flirted? My whole life has been devoted
to the family. I nursed them all myself; I brought them up, and this
last year the whole weight of their education, and the managing our
affairs, has fallen on me....
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