:26:09
Betsy,
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-I'm beginning to lose hope.
-Whatever hope could you have?
:26:15
None.
:26:18
Excuse me. I'm afraid
I've become ridiculous.
:26:21
Oh, my dear, you're in
no danger of that.
:26:24
A man pursuing a young girl
might be ridiculous,
:26:27
but a man in love
with a married woman,
:26:30
that has something fine
and grand about it.
:26:32
It could never be ridiculous.
Next you'll be telling me
:26:35
that young girls should be
virtuous, women chaste,
:26:38
men virile, and children should be
brought up
:26:41
to pay their debts and earn their
bread and all the other nonsense.
:26:44
But look at them...
:26:47
Karenin,
:26:49
that awful Lydia lvanovna.
:26:51
So old-fashioned,
:26:54
so stuffy.
They surround her.
:26:58
When I am old and ugly,
:26:59
I'll become like them.
:27:02
For a beautiful woman
like Anna, it is too soon
:27:04
for her spirit to be crushed
by such boredom.
:27:10
We must rescue her
:27:12
before it is too late.
:27:21
Come to my house
on Saturday.
:27:36
ls it true that the younger Vlassiev
girl is going to marry Topov?
:27:39
Yes, they say it's
quite settled.
:27:41
I am surprised at her parents.
I heard it was a love match.
:27:44
A love match? What antediluvian
ideas you have.
:27:49
Who talks of love nowadays?
:27:50
That foolish old custom's
not left us yet.
:27:52
The only happy marriages are
marriages of convenience
:27:56
where both parties have sown
their wild oats.
:27:59
ln my young days, I was
in love with a deacon.