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ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Ah, but her love has suffered such trials that there can
hardly be anything left of it! Drunkenness, deception, and infidelity
... Can one love such a husband?
KARÉNIN. Nothing is impossible to love.
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. You talk of love! But how can one love such a man--a
broken reed, whom one can never depend on? Don't you know what it came
to ...? [Looks round at the door, and continues hurriedly] All his
affairs in a muddle, everything pawned, nothing to pay with! Then their
uncle sends 2,000 roubles to pay the interest on their mortgaged
estates, and he takes the money and disappears. His wife is left at
home, with a sick baby, waiting for him--and at last gets a note asking
her to send him his clothes and things!
KARÉNIN. Yes, yes; I know.
Enter Lisa and Sásha.
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Well, here is Victor Miháylovich,[3] obedient to your
summons.
[3] The polite way of naming Mr. Karénin.
KARÉNIN. Yes, but I am sorry I was delayed for a few minutes.
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