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with every peasant and let them cut down the trees, and give them money
for vódka, and abandon our own families?
PRIEST. I don't know that ...
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. He says it is Christianity. You are a priest of the
Orthodox Greek Church, and therefore you must know and must say whether
Christianity bids us encourage robbery.
PRIEST. But I ...
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Or else, why are you a priest, and why do you wear
long hair and a cassock?
PRIEST. But we are not asked ...
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Not asked, indeed! Why, I am asking you! He told me
yesterday that the Gospels say, "Give to him that asketh of thee." But
then in what sense is that meant?
PRIEST. In its plain sense, I suppose.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. And I think not in the plain sense; we have always
been taught that everybody's position is appointed by God.
PRIEST. Of course, but yet ...
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