The Live Corpse Part 2

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LISA. You're surprised at my asking _you_?

KAReNIN. No.... Yet, to tell you the truth--yes, I am surprised.

LISA. But you are not angry?

KAReNIN. As if I could be angry with you!

LISA. I asked you because I know you care for him.



KAReNIN. Him, and you too! You know that. I am thinking not of myself, but of you. Thank you for trusting me! I will do what I can.

LISA. I know.... I will tell you everything. To-day I went to Afremov's to find out where he was. I was told he had gone to the gipsies--which is what I feared most of all. I know he will get carried away if he is not stopped in time--and that's what has to be done.... So you'll go?

KAReNIN. Of course, and at once.

LISA. Go!... Find him, and tell him all is forgotten and I am waiting for him.

KAReNIN. But where am I to look for him?

LISA. He is with the gipsies. I went there myself.... I went as far as the porch, and wished to send in the letter, but changed my mind and decided to ask you. Here is the address.... Well, then, tell him to return: tell him nothing has happened ... all is forgotten. Do it for love of him, and for the sake of our friends.h.i.+p!

KAReNIN. I will do all in my power! [Bows, and exit].

LISA. I can't, I can't! Anything rather than ... I can't!

Enter Sasha.

SaSHA. Well, have you sent?

Lisa nods affirmatively.

SaSHA. And he agreed?

LISA. Of course.

SaSHA. But why just _him_? I don't understand.

LISA. But who else?

SaSHA. Don't you know he is in love with you?

LISA. That's dead and gone. Whom would you have had me send?... Do you think he _will_ come back?

SaSHA. I am sure of it, because ...

Enter Anna Pavlovna. Sasha is silent.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. And where is Victor Mihaylovich?

LISA. He's gone.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. Gone! How's that?

LISA. I asked him to do something for me.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. "Do something?" Another secret!

LISA. It's not a secret. I simply asked him to give a letter into Fedya's own hands.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. Fedya? What--to Theodore Vasilyevich?

LISA. Yes, to Fedya.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. I thought all relations between you were over!

LISA. I can't part from him.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. What? Are you going to begin all over again?

LISA. I wanted to, and tried ... but I can't! Anything you like--only I can't part from him!

ANNA PaVLOVNA. Then do you want to have him back again?

LISA. Yes.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. To let that skunk into the house again?

LISA. Mother, I beg you not to speak so of my husband!

ANNA PaVLOVNA. He _was_ your husband.

LISA. No, he is my husband still.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. A spendthrift, a drunkard, a rake ... and you can't part from him?

LISA. Why do you torment me! You seem to want to do it.... It's hard enough for me without that.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. I torment you! Well then, I'll go. I can't stand by and see it....

Lisa is silent.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. I see! That's just what you want--I'm in your way.... I can't live so. I can't make you out at all! It's all so new-fangled--first you make up your mind to separate, then you suddenly send for a man who is in love with you ...

LISA. Nothing of the kind.

ANNA PaVLOVNA. Karenin proposed to you ... and you send him to fetch your husband! Why? To arouse jealousy?

LISA. Mother, what you are saying is terrible! Leave me alone!

The Live Corpse Part 2

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