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SÁSHA. How lightly you say it!
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Not lightly at all. It's not a light thing for me, as a
mother, to see my daughter divorced. Believe me it's not! But yet it is
better than ruining a young life.... No, I'm thankful to God that she
has at last made up her mind, and that it is all over.
SÁSHA. Perhaps it's not all over!
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Oh! If he only consents to a divorce....
SÁSHA. What good will that do?
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. This good; that she is young, and may again be happy.
SÁSHA. Oh mother! It's dreadful to hear you speak so! Lisa can't love
another.
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Why not, when she's free? Many a man a thousand times
better than your Fédya might turn up who would be only too happy to
marry Lisa.
SÁSHA. Mother, it's not right! I know you're thinking of Victor
Karénin....
ANNA PÁVLOVNA. And why shouldn't I? He has loved her these ten years,
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