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Lisa Monologue from The Live Corpse

From The Live Corpse by Leo, graf Tolstoy

female · anguished · 1:56 min

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How can he ... KARÉNIN (continues reading) "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...." LISA (seizes Victor's hand) Victor! KARÉNIN (reads) "... must destroy myself. And I will do it. When you get this letter, I shall be no more. " P.S. 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 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, "FÉDYA."

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20s · despair · death · love · betrayal · freedom

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