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ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Why of course! Naturally! To go through it all again
would be intolerable.
KARÉNIN. This is a case where the proverb applies: "Measure ten times
before you cut once." ... It is very painful to cut into the quick.
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Of course it is; but then their marriage has long had a
rift in it, so that the tearing asunder was easier than one would have
thought. He himself sees that, after what has occurred, it is impossible
for him to return.
KARÉNIN. Why so?
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. How can you expect it, after all his horrid
goings-on--after he swore it should not happen again, and that if it did
he would renounce all rights as a husband and set her perfectly free?
KARÉNIN. Yes, but how can a woman be free when she is bound by
marriage?
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. By divorce. He promised her a divorce, and we shall
insist on it.
KARÉNIN. Yes, but Elisabeth Andréyevna loved him so....
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