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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Live Corpse + +Author: Leo Tolstoy + +Translator: Louise Maude + Aylmer Maude + +Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook #26664] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIVE CORPSE *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div id="tnote"><p class="center" style="font-weight: bold;">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p>This e-book belongs to Tolstoy's <cite>Plays (Complete Edition)</cite>. +The front matter, including the table of contents, can be found in a +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26660/26660-h/26660-h.htm">separate e-book</a>; +it links to the other plays in the collection.</p> +<hr/> +<p>Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as +possible; changes (corrections of spelling and punctuation) made to +the original text are marked <ins title="transcriber's note">like this</ins>. +The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text.</p></div> + +<h1 style="line-height: 2em; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 120px;"><big style="font-size: 1.3em;">THE LIVE CORPSE</big><br/> + +<i>A PLAY IN SIX ACTS</i></h1> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231">231</a></span></p> +<h2>CHARACTERS</h2> + + +<p><span class="speaker">THEODORE VASÍLYEVICH PROTÁSOV (FÉDYA).</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ELISABETH ANDRÉYEVNA PROTÁSOVA (LISA).</span> <i>His <ins title="wife">wife.</ins></i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÍSHA.</span> <i>Their son.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> <i>Lisa's mother.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> <i>Lisa's younger, unmarried sister.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR MIHÁYLOVICH KARÉNIN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA KARÉNINA.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE SERGIUS DMÍTRIEVICH ABRÉZKOV.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> <i>A gipsy girl.</i></p> + +<table class="together" summary="Másha's parents."> +<tr> +<td><span class="speaker">IVÁN MAKÁROVICH.</span> <i>An old gipsy man.</i></td> +<td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid black; border-left: none; padding-left: 4px;"> </td> +<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; padding-left: 4px;"> </td> +<td rowspan="2" style="padding-left: 2px;"><i>Másha's parents.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td style="padding-right: 2px;"><span class="speaker">NASTÁSIA IVÁNOVNA.</span> <i>An old gipsy woman.</i></td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="speaker">OFFICER.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MUSICIAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FIRST GIPSY MAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SECOND GIPSY MAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY WOMAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY CHOIR.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MICHAEL ALEXÁNDROVICH AFRÉMOV.</span></p> + +<table class="together" summary="Fédya's boon companions."> +<tr> +<td><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span></td> +<td rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid black; border-left: none; padding-left: 4px;"> </td> +<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; padding-left: 4px;"> </td> +<td rowspan="4" style="padding-left: 2px;"><i>Fédya's boon companions.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td rowspan="2" style="padding-right: 2px;"><span class="speaker">BUTKÉVICH.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: 0px solid white;"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH ALEXÁNDROV.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VOZNESÉNSKY.</span> <i>Karénin's secretary.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> <i>An artist.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">WAITER IN THE PRIVATE ROOM AT THE RESTAURANT.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">WAITER IN A LOW-CLASS RESTAURANT.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MANAGER OF THE SAME.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">POLICEMAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232">232</a></span><span class="speaker">INVESTIGATING MAGISTRATE.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÉLNIKOV.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">CLERK.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">USHER.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> <i>A lawyer.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LADY.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANOTHER OFFICER.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ATTENDANT AT LAW COURTS.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker"><ins title="PROTÁSOVS'">THE PROTÁSOVS'</ins> NURSE.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker"><ins title="PROTÁSOVS'">THE PROTÁSOVS'</ins> MAID.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV'S FOOTMAN.</span></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN'S FOOTMAN.</span></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233">233</a></span></p> +<p class="center" style="font-size: x-large; margin-top: 0em;">THE LIVE CORPSE</p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<h2><a name="act1">ACT I</a></h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<div class="scene"><p>Protásov's<a name="FNanchor_1_1" href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> flat in Moscow. The scene represents a small +dining-room.</p> + +<p>Anna Pávlovna, a stout grey-haired lady, tightly laced, is +sitting alone at the tea-table on which is a samovár. Enter +nurse, carrying a teapot.</p></div> + +<p><span class="speaker">NURSE.</span> May I have a little hot water, ma'am?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes. How's Baby?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NURSE.</span> He's restless.… There's nothing worse than +for a lady to nurse her baby herself! She has her +troubles, and the child must suffer. What can her milk +be like, when she lies awake crying all night?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> But she seems quieter now.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NURSE.</span> Quiet, indeed! It makes one ill to see her. +She's been writing something, and crying.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Sásha.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA</span> [<i>to Nurse</i>] Lisa is looking for you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NURSE.</span> I'm coming, I'm coming. [<i>Exit</i>].</p> + +<p>ANNA PÁVLOVNA. Nurse says she keeps on crying.… +Why can't she control herself?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Well really, mother, you are amazing!… A +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234">234</a></span>woman has left her husband, her child's father, and you +expect her to be calm!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, not calm … But what's done +is done! If I, her mother, not only allowed my daughter +to leave her husband, but am even glad she has done it, +that shows he deserved it. One ought to rejoice, not to +grieve, at the chance of freeing oneself from such a bad +man!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Mother, why say such things? You know it's +not true! He's not bad—but on the contrary, he's a +wonderful man, in spite of his weaknesses.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes indeed, a “wonderful” man—as +soon as he has money in his pocket—his own or other +people's.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Mother! He has never taken other people's!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes he has—his wife's! Where's the +difference?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> But he gave all his property to his wife!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Of course, when he knew that otherwise +he was sure to squander it all!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Squander or not, I only know that a wife must +not separate from her husband, especially from such a +one as Fédya.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Then, in your opinion she ought to +wait till he has squandered everything, and brought his +gipsy mistresses into the house?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> He has no mistresses!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> That's the misfortune—he seems to +have bewitched you all! But not me—no! He won't +come over me! I see through him, and he knows it. +Had I been in Lisa's place I should have left him a +year ago.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> How lightly you say it!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> 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 +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235">235</a></span>young life.… No, I'm thankful to God that she has +at last made up her mind, and that it is all over.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Perhaps it's not all over!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Oh! If he only consents to a divorce.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> What good will that do?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> This good; that she is young, and may +again be happy.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Oh mother! It's dreadful to hear you speak so! +Lisa can't love another.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Mother, it's not right! I know you're thinking +of Victor Karénin.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> And why shouldn't I? He has loved +her these ten years, and she loves him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Yes, but not as a husband! They have been +friends from childhood.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> We know those friendships! If only +the obstacles were out of the way!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Maid.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> What is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MAID.</span> The mistress has sent the porter with a note for +Mr. Karénin.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> What mistress?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MAID.</span> <em>Our</em> mistress—Mrs. Protásova.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MAID.</span> Mr. Karénin has sent back word that he will +come round at once.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>surprised</i>] We were just speaking of +him! Only I can't think why … [<i>to Sásha</i>] Do you +know?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Perhaps I do, and perhaps I don't!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> You always have secrets!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Lisa will tell you herself when she comes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>shakes her head. To Maid</i>] The +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236">236</a></span>samovár must be made to boil again. Take it, Dounyásha.</p> + +<p><i>Maid takes samovár, and exit.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>to Sásha who has risen and is going out</i>] +It turns out just as I told you! She sent for him at +once.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> She may have sent for him for quite a different +reason.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> What for, then?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Now, at this moment, Karénin is the same to +her as old Nurse Trífonovna.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, you'll see.… Don't I know +her? She has sent for him to comfort her.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Oh mother, how little you know her, to be able +to suppose …!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, we'll see!… And I am very, +very glad.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> We <em>shall</em> see! [<i>Exit, humming a tune</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>alone, shakes her head and mutters</i>] It's +all right, it's all right!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Maid.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MAID.</span> Mr. Karénin has come.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well then, show him in, and tell your +mistress.</p> + +<p><i>Maid exit by inner door. Enter Karénin, who bows to +Anna Pávlovna.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Your daughter wrote to me to come. I +meant to come and see you to-night, anyhow. So I was +very pleased … Is Elisabeth Andréyevna<a name="FNanchor_2_2" href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> well?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes, she is well, but Baby is a bit restless. +She will be here directly. [<i>In a melancholy voice</i>] +Ah yes! It is a sad time.… But you know all about +it, don't you?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I do. I was here, you know, the day before +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237">237</a></span>yesterday, when his letter came. But is it possible that +everything is irrevocably settled?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Why of course! Naturally! To go +through it all again would be intolerable.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> This is a case where the proverb applies: +“Measure ten times before you cut once.” … It is very +painful to cut into the quick.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Of course it is; but then their marriage +has long had a rift in it, so that the tearing asunder was +easier than one would have thought. He himself sees +that, after what has occurred, it is impossible for him to +return.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Why so?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> How can you expect it, after all his +horrid goings-on—after he swore it should not happen +again, and that if it did he would renounce all rights as +a husband and set her perfectly free?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, but how can a woman be free when she +is bound by marriage?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> By divorce. He promised her a +divorce, and we shall insist on it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, but Elisabeth Andréyevna loved him +so.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Ah, but her love has suffered such +trials that there can hardly be anything left of it! +Drunkenness, deception, and infidelity … Can one +love such a husband?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Nothing is impossible to love.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> You talk of love! But how can one +love such a man—a broken reed, whom one can never +depend on? Don't you know what it came to …? +[<i>Looks round at the door, and continues hurriedly</i>] All his +affairs in a muddle, everything pawned, nothing to pay +with! Then their uncle sends 2,000 roubles to pay the +interest on their mortgaged estates, and he takes the +money and disappears. His wife is left at home, with a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238">238</a></span>sick baby, waiting for him—and at last gets a note asking +her to send him his clothes and things!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, yes; I know.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Lisa and Sásha.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, here is Victor Miháylovich,<a name="FNanchor_3_3" href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> +obedient to your summons.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, but I am sorry I was delayed for a few +minutes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Thank you. I have a great favour to ask of you, +and I have no one to turn to but you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Anything in my power …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> You know all about …?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I do.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well then, I shall leave you [<i>To +Sásha</i>] Come, we'll leave them alone. [<i>Exit with Sásha</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes, he wrote to me saying that he considers +everything at an end … [<i>struggling with her tears</i>] … +and I was hurt!… and so … In a word, I consented +to break—I answered, accepting his renunciation.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> And now you repent?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes. I feel that I was wrong, and that I cannot +do it. Anything is better than to be separated from him. +In short—I want you to give him this letter.… Please, +Victor, give him the letter, and tell him … and bring +him back!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>surprised</i>] Yes, but how?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Tell him I ask him to forget everything, and to +return. I might simply send the letter, but I know him: +his first impulse, as always, will be the right one—but +then someone will influence him, and he'll change his +mind and not do what he really wants to.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I will do what I can.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> You're surprised at my asking <em>you</em>?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> No.… Yet, to tell you the truth—yes, I +am surprised.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239">239</a></span> +<span class="speaker">LISA.</span> But you are not angry?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> As if I could be angry with you!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I asked you because I know you care for him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I know.… I will tell you everything. To-day +I went to Afrémov'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?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Of course, and at once.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Go!… Find him, and tell him all is forgotten +and I am waiting for him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> But where am I to look for him?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> 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 friendship!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I will do all in my power! [<i>Bows, and exit</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I can't, I can't! Anything rather than <ins title=". .">…</ins> +I can't!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Sásha.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Well, have you sent?</p> + +<p><i>Lisa nods affirmatively.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> And he agreed?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Of course.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> But why just <em>him</em>? I don't understand.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> But who else?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Don't you know he is in love with you?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> That's dead and gone. Whom would you have +had me send?… Do you think he <em>will</em> come back?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> I am sure of it, because …</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240">240</a></span> +<i>Enter Anna Pávlovna. Sásha is silent.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> And where is Victor Miháylovich?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> He's gone.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Gone! How's that?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I asked him to do something for me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> “Do something?” Another secret!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> It's not a secret. I simply asked him to give a +letter into Fédya's own hands.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Fédya? What—to Theodore Vasílyevich?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes, to Fédya.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> I thought all relations between you +were over!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I can't part from him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> What? Are you going to begin all +over again?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I wanted to, and tried … but I can't! Anything +you like—only I can't part from him!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Then do you want to have him back +again?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> To let that skunk into the house +again?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Mother, I beg you not to speak so of my husband!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> He <em>was</em> your husband.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> No, he is my husband still.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> A spendthrift, a drunkard, a rake … +and you can't part from him?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Why do you torment me! You seem to want to +do it.… It's hard enough for me without that.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> I torment you! Well then, I'll go. I +can't stand by and see it.…</p> + +<p><i>Lisa is silent.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> 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 +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241">241</a></span>your mind to separate, then you suddenly send for a man +who is in love with you …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Nothing of the kind.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Karénin proposed to you … and you +send him to fetch your husband! Why? To arouse +jealousy?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Mother, what you are saying is terrible! Leave +me alone!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Very well! Turn your mother out of +the house, and let in your rake of a husband!… Yes, I +will not remain here! Good-bye, then—I leave you to +your fate; you can do as you please! [<i>Exit slamming +door</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>drops into a chair</i>] That's the last straw!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Never mind.… It will be all right; we'll +soon pacify Mother.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>passing through</i>] <ins title="Dunyásha">Dounyásha</ins>! My +trunk!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Mother, listen!… [<i>follows her out with a +significant glance to Lisa</i>].</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<p class="scene">A room in the gipsies' house. The choir is singing “Kanavela.” +Fédya in his shirt-sleeves is lying prone on the sofa. +Afrémov sits astride a chair in front of the leader of the choir. +An officer sits at a table, on which are bottles of champagne and +glasses. A musician is taking notes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Fédya, are you asleep?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>rising</i>] Don't talk.… Now let's have “Not at +Eve.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242">242</a></span> +<span class="speaker">GIPSY LEADER.</span> That won't do, Theodore Vasílyevich! +Let Másha sing a solo now.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> All right! And then, “Not at Eve.” [<i>Lies +down again</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">OFFICER.</span> Sing “Fateful Hour.”</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY.</span> All agreed?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Go on!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">OFFICER</span> [<i>to musician</i>] Have you taken it down?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MUSICIAN.</span> Quite impossible! It's different every time.… +And the scale is somehow different. Look here! +[<i>Beckons to a gipsy woman who is looking on</i>] Is this right? +[<i>Hums</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY.</span> That's it, that's splendid!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> He'll never get it; and if he does take it down +and shoves it into an opera, he'll only spoil it!… Now, +Másha, start off! Let's have “Fateful Hour”—take your +guitar. [<i>Rises, sits down opposite her, and gazes into her +eyes</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Másha sings.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> That's good too! Másha, you're a brick!… +Now then, “Not at Eve”!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> No, wait! First, my burial song.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">OFFICER.</span> Why <em>burial</em>?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Because, when I'm dead … you know, dead +and laid in my coffin, the gipsies will come (you know I +shall leave instructions with my wife) and they will begin +to sing “I Walked a Mile” … and then I'll jump out of +my coffin!… Do you understand? [<i>To the musician</i>] You +just write this down. [<i>To the gipsies</i>] Well, rattle along!</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> What do you think of that?… Now then, +“My Brave Lads”!</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing.</i></p> + +<p><i>Afrémov gesticulates and dances. The gipsies smile and +continue singing, clapping their hands. Afrémov sits down and +the song ends.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243">243</a></span> +<span class="speaker">GIPSIES.</span> Bravo! Michael Andréyevich!<a name="FNanchor_4_4" href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> He's a real +gipsy!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, <em>now</em> “Not at Eve”!</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> That's it! It's wonderful … And where does +it all happen—all that this music expresses? Ah, it's +fine!… And how is it man can reach such ecstasy, and +cannot keep it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MUSICIAN</span> [<i>taking notes</i>] Yes, it's most original.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Not original—but the real thing!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV</span> [<i>to gipsies</i>] Well, have a rest now. +[<i>Takes the guitar and sits down beside Kátya, one of the +gipsies</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MUSICIAN.</span> It's really simple, except the rhythm.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>waves his hand, goes to Másha, and sits down on +sofa beside her</i>] Oh, Másha, Másha! How you do turn me +inside-out!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> And how about what I asked you for?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What? Money?… [<i>Takes some out of his +trouser-pocket</i>] Here, take it!</p> + +<p><i>Másha laughs, takes it, and hides it in her bosom.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>to the gipsies</i>] Who can make it out? She opens +heaven for me, and then asks for money to buy scents +with! [<i>To Másha</i>] Why, you don't in the least understand +what you're doing!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Not understand indeed! I understand that +when I am in love, I try to please my man, and sing all +the better.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Do you love me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Looks like it!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Wonderful! [<i>Kisses her</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Exeunt most of the gipsies. Some couples remain: Fédya +with Másha, Afrémov with Kátya, and the officer with Gásha. +The musician writes. A gipsy man strums a valse tune on the +guitar.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244">244</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> But I'm married, and your choir won't allow +it.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> The choir is one thing, one's heart's another! +I love those I love, and hate those I hate.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Ah! This is good! Isn't it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Of course it's good—we've jolly visitors, and +are all merry.</p> + +<p><i>Enter gipsy man.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY</span> [<i>to Fédya</i>] A gentleman is asking for you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What gentleman?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">GIPSY.</span> I don't know.… Well dressed, wears a sable +overcoat—</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> A swell? Well, ask him in. [<i>Exit Gipsy</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Who has come to see you here?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> The devil knows! Who can want me?</p> + +<p><i>Enter Karénin. Looks round.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Ah, Victor! I never expected <em>you</em>!… Take +off your coat!… What wind has blown you here? +Come, sit down and listen to “Not at Eve.”</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Je voudrais vous parler sans témoins.</i><a name="FNanchor_5_5" href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What about?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Je viens de chez vous. Votre femme m'a chargé +de cette lettre et puis …</i><a name="FNanchor_6_6" href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>takes letter, reads, frowns, then smiles affectionately</i>] +I say, Karénin, of course you know what is in this +letter?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I know … and I want to say …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Wait, wait a bit! Please don't imagine that I +am drunk and my words irresponsible.… I mean, +that I am irresponsible! I am drunk, but in this matter +I see quite clearly.… Well, what were you commissioned +to say?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I was commissioned to find you, and to tell +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245">245</a></span>you … that … she … is waiting for you. She +asks you to forget everything and come back.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>listens in silence, gazing into Karénin's eyes</i>] Still, +I don't understand why <em>you</em> …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Elisabeth Andréyevna sent for me, and asked +me …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> So …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> But I ask you, not so much in your wife's +name as from myself.… Come home!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You are a better man than I. (What nonsense! +It is easy enough to be better than I) … I am a +scoundrel, and you are a good—yes, a good man.… +And that is the very reason why I won't alter my +decision.… No! Not on that account either—but +simply because I can't and won't.… How could I +return?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Let us go to my rooms now, and I'll tell her +that you will return to-morrow.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> And to-morrow, what?… I shall still be I, +and she—she. [<i>Goes to the table and drinks</i>] It's best to +have the tooth out at one go.… Didn't I say that if I +broke my word she was to throw me over? Well, I have +broken it, and that's the end of it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> For you, but not for her!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> It is extraordinary that <em>you</em> should take pains to +prevent our marriage being broken up!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>is about to speak, but Másha comes up</i>] …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>interrupting him</i>] Just hear her sing “The +Flax”!… Másha!</p> + +<p><i>The gipsies re-enter.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA</span> [<i>whispers</i>] An ovation, eh?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>laughs</i>] An ovation!… “Victor, my Lord! +Son of Michael!” …</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing a song of greeting and laudation.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>listens in confusion then asks</i>] How much shall +I give them?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246">246</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, give them twenty-five roubles.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p> + +<p><i>Karénin gives the money.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Splendid! And now, “The Flax!”</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>looks round</i>] Karénin's bunked!… Well, +devil take him!</p> + +<p><i>Gipsy group breaks up.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>sits down by Másha</i>] Do you know who that was?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> I heard his name.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> He's an excellent fellow! He came to take +me home to my wife. She loves a fool like me, and see +what I am doing here …!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Well, and it's wrong! You ought to go back +to her.… You ought to pity her.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You think I ought to? Well, I think I ought +not.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Of course, if you don't love her you need not. +Only love counts.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> And how do you know that?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Seems I do!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, kiss me then!… Now, let's have +“The Flax” once more, and then finish up.</p> + +<p><i>Gipsies sing.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Ah, how good it is! If only one hadn't to +wake up!… If one could die so!</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247">247</a></span></p> +<h2>ACT II</h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<p class="scene">Two weeks have passed since <a href="#act1"><ins title="Act 1">Act I</ins></a>. Anna Pávlovna and +Karénin are discovered sitting in Lisa's dining-room. Enter +Sásha.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Well, what news?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> The doctor says there is no danger at present, +as long as he does not catch cold.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes, but Lisa is quite worn out.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> He says it's false croup, and a very mild attack. +[<i>Points to a basket</i>]. What's that?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Grapes. Victor brought them.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Won't you have some?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Yes, she likes grapes. She has become terribly +nervous.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Naturally—after not sleeping for two nights, +and not eating.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> And how about you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> That's quite another matter.</p> + +<p><i>Enter doctor and Lisa.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR</span> [<i>impressively</i>] Yes, that's it. Change it every +half-hour if he's awake, but if he's asleep don't disturb +him. You need not paint the throat. The room must +be kept at its present temperature …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> But if he again begins to choke?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR.</span> He probably won't, but if he should, use the +spray. And give him the powders: one in the morning +and the other at night. I will give you the prescription now.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248">248</a></span> +<span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Have a cup of tea, doctor?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR.</span> No thanks.… My patients are expecting +me.</p> + +<p><i>Sits down to the table. Sásha brings him paper and ink.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> So you're sure it is not croup?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR</span> [<i>smiling</i>] Perfectly certain!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>to Lisa</i>] And now have some tea, or, better +still, go and lie down!… Just see what you look +like.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Oh, now I am alive again. Thank you, you are a +true friend! [<i>Presses his hand. Sásha moves away angrily</i>] +I am so grateful to you, dear friend! At such times one +recog …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> What have I done? There's really no cause +at all to thank me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> And who stopped up all night? Who fetched the +very best doctor?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I am already fully rewarded by the fact that +Mísha is out of danger; and above all by your kindness.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>presses his hand again and laughs, showing him some +money in her hand</i>] That's for the doctor; but I never +know how to give it.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Neither do I.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Don't know what?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> How to give money to a doctor.… He has +saved more than my life, and I give him money! It +seems so unpleasant.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Let me give it. I know how. It's +quite simple.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">DOCTOR</span> [<i>rises and hands the prescription to Lisa</i>] These +powders are to be well mixed in a tablespoonful of boiled +water … [<i>goes on talking</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Karénin sits at the table drinking tea; Sásha and Anna +Pávlovna come forward.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> I can't bear the way they go on! It's just as if +she were in love with him.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249">249</a></span> +<span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, can it be wondered at?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> It's disgusting!</p> + +<p><i>Doctor takes leave of everybody, and exit. Anna Pávlovna +goes with him.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>to Karénin</i>] He's so sweet now! As soon as even +he was a little better he at once began to smile and crow. +I must go to him, but I don't like leaving you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> You had better have a cup of tea, and eat +something.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I don't want anything now. I am so happy after +all that anxiety!… [<i>Sobs</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> There! You see how worn out you are!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I'm so happy!… Would you like to have a +look at him?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Of course.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Then come with me. [<i>Exeunt</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>returning to Sásha</i>] What are you looking +so glum about?… I gave him the money quite +well, and he took it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> It's disgusting! She has taken him with her to +the nursery. It's just as if he were her <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">fiancé</i> or her +husband.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Whatever does it matter to you? Why +need you get excited about it? Did you mean to marry +him yourself?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> I? Marry that pikestaff? I'd rather marry I +don't know whom, than him! Such a thing never entered +my head.… I am only disgusted that, after Fédya, +Lisa can be so attracted by a stranger.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Not a stranger, but an old playfellow!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Don't I see by their smiles and looks that they +are in love?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, what is there to be surprised at +in that? He shares her anxiety about her baby, shows +sympathy and helps her … and she feels grateful. +Besides, why should she not love and marry Victor?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250">250</a></span> +<span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> That would be disgusting—disgusting.…</p> + +<p><i>Enter Karénin and Lisa. Karénin silently takes leave. +Sásha goes of angrily.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>to Anna Pávlovna</i>] What's the matter with her?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> I really don't know.</p> + +<p><i>Lisa sighs, and is silent.</i></p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<p class="scene">Afrémov's sitting-room. Glasses of wine on the table. +Afrémov, <ins title="Fédya">Fédya,</ins> Stákhov (shaggy), Butkévich (close-shaven), and +Korotkóv (a tuft-hunter).</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> And I tell you that he'll be out of the running! +La Belle Bois is the best horse in Europe.… +Will you bet?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> Don't, my dear fellow.… You know very +well that nobody believes you, or will bet with you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> I tell you your Cartouche won't be in it!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Stop quarrelling! Let me settle it … ask +Fédya—he'll give you the right tip.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Both horses are good. All depends on the +jockey.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> Gúsev is a rascal, and needs a firm hand on +him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV</span> [<i>shouts</i>] No!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Wait a bit—I'll settle your differences.… +Who won the Moscow Derby?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> He did—but what of that? It was only +chance. If Crakus had not fallen ill.… [<i>Enter footman</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> What is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> A lady has come, and is asking for Mr. +Protásov.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251">251</a></span> +<span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> What is she like? A real lady?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> I don't know her name, but she's a real lady.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Fédya! a lady to see you!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>startled</i>] Who is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> He doesn't know.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> Shall I ask her into the dining-room?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No, wait.… I'll go myself and see.</p> + +<p><i>Exeunt Fédya and footman.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> Who can it be? It must be Másha.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> Which Másha?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> The gipsy. She's in love with him, like a +cat.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> What a darling she is …! And how she +sings!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Charming! Tanyúsha and she! They sang +with Peter yesterday.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> What a lucky fellow that is!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Why? Because the girls are all sweet on him? +Not much luck in that!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> I can't bear gipsies—nothing refined about +them.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">BUTKÉVICH.</span> No, you can't say that!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> I'd give the whole lot for one French +woman!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Yes, we know you—and your æsthetics!… +I'll go and see who it is. [<i>Exit</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> If it's Másha, bring her in here! We'll make +her sing.… No, the gipsies aren't what they used to +be. Tanyúsha, now—by Gad!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">BUTKÉVICH.</span> And I believe they're just the same.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> Just the same? When instead of their own +pieces they sing empty drawing-room songs?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">BUTKÉVICH.</span> Some drawing-room songs are very good.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KOROTKÓV.</span> Will you bet I don't get them to sing a +drawing-room song so that you won't know it from one +of their own?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252">252</a></span> +<span class="speaker">STÁKHOV.</span> Korotkóv always wants to bet!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Afrémov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> I say, you fellows, it's not Másha—and there's +no room he can ask her into but this. Let us clear out +to the billiard room. [<i>Exeunt</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Fédya and Sásha.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA</span> [<i>confused</i>] Fédya, forgive me if it's unpleasant—but +for God's sake hear me!… [<i>Her voice trembles</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Fédya walks up and down the room. Sásha sits down, and +follows him with her eyes.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Fédya! Come home!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Just listen to me, Sásha … I quite understand +you, Sásha dear, and in your place I should do the same—I +should try to find some way to bring back the old +state of affairs. But if you were me, if—strange as it +sounds—you, dear sensitive girl, were in my place … +you would certainly have done as I did, and have gone +away and ceased to spoil someone else's life.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Spoil? How? As if Lisa could live without you!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Oh, Sásha dear! Dear heart!… She can, +she can! And she will yet be happy—far happier than +with me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Never!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> It seems so to you [<i>Takes her hand</i>] … But +that's not the point. The chief thing is, that <em>I</em> can't!… +You know, one folds a piece of thick paper this way and +that a hundred times and still it holds together; but +fold it once more, and it comes in half.… So it was +with Lisa and me. It hurts me too much to look into +her eyes—and she feels the same, believe me!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> No, no!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You say “No,” but you yourself know that it +is “Yes”!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> I can only judge by myself. If I were in her +place, and you answered as you are doing, it would be +dreadful!</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253">253</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, for <em>you</em> … [<i>Pause; both are agitated</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA</span> [<i>rises</i>] Must things really remain so?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I suppose …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Fédya come back!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Thank you, Sásha dear! You will always +remain a precious memory to me.… But good-bye, +dear heart!… Let me kiss you. [<i>Kisses her forehead</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA</span> [<i>agitated</i>] No, I don't say good-bye, and I don't +believe, and won't believe … Fédya!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well then, listen! But give me your word +that what I tell you, you won't repeat to anybody—do +you promise?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Of course!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well then, listen, Sásha.… It's true that I +am her husband and the father of her child, but I am—superfluous! +Wait, wait—don't reply.… You think +I'm jealous? Not at all! In the first place, I have no +right; secondly, I have no cause. Victor Karénin is her +old friend and mine too. He loves her, and she him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> No!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> She does—as an honest, moral woman can, who +does not allow herself to love anyone but her husband. +But she loves, and will love him when this obstacle +[<i>points to himself</i>] is removed; and I will remove it, and +they shall be happy! [<i>His voice trembles</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Fédya, don't talk like that!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Why, you know very well that it's true! And +I shall be glad of their happiness, and it's the best I can +do. I shall not return, but shall give them their +freedom.… Tell them so.… Don't answer—and +good-bye!</p> + +<p><i>Kisses her on the forehead, and opens the door for her.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">SÁSHA.</span> Fédya—you are wonderful!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Good-bye, good-bye!… [<i>Exit Sásha</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, yes.… That's the thing … that's the +thing!… [<i>Rings</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254">254</a></span> +<i>Enter footman.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Call your master.… [<i>Exit footman</i>].… And +it's true—it's true.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Afrémov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Come along!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> Have you settled matters?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Splendidly! [<i>Sings</i>]</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width: 16em;">“And she swore by ev'ry power …”</div> + +<p>Splendidly!… Where are they all?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">AFRÉMOV.</span> They're playing billiards.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> That's right—we will too [<i>Sings</i>]</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width: 13em;">“Rest here, just an hour …”</div> + +<p>Come along!</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255">255</a></span></p> +<h2>ACT III</h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<div class="scene"> +<p>Prince Abrézkov, a sixty-year-old bachelor with moustaches, +a retired army man, elegant, very dignified and melancholy-looking. +Anna Dmítrievna Karénina (Victor's mother), a fifty-year-old +“grande dame” who tries to appear younger, and +intersperses her remarks with French expressions.</p> + +<p>Anna Dmítrievna's sitting-room, furnished with expensive +simplicity, and filled with souvenirs.</p> + +<p>Anna Dmítrievna is writing. Footman enters.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> Prince Abrézkov …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Yes, certainly … [<i>Turns round and +touches herself up before the looking-glass</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Abrézkov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">J'espère que je ne force pas la consigne.…</i><a name="FNanchor_8_8" href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> +[<i>Kisses her hand</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> You know that <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">vous êtes toujours le +bienvenu</i><a name="FNanchor_9_9" href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>—and to-day especially! You got my note?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I did, and this is my answer.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Ah, my friend! I begin quite to +despair. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Il est positivement ensorcelé!</i><a name="FNanchor_10_10" href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> I never before +knew him so insistent, so obstinate, so pitiless, and so +indifferent to me. He has quite changed since that +woman dismissed her husband!</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256">256</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> What are the facts? How do matters +actually stand?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> He wants to marry her come what +may.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> And how about the husband?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> He agrees to a divorce.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Dear me!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> And he, Victor, lends himself to it, +with all the abominations—lawyers, proofs of guilt—<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tout +ça est dégoutant</i>!<a name="FNanchor_11_11" href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> And it doesn't seem to repel him. I +don't understand him—he was always so sensitive, so +reserved …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> He is in love! Ah, when a man +really loves …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Yes, but how is it that in our day +love could be pure—could be a loving friendship, lasting +through life? That kind of love I understand and value.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Nowadays the young generation no +longer contents itself with those ideal relations. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La possession +de l'âme ne leur suffit plus.</i><a name="FNanchor_12_12" href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> It can't be helped<ins title="!..">!…</ins> +What can one do with him?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> You must not say that of <em>him</em>—but +it's as if he were under a spell. It's just as if he were +someone else.… You know, I called on her. He +begged me so. I went there, did not find her in, and +left my card. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Elle m'a fait demander si je ne pourrais la +recevoir</i>;<a name="FNanchor_13_13" href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> and to-day [<i>looks at the clock</i>] at two o'clock, +that is in a few minutes' time, she will be here. I +promised Victor I would receive her, but you understand +how I am placed! I am not myself at all; and so, from +old habit, I sent for you. I need your help!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Thank you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> This visit of hers, you understand, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257">257</a></span>will decide the whole matter—Victor's fate! I must +either refuse my consent—but how can I?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Don't you know her at all?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I have never seen her. But I'm +afraid of her. A good woman could not consent to leave +her husband, and he a good man, too! As a fellow-student +of Victor's he used to visit us, you know, and +was very nice. But whatever he may be, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><ins title="quels-que">quels que</ins> soient les +torts qu'il a eu vis-à-vis d'elle</i>,<a name="FNanchor_14_14" href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> one must not leave one's +husband. She ought to bear her cross. What I don't +understand is how Victor, with the convictions he holds, +can think of marrying a divorced woman! How often—quite +lately—he has argued warmly with Spítsin in my +presence, that divorce was incompatible with true Christianity; +and now he himself is going in for it! <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Si elle a +pu le charmer à un tel point</i><a name="FNanchor_15_15" href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> … I am afraid of her! But +I sent for you to know what <em>you</em> have to say to it all, and +instead of that I have been doing all the talking myself! +What do you think of it? Tell me your opinion. What +ought I to do? You have spoken with Victor?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> And how willingly Várya Kazántseva +would have married him! What a girl she is, and how +she loves him!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV</span> [<i>smiling</i>]. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C'est compter sans son hôte!</i><a name="FNanchor_16_16" href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> +That is quite out of the question now. I think it's best to +submit, and help him to get married.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258">258</a></span> +<span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> 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?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> A moral woman—who makes up her +mind to leave her husband!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Oh, what mud! What mud! And I +have to soil my hands with it!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> And how about your religion?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Of course, of course! To forgive, +“As we forgive them that trespass against us.” <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mais, +c'est plus fort <ins title="qui">que</ins> moi!</i><ins title="footnote marker missing in original"><a name="FNanchor_17_17" href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a></ins></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> How could she live with such a man? +If she had not loved anyone else she would have had to +leave him. She would have had to, for her child's sake. +The husband himself—an intelligent kind-hearted man +when he is in his senses—advises her to do it.…</p> + +<p><i>Enter Victor, who kisses his mother's hand and greets Prince +Abrézkov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259">259</a></span> +<span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> Mother, I have come to say this: Elisabeth +Andréyevna will be here in a minute, and I beg, I +implore you—if you still refuse your consent to my +marriage …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA</span> [<i>interrupting him</i>] Of course I still +refuse my consent …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR</span> [<i>continues his speech and frowns</i>] In that case I +beg, I implore you, not to speak to her of your refusal! +Don't settle matters negatively …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I don't expect we shall mention the +subject. For my part, I certainly won't begin.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> And she is even less likely to. I only want +you to make her acquaintance.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> The one thing I can't understand is +how you reconcile your desire to marry Mrs. Protásova, +who has a husband living, with your religious conviction +that divorce is contrary to Christianity.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> Mother, this is cruel of you! Are we really so +immaculate that we must always be perfectly consistent +when life is so complex? Mother, why are you so cruel +to me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I love you. I desire your happiness.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR</span> [<i>to Prince Abrézkov</i>] Prince!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Of course you desire his happiness. +But it is not easy for you and me, with our grey hairs, to +understand the young; and it is particularly difficult for +a mother grown accustomed to her own idea of how her +son is to be happy. Women are all like that.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Yes, yes indeed! You are all against +me! You may do it, of course. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vous êtes majeur.</i><a name="FNanchor_18_18" href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> … +But you will kill me!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> You are not yourself. This is worse than +cruelty!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV</span> [<i>to Victor</i>] Be quiet, Victor. Your +mother's words are always worse than her deeds.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260">260</a></span> +<span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I shall tell her how I think and feel, +but I will do it without offending her.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Of that I am sure.</p> + +<p><i>Enter footman.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Here she is.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> I'll go.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> Elisabeth Andréyevna Protásova.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> I am going. <em>Please</em>, Mother! <ins title="[Exit.">[<i>Exit.</i>]</ins></p> + +<p><i>Prince Abrézkov also rises.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Ask her in. [<i>To Prince Abrézkov</i>] +No, you must please stay here!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I thought you'd find a <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tête-à-tête</i> +easier.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> No, I'm afraid … [<i>Is restless</i>] If +I want to be left <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tête-à-tête</i> with her, I will nod to you. +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Cela dépendra.</i><a name="FNanchor_19_19" href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> … To be left alone with her may make it +difficult for me. But I'll do like that if … [<i>Makes a sign</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I shall understand. I feel sure you +will like her. Only be just.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> How you are all against me!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Lisa, in visiting dress and hat.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA</span> [<i>rising</i>] I was sorry not to find you in, +and it is kind of you to call.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I never dreamed that you'd be so good as to +call.… I am so grateful to you for wishing to see me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA</span> [<i>pointing to Prince Abrézkov</i>] You are +acquainted?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Yes, certainly. I have had the +pleasure of being introduced. [<i>They shake hands and sit +down</i>] My niece Nelly has often mentioned you to me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes, she and I were great friends [<i>glancing timidly +at Anna Dmítrievna</i>], and we are still friendly. [<i>To Anna +Dmítrievna</i>] I never expected that you would wish to +see me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I knew your husband well. He was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261">261</a></span>friendly with Victor, and used to come to our house +before he left for Tambóv. I think it was there you +married?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes, it was there we married.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> But after his return to Moscow he +never visited us.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes, he hardly went out anywhere.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> And he never introduced you +to me.</p> + +<p><ins title="[Awkward silence."><i>Awkward silence.</i></ins></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> The last time I met you was at the +theatricals at the Denísovs'. They went off very well; +and you were acting.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> No … Yes … Of course … I did act. +[<i>Silence again</i>]. Anna Dmítrievna, forgive me if what I +am going to say displeases you, but I can't and don't +know how to dissemble! I have come because Victor +Miháylovich said … because he—I mean, because +you wished to see me.… But it is best to speak +out [<i>with a catch in her voice</i>] … It is very hard for +me.… But you are kind.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I'd better go.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Yes, do.</p> + +<p><i>Prince Abrézkov takes leave of both women, and exit.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Listen, Lisa … I am very sorry +for you, and I like you. But I love Victor. He is the +one being I love in the world. I know his soul as I know +my own. It is a proud soul. He was proud as a boy of +seven.… Not proud of his name or wealth, but +proud of his character and innocence, which he has +guarded. He is as pure as a maiden.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I know.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> He has never loved any woman. +You are the first. I do not say I am not jealous. I am +jealous. But we mothers—your son is still a baby, and +it is too soon for you—we are prepared for that. I was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262">262</a></span>prepared to give him up to his wife and not to be jealous—but +to a wife as pure as himself …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I … have I …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Forgive me! I know it was not +your fault, but you are unfortunate. And I know him. +Now he is ready to bear—and will bear—anything, and +he would never mention it, but he would suffer. His +wounded pride would suffer, and he would not be +happy.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I have thought of that.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Lisa, my dear, you are a wise and +good woman. If you love him you must desire his +happiness more than your own. And if that is so, you +will not wish to bind him and give him cause to repent—though +he would never <em>say</em> a word.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I know he wouldn't! I have thought about it, +and have asked myself that question. I have thought of +it, and have spoken of it to him. But what can I do, +when he says he does not wish to live without me? I +said to him: “Let us be friends, but do not spoil your +life; do not bind your pure life to my unfortunate one!” +But he does not wish for that.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> No, not at present.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Persuade him to leave me, and I will agree. I +love him for his own happiness and not for mine. Only +help me! Do not hate me! Let us lovingly work +together for his happiness!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Yes, yes! I have grown fond of you. +[<i>Kisses her. Lisa cries</i>] And yet, and yet it is dreadful! +If only he had loved you before you married …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> He says he did love me then, but did not wish +to prevent a friend's happiness.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Ah, how hard it all is! Still, we +will love one another, and God will help us to find what +we want.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR</span> [<i>entering</i>] Mother, dear! I have heard everything! +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263">263</a></span>I expected this: you are fond of her, and all +will be well!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I am sorry you heard. I should not have said +it if …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Still, nothing is settled. All I can +say is, that if it were not for all these unfortunate circumstances, +I should have been glad. [<i>Kisses her</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VICTOR.</span> Only, please don't change!</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<p class="scene">A plainly furnished room; bed, table, sofa. Fédya alone.</p> + +<p><i>A knock at the door. A woman's voice outside.</i> Why have +you locked yourself in, Theodore Vasílyevich? Fédya! +Open …!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>gets up and unlocks door</i>] That's right! Thank +you for coming. It's dull, terribly dull!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Why didn't you come to us? Been drinking +again? Eh, eh! And after you'd promised!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> D'you know, I've no money!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> And why have I taken it into my head to care +for you!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Másha!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Well, what about “Másha, Másha”? If you +were really in love, you'd have got a divorce long ago. +They themselves asked you to. You say you don't love +her, but all the same you keep to her! I see you don't +wish …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> But you know why I don't wish!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> That's all rubbish. People say quite truly that +you're an empty fellow.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264">264</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What can I say to you? That your words hurt +me, you know without being told!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Nothing hurts you!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You know that the one joy I have in life is +your love.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> <em>My</em> love—yes; but yours doesn't exist.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> All right. I'm not going to assure you. Besides, +what's the good? You know!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Fédya; why torment me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Which of us torments?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA</span> [<i>cries</i>] You are unkind!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>goes up and embraces her</i>] Másha! What's it all +about? Stop that. One must live, and not whine. It +doesn't suit you at all, my lovely one!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> You do love me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Whom else could I love?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Only me? Well then, read what you have +been writing.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> It will bore you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> It's you who wrote it, so it's sure to be good.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well then listen. [<i>Reads</i>] “One day, late in +autumn, my friend and I agreed to meet on the Murýgin +fields, where there was a close thicket with many young +birds in it. The day was dull, warm, and quiet. The +mist …”</p> + +<p><i>Enter two old gipsies, Másha's parents, Iván Makárovich +and Nastásia Ivánovna.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NASTÁSIA</span> [<i>stepping up to her daughter</i>] Here you are +then, you damned runaway sheep! [<i>To Fédya</i>] My respects +to you, sir! [<i>To Másha</i>] Is that how you treat +us, eh?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN</span> [<i>to Fédya</i>] It's wrong, sir, what you're doing! +You're ruining the wench! Oh, but it's wrong … +You're doing a dirty deed.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NASTÁSIA.</span> Put on your shawl! March at once!… +Running away like this! What can I say to the choir? +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265">265</a></span>Gallivanting with a beggar—what can you get out of +him?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> I don't gallivant! I love this gentleman, that's +all. I've not left the choir. I'll go on singing, and +what …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN.</span> Say another word, and I'll pull the hair off your +head!… Slut!… Who behaves like that? Not +your father, nor your mother, nor your aunt!… It's +bad, sir! We were fond of you—often and often we sang +to you without pay. We pitied you, and what have you +done?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NASTÁSIA.</span> You've ruined our daughter for nothing … +our own, our only daughter, the light of our eyes, our +priceless jewel—you've trodden her into the mire, that's +what you've done! You've no conscience.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Nastásia Ivánovna, you suspect me falsely. Your +daughter is like a sister to me. I care for her honour. +You must think no evil … but I love her! What is +one to do?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN.</span> But you didn't love her when you had money! +If you'd then subscribed ten thousand roubles or so to +the choir, you might have had her honourably. But now +you've squandered everything, and carry her off by +stealth! It's a shame, sir, a shame!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> He has not carried me off! I came to him +myself, and if you take me away now, I shall come back +again. I love him, and there's an end of it! My love is +stronger than all your locks … I won't!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">NASTÁSIA.</span> Come, Másha dearest! Come, my own! +Don't sulk. You've done wrong, and now come +along.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN.</span> Now then, you've talked enough! March! +[<i>Seizes her hand</i>] Excuse us, sir! [<i>Exit the three gipsies</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Prince Abrézkov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Excuse me. I have been an unwilling +witness of an unpleasant scene.…</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266">266</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Whom have I the honour?… [<i>Recognises the +Prince</i>] Ah, Prince Abrézkov! [<i>They shake hands</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> An unwilling witness of an unpleasant +scene. I should have been glad not to hear, but +having overheard it, I consider it my duty to tell you so. +I was directed here, and had to wait at the door for those +people to come out—more particularly as their very loud +voices rendered my knocking inaudible.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, yes—please take a seat. Thank you for +telling me: it gives me the right to explain that scene to +you. I don't mind what you may think of me, but I +should like to tell you that the reproaches you heard +addressed to that girl, that gipsy singer, were unjust. +That girl is as morally pure as a dove; and my relations +with her are those of a friend. There may be a tinge of +romance in them, but it does not destroy the purity—the +honour—of the girl. That is what I wished to tell you; +but what is it you want of me? In what way can I be +of service?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> In the first place, I …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Forgive me, Prince. My present social standing +is such, that my former slight acquaintance with you +does not entitle me to a visit from you, unless you have +some business with me. What is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I won't deny it. You have guessed +right. I have business with you; but I beg you to +believe that the alteration in your position in no wise +affects my attitude towards you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I am sure of it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> My business is this. The son of my +old friend, Anna Dmítrievna Karénina, and she herself, +have asked me to ascertain directly from you what are +your relations … May I speak out?… your relations +with your wife, Elisabeth Andréyevna Protásova.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> My relations with my wife, or rather with her +who <em>was</em> my wife, are entirely at an end.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267">267</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> So I understood, and that is why I +accepted this difficult mission.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> At an end, and, I hasten to add, not by her +fault, but by mine—by my innumerable faults. She is, +as she always was, quite irreproachable.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Well then, Victor Karénin, or rather +his mother, asked me to find out what your intentions +are.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>growing excited</i>] What intentions? I have none. +I set her quite free! Moreover, I will never disturb her +peace. I know she loves Victor Karénin. Well, let +her! I consider him a very dull, but very good and +honourable man, and I think that she will, as the phrase +goes, be happy with him; and—<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">que le bon Dieu les +bénisse</i>!<a name="FNanchor_20_20" href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> That's all …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Yes, but we …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>interrupting</i>] And don't suppose that I feel the +least bit jealous. If I said that Victor is dull, I withdraw +the remark. He is an excellent, honourable, moral man: +almost the direct opposite of myself. And he has loved +her from childhood. Perhaps she too may have loved +him when she married me—that happens sometimes! +The very best love is unconscious love. I believe she +always did love him; but as an honest woman she did +not confess it even to herself. But … a shadow of +some kind always lay across our family life—but why am +I confessing to you?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Please do! Believe me, my chief +reason for coming to you was my desire to understand +the situation fully.… I understand you. I understand +that the shadow, as you so well express it, may +have been …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, it was; and that perhaps is why I could +not find satisfaction in the family life she provided for +me, but was always seeking something, and being carried +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268">268</a></span>away. However, that sounds like excusing myself. I +don't want to, and can't, excuse myself. I was (I say +with assurance, <em>was</em>) a bad husband. I say <em>was</em>, because +in my consciousness I am not, and have long not been, +her husband. I consider her perfectly free. So there +you have my answer to your question.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Yes, but you know Victor's family, +and himself too. His relation to Elisabeth Andréyevna +is, and has been all through, most respectful and distant. +He assisted her when she was in trouble …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, I by my dissipation helped to draw them +together. What's to be done? It had to be so!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> You know the strictly Orthodox convictions +of that family. Having myself a broader outlook +on things, I do not share them; but I respect and understand +them. I understand that for him, and especially +for his mother, union with a woman without a Church +marriage is unthinkable.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, I know his stu … his strictness, his +conservatism in these matters. But what do they want? +A divorce? I told them long ago that I am quite willing; +but the business of taking the blame on myself, and all +the lies connected with it, are very trying.…<a name="FNanchor_21_21" href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I quite understand you, and sympathise. +But how can it be avoided? I think it might be +arranged that way—but you are right. It is dreadful, +and I quite understand you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>pressing the Prince's hand</i>] Thank you, dear +Prince! I always knew you were a kind and honourable +man. Tell me what to do. How am I to act? Put +yourself in my place. I am not trying to improve. I +am a good-for-nothing; but there are things I cannot do +quietly. I cannot quietly tell lies.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269">269</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I don't understand you! You, a +capable, intelligent man, so sensitive to what is good—how +can you let yourself be so carried away—so forget +what you expect of yourself? How have you ruined +your life and come to this?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>forcing back tears of emotion</i>] I have led this +disorderly life for ten years, and this is the first time a +man like you has pitied me! I have been pitied by my +boon-companions, by rakes and by women; but a reasonable, +good man like you … Thank you! How did I +come to my ruin? First, through drink. It is not that +drink tastes nice; but do what I will, I always feel I am +not doing the right thing, and I feel ashamed. I talk to +you now, and feel ashamed. As for being a <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Maréchal de +la noblesse</i>, or a Bank Director—I should feel ashamed, so +ashamed! It is only when I drink that I do not feel this +shame. And music: not operas or Beethoven, but +gipsies!… That is life! Energy flows into one's +veins! And then those dear black eyes, and those +smiles! And the more delicious it is, the more ashamed +one feels afterwards.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> How about work?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I have tried it, but it's no good. I am always +dissatisfied with it—but what's the use of talking about +myself! I thank you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Then what am I to say?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Tell them I will do what they wish. They +want to get married, and that there should be no obstacle +to their marriage?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Of course.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I'll do it! Tell them I will certainly +do it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> But when?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Wait a bit. Well, say in a fortnight. Will +that do?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Then I may tell them so?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270">270</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You may. Good-bye, Prince! Thank you +once again!</p> + +<p>[<i>Exit Prince</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>sits for a long time and smiles silently</i>] That's the +way, that's the way! It must be so, must be, must be! +Splendid!</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271">271</a></span></p> +<h2>ACT IV</h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<p class="scene">A private room in a restaurant. A waiter shows in Fédya +and Iván Petróvich Alexándrov.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">WAITER.</span> Here, please. No one will disturb you here. +I'll bring some paper directly.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Protásov, I'll come in too.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>seriously</i>] If you like, but I'm busy and … All +right, come in.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> You wish to reply to their demands? +I'll tell you what to say. I should not do it that way—always +speak straight out, and act with decision.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>to waiter</i>] A bottle of champagne!</p> + +<p><i>Exit waiter.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>taking out a revolver and putting it on the table</i>] +Wait a bit!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> What's that? Do you want to shoot +yourself? You can if you like. I understand you! +They wish to humiliate you, and you will show them the +sort of man you are! You will kill yourself with a +revolver, and them with magnanimity. I understand you. +I understand everything, because I am a genius.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Of course—of course. Only … [<i>Enter waiter +with paper and ink</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>covers the revolver with a napkin</i>] Uncork it—let's +have a drink. [<i>They drink. Fédya writes</i>] Wait a bit!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Here's to your … great journey! +You know I'm above all this. I'm not going to restrain +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272">272</a></span>you! Life and death are alike to Genius. I die in life, +and live in death. You will kill yourself that two people +should pity you; and I—I shall kill myself that the whole +world may understand what it has lost. I won't hesitate, +or think about it! I seize it [<i>snatches revolver</i>]—now! +And all is over. But it is too soon yet. [<i>Lays down +revolver</i>] Nor shall I write anything; they must understand +it themselves.… Oh, you …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>writing</i>] Wait a bit.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Pitiful people! They fuss, they +bustle, and don't understand—don't understand anything +at all.… I'm not talking to you, I am only expressing +my thoughts. And, after all, what does humanity need? +Very little—only to value its geniuses. But they always +are executed, persecuted, tortured.… No! I'm not +going to be your toy! I will drag you out into the open! +No-o-o! Hypocrites!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>having finished writing, drinks and reads over his +letter</i>] Go away, please!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Go away? Well, good-bye then! I +am not going to restrain you. I shall do the same. But +not yet. I only want to tell you …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> All right! You'll tell me afterwards. And +now, dear chap, just one thing: give this to the manager +[<i>gives him money</i>] and ask if a parcel and a letter have +come for me.… Please do!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> All right—then you'll wait for me? I +have still something important to tell you—something that +you will not hear in this world nor in the next, at any rate +not till I come there.… Am I to let him have <em>all</em> of this?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> As much as is necessary. [<i>Exit Iván Petróvich.</i>]</p> + +<p><i>Fédya sighs with relief; locks the door behind Iván Petróvich; +takes up the revolver, cocks it, puts it to his temple; +shudders, and carefully lowers it again. Groans.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No; I can't! I can't! I can't! [<i>Knock at the +door</i>] Who's there?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273">273</a></span> +[<i>Másha's voice from outside</i>] It's me!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Who's “me”? Oh, Másha … [<i>opens door</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> I've been to your place, to Popóv's, to Afrémov's, +and guessed that you must be here. [<i>Sees revolver</i>] That's +a nice thing! There's a fool! A regular fool! Is it +possible you really meant to?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No, I couldn't.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Do I count for nothing at all? You heathen! +You had no pity for me? Oh, Theodore Vasílyevich, +it's a sin, a sin! In return for my love …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I wished to release them. I promised to, and +I can't lie.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> And what about me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What about you? It would have set you free +too. Is it better for you to be tormented by me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Seems it's better. I can't live without you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What sort of life could you have with me? +You'd have cried a bit, and then gone on living your +own life.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> I shouldn't have cried at all! Go to the devil, +if you don't pity me! [<i>Cries</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Másha, dearest! I meant to do it for the best.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Best for yourself!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>smiles</i>] How's that, when I meant to kill +myself?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Of course, best for yourself! But what is it +you want? Tell me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What I want? I want a great deal.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Well, what? What?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> First of all, to keep my promise. That is the +first thing, and quite sufficient. To lie, and do all the +dirty work necessary to get a divorce … I can't!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Granted that it's horrid—I myself …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Next, they must really be free—my wife and +he. After all, they are good people; and why should +they suffer? That's the second thing.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274">274</a></span> +<span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Well, there isn't much good in her, if she's +thrown you over.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> She didn't—I threw her over.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> All right, all right! It's always you. She is an +angel! What else!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> This—that you are a good, dear girlie—and +that I love you, and if I live I shall ruin you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> That's not your business. I know quite well +what will ruin me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>sighs</i>] 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.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> 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!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> That's easily said.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Well, then, do it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, when I look at you I feel as if I could +really do anything.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> And so you shall! Yes, you'll do it! [<i>Sees +the letter</i>] What's that? You've written to them? What +have you written?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What have I written?… [<i>Takes the letter and +is about to tear it up</i>] It's no longer wanted now.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA</span> [<i>snatches the letter</i>] You've said you would kill +yourself? Yes? You did not mention the revolver—only +said that you'd kill yourself?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, that I should be no more.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Give it me—give it, give it!… Have you +read <cite>What to Do</cite>?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I think I have.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> It's a tiresome novel, but there's one very, very +good thing in it. That what's his name?—Rakhmánov—goes +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275">275</a></span>and pretends he has drowned himself. And you—can +you swim?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> That's all right. Let me have your clothes—everything, +and your pocket-book too.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> How can I?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Wait a bit, wait, wait! Let's go home; then +you'll change your clothes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> But it will be a fraud.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> All right! You go to bathe, your clothes +remain on the bank, in the pocket is your pocket-book +and this letter.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, and then?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> And then? Why, then we'll go off together +and live gloriously.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Iván Petróvich.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> There now! And the revolver? I'll +take it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÁSHA.</span> Take it; take it! We're off.</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<p class="scene">The <ins title="Protasovs'">Protásovs'</ins> drawing-room.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> He promised so definitely, that I am sure he +will keep his word.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I am ashamed to say it, but I must confess that +what I heard about that gipsy girl makes me feel quite +free. Don't think it is jealousy; it isn't, but you know—it +sets me free. I hardly know how to tell you.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> You don't know how to tell me … Why?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>smiling</i>] Never mind! Only let me explain what +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276">276</a></span>I feel. The chief thing that tormented me was, that I +felt I loved two men; and that meant that I was an +immoral woman.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> <em>You</em> immoral?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> But since I knew that he had got someone else, +and that he therefore did not need me, I felt free, and +felt that I might truthfully say that I love you. Now +things are clear within me, and only my position torments +me. This divorce! It is such torture—and then this +waiting!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> It will soon, very soon, be settled. Besides +his promise, I sent my secretary to him with the petition +ready for signature, and told him not to leave till it is +signed. If I did not know him so well, I should think +he was purposely behaving as he does.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> He? No, it is the result both of his weakness +and his honesty. He doesn't want to say what is not +true. Only you were wrong to send him money.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I had to. The want of it might be the cause +of the delay.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> No, there is something bad about money.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Well, anyhow, <em>he</em> need not have been so +punctilious …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> How selfish we are becoming!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, I confess it. It's your own fault. After +all that waiting, that hopelessness, I am now so happy! +And happiness makes one selfish. It's your fault!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Do you think it's you only? I too—I feel full of +happiness, bathed in bliss! I have everything—Mísha +has recovered, your mother likes me, and you—and above +all, I, I love!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes? And no repenting? No turning back?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Since that day everything has changed in me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> And will not change again?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Never! I only wish you to have done with it all +as completely as I have.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277">277</a></span> +<i>Enter nurse, with baby. Lisa takes the baby on her lap.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> What wretched people we are!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>kissing baby</i>] Why?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> When you married, and I heard of it on my +return from abroad, and was wretched because I felt that +I had lost you, it was a relief to me to find that you still +remembered me. I was content even with that. Then +when our friendship was established and I felt your +kindness to me, and even a little gleam of something in +our friendship that was more than friendship, I was +almost happy. I was only tormented by a fear that I +was not being honest towards Fédya. But no! I was +always so firmly conscious that any other relation than +one of purest friendship with my friend's wife was +impossible—besides which, I knew you—that I was not +really troubled about that. Afterwards, when Fédya +began to cause you anxiety, and I felt that I was of some +use to you, and that my friendship was beginning to +alarm you—I was quite happy, and a sort of vague hope +awoke in me. Still later, when he became altogether +impossible and you decided to leave him, and I spoke +to you plainly for the first time, and you did not say +“No,” but went away in tears—then I was perfectly +happy; and had I then been asked what more I wanted, +I should have answered “Nothing”! But later on, when +there came the possibility of uniting our lives: when my +mother grew fond of you and the possibility began to be +realised; when you told me that you loved and had +loved me, and then (as you did just now) that he no +longer existed for you and that you love only me—what +more, one would think, could I wish for? But no! Now +the past torments me! I wish that past had not existed, +and that there were nothing to remind me of it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>reproachfully</i>] Victor!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Lisa, forgive me! If I tell you this, it is only +because I don't want a single thought of mine about +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278">278</a></span>you to be hidden from you. I have purposely told you, +to show how bad I am, and how well I know that I must +struggle with and conquer myself.… And now I've +done it! I love him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> That's as it should be. I did all I could, but it +was not I that did what you desired: it happened in my +heart, from which everything but you has vanished.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Everything?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Everything, everything—or I would not say so.</p> + +<p><i>Enter footman.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FOOTMAN.</span> Mr. Voznesénsky.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> He's come with Fédya's answer.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>to Karénin</i>] Ask him in here.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>rising and going to the door</i>] Well, here is the +answer!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>gives baby to nurse; exit nurse</i>] Is it possible, +Victor, that everything will now be decided? [<i>Kisses +Karénin</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Voznesénsky.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Well?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VOZNESÉNSKY.</span> He has gone.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Gone! And without signing the petition?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VOZNESÉNSKY.</span> The petition is not signed, but a letter +was left for you and Elisabeth Andréyevna [<i>Takes letter +out of his pocket and gives it to Karénin</i>] I went to his +lodgings, and was told he was at the restaurant. I went +there, and Mr. Protásov told me to return in an hour and I +should then have his answer. I went back, and then …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Is it possible that this means another delay? +More excuses! No, that would be downright wicked. +How he has fallen!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> But do read the letter! [<i>Karénin opens letter</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VOZNESÉNSKY.</span> You do not require me any longer?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Well, no. Good-bye! Thank you … +[<i>Pauses in astonishment as he reads</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Exit Voznesénsky.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279">279</a></span> +<span class="speaker">LISA.</span> What—what is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> This is awful!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>takes hold of letter</i>] Read!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>reads</i>] “Lisa and Victor, I address myself to +you both. I won't lie and call you ‘dear’ or anything +else. I cannot master the feeling of bitterness and reproach +(I reproach myself, but all the same it is painful) +when I think of you and of your love and happiness. I +know everything. I know that though I was the husband, +I have—by a series of accidents—been in your way. +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C'est moi qui suis l'intrus.</i><a name="FNanchor_22_22" href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> But all the same, I cannot +restrain a feeling of bitterness and coldness towards you. +I love you both in theory, especially Lisa, Lisette! But +actually I am more than cold towards you. I know I am +wrong, but cannot <ins title="change.">change.”</ins></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> How can he …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>continues reading</i>] “But to business! This +very feeling of discord within me forces me to fulfil your +desire not in the way you wish. Lying, acting so disgusting +a comedy, bribing the Consistorium, and all those +horrors, are intolerably repulsive to me. Vile as I may +be, I am vile in a different way, and cannot take part in +those abominations—simply cannot! The solution at +which I have arrived is the simplest: to be happy, you +must marry. I am in the way; consequently I must +destroy myself.…”</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>seizes Victor's hand</i>] Victor!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>reads</i>] “… must destroy myself. And I +will do it. When you get this letter, I shall be no more.</p> + +<p>“<i>P.S.</i> What a pity you sent me money to pay for the +divorce proceedings! It is unpleasant, and unlike you! +But it can't be helped. I have so often made mistakes, +why shouldn't you make one? I return the money. My +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280">280</a></span>way of escape is shorter, cheaper, and surer. All I ask is, +don't be angry with me, and think kindly of me. And, +one thing more—there is a clockmaker, Evgényev, here. +Can't you help him, and set him on his feet? He's a +good man, though weak.—Good-bye,</p> + +<p class="right" style="padding-right: 4em;">“<span class="smcap">Fédya.</span>”</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> He has taken his life! Yes …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>rings, and runs out to the hall</i>] Call Mr. +Voznesénsky back!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I knew it! I knew it! Fédya, dear Fédya!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Lisa!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> It's not true, not true that I didn't love him and +don't love him! I love only him! I love him! And +I've killed him. Leave me!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Voznesénsky.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Where is Mr. Protásov? What did they tell +you?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">VOZNESÉNSKY.</span> They told me he went out this morning, +left this letter, and had not returned.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> We shall have to find out about it, Lisa. I +must leave you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Forgive me, but I too can't lie! Go now—go, +and find out …</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281">281</a></span></p> +<h2>ACT V</h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<p class="scene">A dirty room in a low-class restaurant. A table, at which +people sit drinking tea and vódka. In the foreground a small +table, at which sits Fédya, tattered, and much come down in the +world. With him is Petushkóv, a gentle, mild man with long +hair, of clerical appearance. Both are slightly drunk.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> I understand, I understand. That is true +love! Yes? Go on.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, you know, if a woman of our class showed +such feeling and sacrificed everything for the man she +loved.… But she was a gipsy, brought up to money-hunting, +and yet she had this self-sacrificing love! Gave +everything, and wanted nothing herself! The contrast +was so wonderful!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Yes, in art we call it “value.” You can +only get quite bright red by putting green round it. +But that's not to the point. I understand, quite understand.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Yes, and I believe the one good action of my +life is that I never took advantage of her love. And do +you know why?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Pity.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Oh no! I never felt pity for her. What I felt +for her was always rapturous admiration—and when she +sang! Ah, how she sang—and perhaps still sings! I +always regarded her as far above me. I did not ruin her, +simply because I loved her; loved her truly. And now +she's a good, happy memory! [<i>Drinks</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282">282</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Yes, I understand, I understand. It's +ideal.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I'll tell you something. I have had my +passions, and once I was in love with a lady—very +handsome—and I loved her nastily, like a dog. She +gave me a <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">rendezvous</i>. And I did not go, because I +thought it was treating the husband shabbily. And it is +strange that, even now, when I remember it I want to +feel pleased and to approve of myself for having acted +honourably, but I always repent as if I had committed a +sin! But in the case of Másha, on the contrary, I am +always pleased—pleased that I did not pollute that +feeling of mine.… I may fall lower still, sell all I +have on me, be covered with lice and sores—but this +jewel … no, not jewel, but ray of sunshine, is still with +me and in me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> I understand, I understand! And where is +she now?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I don't know! And I'd rather not know. All +<em>that</em> belonged to a different life; and I don't want to mix +it up with this.…</p> + +<p><i>A woman is heard screaming at a table behind. The +manager and a policeman come in and take her out. Fédya +and Petushkóv listen, and look on in silence. When all is +quiet again,</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Yes, your life is astonishing.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No, it's most simple! You know, in the society +in which I was born there are only three careers open to +a man—only three. The first is to enter the civil or +military service, to earn money and increase the abominations +amid which we live. That was repulsive to me. +Perhaps I had not the capacity for it; but above all it +repelled me. Then the second is to destroy those +abominations. To do that you must be a hero; and I +am not a hero. And the third is to forget it all by +going on the spree, drinking and singing. That is what +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283">283</a></span>I did. And this is what my singing has brought me +to! [<i>Drinks</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> And what about family life? I should be +happy if I had a wife. My wife ruined me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Family life? Yes, my wife was an ideal +woman. She is still living. But how shall I tell you? +There was no yeast in it—you know, the yeast that +makes the beer froth! Well, there was nothing of that in +our life: it was flat, and I wanted something to help me +to forget—and one can't forget when there's no sparkle in +life. Then I began to do all sorts of nasty things. And +you know, we love people for the good we do them, and +dislike them for the harm we do them; and I did her +much harm. She seemed to love me …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Why do you say “seemed”?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I say it because there was never anything about +her that made her creep into my soul as Másha did. But +that's not what I meant to say. When she was pregnant, +or nursing her baby, I used to vanish, and come home +drunk; and of course, just because of that, I loved her +less and less. Yes, yes! [<i>in ecstasy</i>] I have it! The reason +I love Másha is that I did her good and not harm. +That's why I love her. The other one I tormented, and +therefore I don't like her.… No, after all, I simply +don't like her! Was I jealous? Yes, but that too is +past.…</p> + +<p><i>Enter Artémyev, with a cockade on his cap, dyed moustaches, +and old renovated clothes.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> Wish you a good appetite! [<i>Bows to Fédya</i>] +I see you've made acquaintance with our painter, our artist.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>coldly</i>] Yes, we are acquainted.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV</span> [<i>to Petushkóv</i>] And have you finished the +portrait?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> No, I lost the order.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV</span> [<i>Sits down</i>] I'm not in your way?</p> + +<p><i>Fédya and Petushkóv do not answer.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284">284</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Theodore Vasílyevich was telling me +about his life.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> Secrets? Then I won't disturb you—go +on? I'm sure I don't want you. Swine! [<i>Goes to next +table and calls for beer. He listens all the time to Fédya's +conversation with Petushkóv, and leans towards them without +their noticing</i> <ins title="it."><i>it.</i>]</ins></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I don't like that gentleman.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> He was offended.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, let him be! I can't stand him. He is +such a fellow, my words won't come when he is there. +Now with you I feel at ease, and comfortable. Well, +what was I saying?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> You were speaking about your jealousy. +And how was it you parted from your wife?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Ah! [<i>Pauses and considers</i>] It's a curious +story. My wife is married …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> How's that? Are you divorced?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>smiles</i>] No, I left her a widow.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> What do you mean?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I mean that she's a widow! I don't exist.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Don't exist?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No, I'm a corpse! Yes … [<i>Artémyev leans +over, listening</i>] Well, you see—I <em>can</em> tell <em>you</em> about it; +and besides, it happened long ago; and you don't know +my real name. It was this way. When I had tired out +my wife and had squandered everything I could lay my +hands on, and had become unbearable, a protector turned +up for her. Don't imagine that there was anything dirty +or bad about it—no, he was my friend and a very good +fellow—only in everything my exact opposite! And as +there is far more evil than good in me, it follows that he +was a good—a very good man: honourable, firm, self-restrained +and, in a word, virtuous. He had known my +wife from her childhood, and loved her. When she +married me he resigned himself to his fate. But later, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285">285</a></span>when I became horrid and tormented her, he began to +come oftener to our house. I myself wished it. They +fell in love with one another, and meanwhile I went +altogether to the bad, and abandoned my wife of my own +accord. And besides, there was Másha. I myself advised +them to marry. They did not want to, but I +became more and more impossible, and it ended in …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> The usual thing?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No. I am sure; I know for certain that they +remained pure. He is a religious man, and considers +marriage without the Church's blessing a sin. So they +began asking me to agree to a divorce. I should have +had to take the blame on myself. It would have been +necessary to tell all sorts of lies … and I couldn't! +Believe me, it would have been easier for me to take my +life than to tell such lies—and I wished to do so. But +then a kind friend came and said, “Why do it?” and +arranged it all for me. I wrote a farewell letter, and +next day my clothes, pocket-book and letters were found +on the river bank. I can't swim.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Yes, but how about the body? They did +not find that!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> They did! Fancy! A week later somebody's +body was found. My wife was called to identify the decomposing +body. She just glanced at it. “Is it he?” +“It is.” And so it was left. I was buried, and they +married and are living in this town, happily. And I—here +I am, living and drinking! Yesterday I passed +their house. The windows were lit up, and someone's +shadow crossed the blind. Sometimes it's horrid, and +sometimes not. It's horrid when I've no money … +[<i>Drinks</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV</span> [<i>approaches</i>] Excuse me, but I heard your +story. It's a very good story, and more than that—a +very useful one! You say it's horrid when one has no +money? There's nothing more horrid. But you, in your +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286">286</a></span>position, should always have money. Aren't you a corpse? +Well then …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Excuse me! I did not speak to you and don't +want your advice.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> But I want to give it! You are a corpse; +but suppose you come to life again? Then they, your +wife and that gentleman, who are so happy—they would +be bigamists, and at best would be sent to the less distant +parts of Siberia. So why should you lack money?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I beg you to leave me alone.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> Simply write a letter. I'll write it for you +if you like; only give me their address, and you'll be +grateful to me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Be off, I tell you! I have told you nothing!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> Yes, you have! Here's my witness. The +waiter heard you say you were a corpse.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">WAITER.</span> I know nothing about it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You scoundrel!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ARTÉMYEV.</span> Am I a scoundrel? Eh, police! I'll give +him in charge!</p> + +<p><i>Fédya rises to go, but Artémyev holds him. Enter policeman.</i></p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<p class="scene">The ivy-covered verandah of a bungalow in the country. +Anna Dmítrievna Karénina. Lisa (pregnant), nurse, and boy.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Now he's on his way from the station.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">BOY.</span> Who is?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Papa.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">BOY.</span> Papa's coming from the station?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287">287</a></span> +<span class="speaker">LISA.</span> <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C'est étonnant comme il l'aime, tout-à-fait comme son +père.</i><a name="FNanchor_23_23" href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tant mieux! Se souvient-il de son père +véritable?</i><a name="FNanchor_24_24" href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA</span> [<i>sighs</i>] I never speak to him about it. I say to +myself, “Why confuse him?” Sometimes I think I +ought to tell him. What is your opinion, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Maman</i>?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> I think it is a matter of feeling, +Lisa, and if you obey your feelings your heart will tell +you what to say and when to say it. What a wonderful +conciliator death is! I confess there was a time when +Fédya—whom I had known from a child—was repulsive +to me; but now I only remember him as that nice lad, +Victor's friend, and as the passionate man who sacrificed +himself—illegally and irreligiously, but still sacrificed +himself—for those he loved. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">On aura beau dire, l'action +est belle.</i><a name="FNanchor_25_25" href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a>… I hope Victor will not forget to bring the +wool: I've hardly any left. [<i>Knits</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I hear him coming.</p> + +<p><i>The sound of wheels and bells is heard. Lisa rises, and +goes to the edge of the veranda.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> There's someone with him, a lady in a bonnet—It's +Mother! I have not seen her for an age. [<i>Goes to +the door</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Karénin and Anna Pávlovna.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA</span> [<i>kisses Lisa and Anna Dmítrievna</i>] Victor +met me, and has brought me here.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> He has done well.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes, certainly. I thought to myself, +“When shall I see her again?” and kept putting it off. +But now I've come, and if you don't turn me out I will +stay till the last train.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288">288</a></span> +<span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>kisses his wife, mother, and the boy</i>] D'you +know what a piece of luck! Congratulate me—I have +two days' holiday. They'll be able to get on without me +to-morrow.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Splendid! Two days! It's long since we had +that! We'll drive to the Hermitage, shall we?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> What a likeness! Isn't he a strapping +fellow? If only he has not inherited everything—his +father's heart …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> But not his weakness.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> No, everything! Victor agrees with me that if +only he had been rightly guided in childhood …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Well, I don't know about that; but I +simply can't think of him without tears.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> No more can we. How much higher he stands +now in our recollection!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> Yes, I am sure of it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> How it all seemed insoluble at one time—and +then everything suddenly came right.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> Well, Victor, did you get the wool?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Yes, I did. [<i>Brings a bag, and takes out +parcels</i>]. Here is the wool, and this is the eau-de-Cologne; +and here are letters—one “On Government +Service” for you, Lisa [<i>hands her a letter</i>]. Well Anna +Pávlovna, if you want to wash your hands I will show you +your room. I must make myself tidy too; it is almost +dinner time. Lisa, Anna Pávlovna's room is the corner +one downstairs, isn't it?</p> + +<p><i>Lisa is pale; holds the letter in trembling hands, and +reads it.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> What's the matter? Lisa, what is it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> He is alive!… Oh God! When will he release +me! Victor, what does this mean? [<i>Sobs</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>Takes letter and reads</i>] This is dreadful!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> What is it? Why don't you tell me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> It is dreadful! He's alive, she's a bigamist, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289">289</a></span>and I a criminal! It's a notice from the Examining +Magistrate—a summons for Lisa to appear before him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> What a dreadful man! Why has he +done this?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> All lies, lies!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Oh, how I hate him! I don't know what I am +saying … [<i>Exit in tears. Karénin follows her</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA PÁVLOVNA.</span> How is it he's alive?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ANNA DMÍTRIEVNA.</span> All I know is, that as soon as Victor +came in contact with this world of mud—they were sure +to draw him in too! And so they have. It's all fraud—all +lies!</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + + + +<div class="new-h2"> </div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290">290</a></span></p> +<h2>ACT VI</h2> + + +<h3 class="smcap">Scene 1</h3> + +<p class="scene">The room of an Examining Magistrate, who sits at a table +talking to Mélnikov. At a side table a clerk is sorting papers.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> But I never said anything of +the kind to her. She invented it, and now reproaches me.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÉLNIKOV.</span> She does not reproach you, but is grieved.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> All right, I'll come to dinner. +But now I have a very interesting case on. [<i>To Clerk</i>] +Ask her in.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">CLERK.</span> Shall I ask them both?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE</span> [<i>finishes his cigarette and hides it</i>] +No, only Mrs. Karénina, or rather—by her first husband—Protásova.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">MÉLNIKOV</span> [<i>going out</i>] Ah, Karénina!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Yes, it's a nasty affair. It's true +I am only beginning to look into it, but it's a bad business. +Well, good-bye! [<i>Exit Mélnikov</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Lisa, in black and veiled.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Take a seat, please. [<i>Points to +a chair</i>] Believe me, I much regret to have to question +you, but we are under the necessity … Please be calm, +and remember that you need not answer my questions. +Only, in my opinion, for your own sake—and in fact for +everybody's sake—the truth is best. It is always best, +even practically.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I have nothing to conceal.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Well then [<i>looks at paper</i>]—your +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291">291</a></span>name, position, religion—all that I have put down. Is it +correct?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Yes.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> You are accused of contracting +a marriage with another man, knowing your husband to +be alive.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I did not know it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> And also of having persuaded +your husband, and bribed him with money, to commit +a fraud—a pretended suicide—in order to free yourself +of him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> That is all untrue.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Well then, allow me to put a +few questions. Did you send him 1,200 roubles in July +of last year?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> It was his own money, the proceeds of the sale of +some things of his. At the time I parted from him, and +when I was expecting a divorce, I sent him the money.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Just so! Very well. That +money was sent to him on the 17th of July, two days +before his disappearance?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I think it was on the 17th, but I don't remember.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> And why was the application to +the Consistorium for a divorce withdrawn, just at that +time—and the lawyer told not to proceed with the case?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I don't know.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Well, and when the police +asked you to identify the body, how was it you recognised +it as your husband's?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I was so excited that I did not look at the body, +and I felt so sure it was he, that when they asked me I +answered, “I think it is he.”</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Yes, you did not see well, in +consequence of a very natural excitement. And now may +I ask why you have sent a monthly remittance to Sarátov, +the very town where your first husband was living?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292">292</a></span> +<span class="speaker">LISA.</span> My husband sent that money, and I cannot say +what it was for, as that is not my secret. But it was not +sent to Theodore Vasílyevich, for we were firmly convinced +of his death. That I can say for certain.<a name="FNanchor_26_26" href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Very well. Only allow me to +remark, madam, that the fact of our being servants of the +law does not prevent our being men; and believe me I +quite understand your position and sympathise with you! +You were tied to a man who squandered your property, +was unfaithful—in short, brought misfortune.…</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I loved him.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Yes; but still the desire to free +yourself was natural, and you chose this simpler way, +without realising that it would lead you into what is +considered a crime—bigamy! I quite understand it. +The judges will understand too; and therefore I advise +you to confess everything.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> I have nothing to confess. I have never lied. +[<i>Cries</i>] Do you want me any longer?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I must ask you to remain here. +I will not trouble you with any more questions. Only +kindly read this over and sign it. It is your deposition. +See whether your answers have been correctly taken down. +Please take that seat. [<i>Points to an armchair by the window. +To Clerk</i>] Ask Mr. Karénin to come in.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Karénin, stern and solemn.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Please take a seat.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Thank you! [<i>Remains standing</i>] What do you +want of me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I have to take your deposition.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> In what capacity?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293">293</a></span> +<span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE</span> [<i>smiling</i>] I, in the capacity of +Examining Magistrate, am obliged to question you in the +capacity of an accused person.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Indeed! Accused of what?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Of marrying a woman whose +husband was alive. However, allow me to question you +properly. Kindly sit down.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Thank you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Your name?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Victor Karénin.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Your calling?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Chamberlain and Member of Council.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Age?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Thirty-eight.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Religion?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Orthodox; and I have never before been +tried or questioned! Well?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Did you know that Theodore +Vasílyevich Protásov was alive when you married his wife?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I did not know it. We were both convinced +that he was drowned.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> After Protásov's alleged death, +to whom in Sarátov did you send a monthly remittance?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I do not wish to reply to that question.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Very well. Why did you send +money—1,200 roubles—to Mr. Protásov just before his +pretended death on 17th July?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> That money was given to me by my wife …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> By Mrs. Protásova?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> … by my wife, to send to her husband. +She considered that money to be his, and having severed +all connection with him, considered it unfair to keep it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> One more question—why did +you withdraw the application for divorce?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Because Theodore Vasílyevich undertook to +apply for a divorce, and wrote me about it.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294">294</a></span> +<span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Have you got his letter?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> It has been lost.<a name="FNanchor_27_27" href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> It is strange that everything +which might convince the Court of the truth of your +evidence should either be lost or non-existent.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> Do you want anything more?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I want nothing, except to do +my duty; but you'll have to exonerate yourselves, and +I have just advised Mrs. Protásova, and I advise you also, +not to try to hide what everyone can see, but to say what +really happened. Especially as Mr. Protásov is in such +a condition that he has already told everything just as it +happened, and will probably do the same in Court, I +should advise …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> I request you to keep within the limits of your +duty, and not to give me your advice! May we go? +[<i>Approaches Lisa, who rises and takes his arm</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I am very sorry to be obliged +to detain you … [<i>Karénin looks round in astonishment</i>] +Oh, I don't mean that I arrest you. Though that would +make it easier to get at the truth, I shall not resort to +such a measure. I only want to take Protásov's deposition +in your presence, and to confront him with you—which +will make it easier for you to detect any falsehood +in what he says. Please take a seat. Call in Mr. +Protásov!</p> + +<p><i>Enter Fédya, dirty and shabby.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>addresses Lisa and Karénin</i>] Lisa! Elisabeth +Andréyevna! Victor! I am not guilty! I wished to +act for the best. But if I am guilty … forgive me, +forgive me! [<i>Bows low to them</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Please to answer my questions.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Ask, then.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Your name?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295">295</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Why, you know it!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Please answer.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well then, Theodore Protásov.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Your calling, age and religion?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>after a pause</i>] Aren't you ashamed to ask such +nonsense? Ask what you want to know, and not such +rubbish!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I beg you to be more careful in +your expressions, and to answer my questions!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Well, if you're not ashamed of it, here you are: +Calling, graduate; age, forty; religion, Orthodox. What +next!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Did Mr. Karénin and your wife +know that you were alive when you left your clothes on +the river bank and disappeared?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Certainly not! I wished really to commit +suicide, but afterwards—but there's no need to go into +that. The thing is, that they knew nothing about it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> How is it that you gave a +different account to the police officer?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> What police officer? Oh, when he came to see +me at the dosshouse? I was drunk, and was romancing. +I don't remember what I said. All that was rubbish. +Now I am not drunk, and am telling the whole truth! +They knew nothing. They believed that I was no longer +alive, and I was glad of it. And everything would have +gone on as it was, but for that rascal, Artémyev! If +anyone is guilty, it is I alone.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I understand your wish to be +magnanimous, but the law demands the truth. Why +was money sent to you?</p> + +<p><i>Fédya is silent.</i></p> + +<p>You received through Semyónov the money sent to +you in Sarátov?</p> + +<p><i>Fédya is silent.</i></p> + +<p>Why don't you answer? It will be put down in the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296">296</a></span>depositions that the accused did not answer these +questions, and this may harm you and them very much. +Well then, how was it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>after a pause</i>] Oh, Mr. Magistrate, how is it +you are not ashamed! Why do you pry into other +people's lives? You are glad to have power, and to show +it, you torment not physically but morally—torment +people a thousand times better than yourself!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I beg …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You've nothing to beg! I shall say what I +think, and you [<i>to Clerk</i>] write it down! At least for +once there will be sensible human words in a police +report! [<i>Raises his voice</i>] There are three people: I, he, +and she. Our relations to one another are complex—a +spiritual struggle such as you know nothing of, a struggle +between good and evil goes on. That struggle ends in a +manner which sets them free. They were all at peace. +They were happy, and remembered me with affection. +I, fallen as I was, was glad that I had acted as I ought, +and that I, a good-for-nothing, had gone out of their +lives, so as not to stand in the way of people who were +good and who had life before them. And so we were all +living, when suddenly a blackmailing scoundrel appears +who wants me to take part in his rascality, and I send +him about his business. Then he comes to you, to the +champion of Justice! The guardian of Morality! And +you, who receive each month a few pounds for doing +your dirty work, put on your uniform, and calmly bully +these people—bully people whose little finger is worth +more than your whole body and soul! People who would +not admit you to their anteroom! But you have got so +far, and are pleased …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> I shall have you turned out!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I'm not afraid of anyone, because I'm a corpse +and you can't do me any harm. No position could be +worse than mine! So turn me out!</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297">297</a></span> +<span class="speaker">KARÉNIN.</span> May we go?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Immediately, but first sign your +deposition.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> You'd be quite comic, if you weren't so vile!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">EXAMINING MAGISTRATE.</span> Take him away! I arrest you.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>to Lisa and Karénin</i>] Forgive me!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">KARÉNIN</span> [<i>approaches and holds out his hand</i>] It had to +happen!</p> + +<p><i>Lisa passes by. Fédya bows low to her.</i></p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<h3 class="new-h3 smcap">Scene 2</h3> + +<div class="scene"> +<p>A corridor of the Law Courts. In the background a door +with glass panels, beside which stands an usher. Further to +the right another door through which the accused are led.</p> + +<p>Iván Petróvich Alexándrov comes to the first door and wishes +to enter.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="speaker">USHER.</span> Where are you going? You mustn't! Shoving +in like that!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Why mustn't I? The law says the +proceedings are public. [<i>Applause is heard from inside the +Court</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">USHER.</span> Anyhow, you mustn't, and that's all about it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Ignorant fellow! You don't know +whom you are speaking to!</p> + +<p><i>A Young Lawyer in a dress-suit enters from the Court.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> Are you concerned in this case?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> No, I am the public, and this +ignoramus—this Cerberus—won't let me in!</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298">298</a></span> +<span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> But this door is not for the public.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> I know, but I am a man who should +be admitted.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> Wait a bit—they'll adjourn in a +minute. [<i>Is just going, when he meets Prince Abrézkov</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> May I ask how the case stands?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> The Counsel are speaking—Petrúshin +is addressing the Court.</p> + +<p><i>Applause from within.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> And how do the defendants bear +their position?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> With great dignity, especially Karénin +and Elisabeth Andréyevna. It is as if not they were being +indicted, but they were indicting society! That's what +is felt, and on that Petrúshin is working.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> Well, and Protásov?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> He is terribly excited. He trembles +all over; but that is natural, considering the life he +leads. He is particularly irritable, and interrupted the +Public Prosecutor and Counsel several times …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> What do you think the result will be?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> It is hard to say. In any case they +won't be found guilty of premeditation; but still … +[<i>A gentleman comes out, and Prince Abrézkov moves towards +the door</i>] You wish to go in?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I should like to.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> You are Prince Abrézkov?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PRINCE ABRÉZKOV.</span> I am.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER</span> [<i>to Usher</i>] Let this gentleman pass. There +is an empty chair just to the left.</p> + +<p><i>Usher lets Prince Abrézkov pass. As the door opens, +Counsel is seen speaking.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Aristocrats! I am an aristocrat of the +soul, and that is higher!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">YOUNG LAWYER.</span> Well, excuse me … [<i>Exit</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Petushkóv enters hurriedly, and approaches Iván Petróvich.</i></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299">299</a></span> +<span class="speaker">PETUSHKÓV.</span> Ah, how are you, Iván Petróvich? How +are things going?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Counsel are still speaking, but this +fellow won't let me in.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">USHER.</span> Don't make a noise here! This is not a public-house!</p> + +<p><i>Applause. The doors open. Lawyers, and the public—men +and women—come out.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">A LADY.</span> Splendid! He really moved me to tears.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">OFFICER.</span> It's better than any novel. Only I don't +understand how she could love him so. Dreadful object!</p> + +<p><i>The other door opens. The accused come out: first Lisa, +then Karénin. They pass along the corridor. Fédya follows +alone.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LADY.</span> Hush—here he is! Look how excited he seems!</p> + +<p><i>Lady and Officer pass on.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>approaches Iván Petróvich</i>] Have you brought +it?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">IVÁN PETRÓVICH.</span> Here it is. [<i>Hands Fédya something</i>].</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA</span> [<i>Hides it in his pocket, and wishes to pass out, but +sees Petushkóv</i>] Stupid! Vile! Dreary, dreary! Senseless. +[<i>Wishes to pass</i>].</p> + +<p><i>Enter Counsel Petrúshin; stout, red, and animated. He +approaches Fédya.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> Well, friend! Our affairs are going well—only +don't you go and spoil things for me in your last +speech!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I won't speak. What is the use? I shan't +do it.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> Yes, you must speak. But don't be excited. +The whole matter is now in a nutshell! Only +tell them what you told me—that if you are being tried, +it is only for <em>not</em> having committed suicide: that is, for +not doing what is considered a crime both by civil and +ecclesiastical law.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300">300</a></span> +<span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I shan't say anything!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> Why not?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I don't want to, and shan't. Tell me only, at +the worst, what will it be?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> I have already told you—at worst, exile to +Siberia.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Who will be exiled?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> You and your wife.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> And at best?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> Church penance, and of course annulment +of the second marriage.</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Then they will again tie me to her—or rather, +her to me?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN.</span> Yes, that must be so. But don't excite +yourself, and please say what I told you, and above all, +don't say anything superfluous. However [<i>noticing that a +circle of listeners has formed round them</i>] I am tired, and +will go and sit down; and you'd better take a rest. The +chief thing is, not to lose courage!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> No other sentence is possible?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">PETRÚSHIN</span> [<i>going</i>] No other.</p> + +<p><i>Enter Attendant.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">ATTENDANT.</span> Pass on! Pass on! No loitering in the +corridor!</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Directly! [<i>Takes out revolver and shoots himself +in the heart. Falls. All rush on him</i>] All right, I think it +is done.… Lisa!…</p> + +<p><i>The audience, judges, accused, and witnesses rush out from +all the doors.</i></p> + +<p><i>In front of all is Lisa. Behind her Másha, Karénin, Iván +Petróvich and Prince Abrézkov.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> Fédya, what have you done! Why?</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> Forgive me that I could not … free you any +other way.… It's not for you … it's best for me. +I have long … been ready …</p> + +<p><span class="speaker">LISA.</span> You will live!</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301">301</a></span> +<i>A Doctor bends over Fédya and listens.</i></p> + +<p><span class="speaker">FÉDYA.</span> I need no doctor to tell me … Good-bye, +Victor … Ah, Másha!… it's too late this time … +[<i>Weeps</i>] How good … how good! [<i>Dies</i>].</p> + +<p class="curtain center"><i>Curtain.</i></p> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 8em; font-size: 0.85em;">END OF “THE LIVE CORPSE.”</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" href="#FNanchor_1_1" class="label">[1]</a> Protásov is his family name, but the name by which he is +usually addressed is Fédya, an abbreviation of his Christian name—Theodore. +The ceremonious form of address would be Theodore +Vasílyevich.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" href="#FNanchor_2_2" class="label">[2]</a> Elisabeth Andréyevna is the polite way of speaking of Mrs. +Protásova, otherwise Lisa.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" href="#FNanchor_3_3" class="label">[3]</a> The polite way of naming Mr. Karénin.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" href="#FNanchor_4_4" class="label">[4]</a> The polite way of addressing Mr. Afrémov.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" href="#FNanchor_5_5" class="label">[5]</a> I wanted to speak to you alone.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" href="#FNanchor_6_6" class="label">[6]</a> I have come from your home. Your wife has entrusted me +with this letter and besides …</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" href="#FNanchor_7_7" class="label">[7]</a> About £2, 10s.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" href="#FNanchor_8_8" class="label">[8]</a> I hope I am not forcing myself on you.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" href="#FNanchor_9_9" class="label">[9]</a> You are always welcome.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" href="#FNanchor_10_10" class="label">[10]</a> He is positively bewitched!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" href="#FNanchor_11_11" class="label">[11]</a> It is all disgusting!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" href="#FNanchor_12_12" class="label">[12]</a> For them, to possess the soul is no longer enough.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" href="#FNanchor_13_13" class="label">[13]</a> She inquired whether I would receive her.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" href="#FNanchor_14_14" class="label">[14]</a> However he may have wronged her.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" href="#FNanchor_15_15" class="label">[15]</a> If she has been able to charm him to such a degree …</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" href="#FNanchor_16_16" class="label">[16]</a> That's reckoning without your host!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" href="#FNanchor_17_17" class="label">[17]</a> But it's beyond me!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" href="#FNanchor_18_18" class="label">[18]</a> You are of age.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" href="#FNanchor_19_19" class="label">[19]</a> It will depend.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" href="#FNanchor_20_20" class="label">[20]</a> May God bless them!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" href="#FNanchor_21_21" class="label">[21]</a> Under the Russian law divorce was only obtainable if ocular +evidence of adultery was forthcoming, and a great deal of perjury +was usually involved in such cases.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" href="#FNanchor_22_22" class="label">[22]</a> It is I who am the intruder.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" href="#FNanchor_23_23" class="label">[23]</a> It is surprising how he loves him—just as if he were his +father.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" href="#FNanchor_24_24" class="label">[24]</a> So much the better! Does he remember his real father?</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" href="#FNanchor_25_25" class="label">[25]</a> Say what one likes—it is a fine action.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" href="#FNanchor_26_26" class="label">[26]</a> Had Tolstoy lived to give a final revision to this play, he would +probably have made it clearer that Karénin sent a monthly payment +to the clockmaker Evgényev, in response to the request contained in +the last letter Fédya addressed to Lisa and himself; and that this +money found its way to Fédya.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" href="#FNanchor_27_27" class="label">[27]</a> Karénin does not produce Fédya's letter because it would have +proved connivance in the divorce proceedings.</p></div> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Live Corpse, by Leo Tolstoy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIVE CORPSE *** + +***** This file should be named 26664-h.htm or 26664-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/6/26664/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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