The Live Corpse


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MÁSHA. All right, all right! It's always you. She is an angel! What  
else!  
FÉDYA. This--that you are a good, dear girlie--and that I love you, and  
if I live I shall ruin you.  
MÁSHA. That's not your business. I know quite well what will ruin me.  
FÉDYA [sighs] But above all, above all ... What use is my life? Don't I  
know that I am a lost good-for-nothing? I am a burden to myself and to  
everybody--as your father said. I'm worthless....  
MÁSHA. What rubbish! I shall stick to you. I've stuck to you already,  
and there's an end of it! As to your leading a bad life, drinking and  
going on the spree--well, you're a living soul! Give it up, and have  
done with it!  
FÉDYA. That's easily said.  
MÁSHA. Well, then, do it.  
FÉDYA. Yes, when I look at you I feel as if I could really do anything.  
MÁSHA. And so you shall! Yes, you'll do it! [Sees the letter] What's  
that? You've written to them? What have you written?  
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