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liar ...
MARY IVÁNOVNA. How very Christian!
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Yes, it is wrong of me, and I am to blame, but I
only want you to put yourself in my place. I mean to say that she has
turned from the truth ...
MARY IVÁNOVNA. You say, "from the truth"; but other people--the
majority--say from "an error." You see Vasíly Nikonórovich once thought
he was in error, but now has come back to the Church.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. That's impossible ----
MARY IVÁNOVNA. He has written to Lisa! She will show you the letter.
That sort of conversion is very unstable. So also in Tónya's case; I
won't even speak of that fellow Alexander Petróvich, who simply
considers it profitable!
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [getting angry] Well, no matter. I only ask you to
understand me. I still consider that truth is truth! All this hurts me
very much. And here at home I see a Christmas-tree, a ball, and hundreds
of roubles being spent while men are dying of hunger. I cannot live so.
Have pity on me, I am worried to death. Let me go! Good-bye.
MARY IVÁNOVNA. If you go, I will go with you. Or if not with you, I will
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