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receive her, but you understand how I am placed! I am not myself at all;
and so, from old habit, I sent for you. I need your help!
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13] She inquired whether I would receive her.
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. Thank you.
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. This visit of hers, you understand, will decide the
whole matter--Victor's fate! I must either refuse my consent--but how
can I?
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. Don't you know her at all?
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. I have never seen her. But I'm afraid of her. A good
woman could not consent to leave her husband, and he a good man, too! As
a fellow-student of Victor's he used to visit us, you know, and was very
nice. But whatever he may be, quels que soient les torts qu'il a eus
vis-à-vis d'elle,[14] one must not leave one's husband. She ought to
bear her cross. What I don't understand is how Victor, with the
convictions he holds, can think of marrying a divorced woman! How
often--quite lately--he has argued warmly with Spítsin in my presence,
that divorce was incompatible with true Christianity; and now he himself
is going in for it! Si elle a pu le charmer à un tel point[15] ... I
am afraid of her! But I sent for you to know what you have to say to
it all, and instead of that I have been doing all the talking myself!
What do you think of it? Tell me your opinion. What ought I to do? You
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