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absolutely necessary. And now it seems even a crime, for which I shall
have to suffer disgrace. And not only disgrace. The worst of all is that
you no longer love me! You love everyone else--the whole world,
including that drunken Alexander Petróvich--but I still love you and
cannot live without you. Why do you do it? Why? [Weeps].
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. But you don't even wish to understand my life; my
spiritual life.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. I do wish to understand it, but I can't. I see that your
Christianity has made you hate your family and hate me; but I don't
understand why!
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. You see the others do understand!
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Who? Alexander Petróvich, who gets money out of you?
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. He and others: Tónya and Vasíly Nikonórovich. But
even if nobody understood it, that would make no difference.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. Vasíly Nikonórovich has repented, and has got his living
back, and Tónya is at this very moment dancing and flirting with Styópa.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. I am sorry to hear it, but it does not turn black
into white, and it cannot change my life. Mary! You do not need me. Let
me go! I have tried to share your life and to bring into it what for me
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