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LISA. Excuse me. I have brought you a letter from Vasíly Nikonórovich.
It is addressed to me, but he asks me to tell you.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Can it be really true?
LISA. Yes. Shall I read it?
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Please do.
LISA [reading] "I write to beg you to communicate this to Nicholas
Ivánovich. I greatly regret the error which led me openly to stray from
the Holy Orthodox Church, to which I rejoice to have now returned. I
hope you and Nicholas Ivánovich will follow the same path. Please
forgive me!"
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. They have tortured him into this, poor fellow. But
still it is terrible.
LISA. I also came to tell you that the Princess is here. She came
upstairs to me in a dreadfully excited state and is determined to see
you. She has just been to see Borís. I think you had better not see
her. What good can it do for her to see you?
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. No. Call her in. Evidently this is fated to be a day
of dreadful torture.
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