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afraid of anyone.
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1] I should have considered it all very pretty.
2] I will tell him the plain fact, my dear.
[
MARY IVÁNOVNA. I don't feel the least bit hurt; don't I see it all
myself? but I don't think it so very important.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. No. You don't think so, but I tell you that, if you
let it go on, you will be beggared. Du train que cela va ...[3]
[
3] At the rate things are going.
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Come! Beggared indeed! Not with an income like
theirs.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Yes, beggared! And please don't interrupt me, my
dear! Anything a man does always seems right to you!
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Oh! I don't know. I was saying----
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. But you never do know what you are saying, because
when you men begin playing the fool, il n'y a pas de raison que ça
finisse.[4] I am only saying that if I were in your place, I should not
allow it. J'aurais mis bon ordre à toutes ces lubies.[5] What does it
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