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NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [vexed]. Of course I don't approve of it. [To Priest]
The main question for you is not Christ's divinity, or the history of
Christianity, but the Church ...
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Then how was it? They confessed their guilt, et
vous leur avez donné un démenti?[23] They did not steal them--but only
took the wood?
[
23] And you contradicted them.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [who had begun talking to the priest, turns
resolutely to Alexándra Ivánovna]. Alína, my dear, do not pursue me with
pinpricks and insinuations.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. But not at all ...
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. And if you really want to know why I can't prosecute
the peasants about the wood they needed and cut down ...
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. I should think they also need this samovár.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Well, if you want me to tell you why I can't agree
with those people being shut up in prison, and being totally ruined,
because they cut down ten trees in a forest which is considered to be
mine ...
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