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PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. But what is to be done, my dear friend? Of course it
would be better if he married a girl whom you knew and liked; but since
that's impossible ... Besides it's not as if he were going to marry a
gipsy, or goodness knows who ...! Lisa Protásova is a very nice good
woman. I know her, through my niece Nelly, and know her to be a modest,
kind-hearted, affectionate and moral woman.
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. A moral woman--who makes up her mind to leave her
husband!
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. This is not like you! You're unkind and harsh! Her
husband is the kind of man of whom one says that they are their own
worst enemies; but he is an even greater enemy to his wife. He is a
weak, fallen, drunken fellow. He has squandered all his property and
hers too. She has a child.... How can you condemn her for leaving such a
man? Nor has she left him: he left her.
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. Oh, what mud! What mud! And I have to soil my hands
with it!
PRINCE ABRÉZKOV. And how about your religion?
ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA. Of course, of course! To forgive, "As we forgive them
that trespass against us." Mais, c'est plus fort que moi![17]
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