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to say?
KARÉNIN. I was commissioned to find you, and to tell you ... that ...
she ... is waiting for you. She asks you to forget everything and come
back.
FÉDYA [listens in silence, gazing into Karénin's eyes] Still, I don't
understand why you ...
KARÉNIN. Elisabeth Andréyevna sent for me, and asked me ...
FÉDYA. So ...
KARÉNIN. But I ask you, not so much in your wife's name as from
myself.... Come home!
FÉDYA. You are a better man than I. (What nonsense! It is easy enough to
be better than I) ... I am a scoundrel, and you are a good--yes, a good
man.... And that is the very reason why I won't alter my decision....
No! Not on that account either--but simply because I can't and won't....
How could I return?
KARÉNIN. Let us go to my rooms now, and I'll tell her that you will
return to-morrow.
FÉDYA. And to-morrow, what?... I shall still be I, and she--she. [Goes
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