The Live Corpse


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have spoken with Victor?  
[14] However he may have wronged her.  
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15] If she has been able to charm him to such a degree ...  
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. I have: and I think he loves her. He has grown used to  
loving her; and love has got a great hold on him. He is a man who takes  
things slowly but firmly. What has once entered his heart will never  
leave it again; and he will never love anyone but her; and he can never  
be happy without her, or with anyone else.  
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. And how willingly Várya Kazántseva would have  
married  
him! What a girl she is, and how she loves him!  
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV [smiling]. C'est compter sans son hôte![16] That is  
quite out of the question now. I think it's best to submit, and help him  
to get married.  
[16] That's reckoning without your host!  
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. To a divorced woman--and have him meet his wife's  
husband?... I can't think how you can speak of it so calmly. Is she a  
woman a mother could wish to see as the wife of her only son--and such a  
son?  
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