| A beauty won't go crazy!
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| And I would be glad to forget her, there is no strength to forget.
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| In vain did I think to end the matter with honor, in vain did I send matchmakers to my father.
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| The merchant ordered me to say flatly: we thank the boyar for the kindness, and I promised my daughter to another, Ivan Lykov, that I had recently returned from overseas lands here.
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| (Moves away from the window.)
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| Where did you go the old daring,
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| Where have the days of dashing fun gone?
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| I am not the same now - everything is over,
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| Courage does not gladden my soul,
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| And the wild little head drooped.
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| I don't recognize myself now
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| I don't recognize Grigory Gryazny.
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| Where did you go the old daring,
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| Where have the days of dashing fun gone?
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| Not that I have become now, not that I have become.
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| It used to be that we, a little girl at heart, would descend at night,
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| The door was torn off the hook, the beauty was on the top three, and he went.
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| They swooped in, and remember what your name was.
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| Not a few of them I stole in kind,
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| not a few of them sped away on greyhound horses
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| and with youthful maidenly beauty he entertained his hot blood.
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| I don't recognize myself now, I don't recognize Grigory Gryazny.
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| I am not the same now. |
| Why violence?
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| Not a whim, but love crushes my soul.
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| How it will end, what will be ahead, I do not know myself.
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| And Lykov Ivashka can’t go round with Marfa!
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| Invited guests. |
| I want to forget about them.
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| Will only Elisha Bomelius come? |
| I need him more than anyone. |