"Oh, my angel! Do you call the man so to whom you owe so much?"
"Owe so much? to you? I, who picked you up from the gutter?"
"But I have given you my good name."
"Good name! A name dragged through every mean vice, and every blackest sin----"
"And yet good enough for the friend and----"
"Have a care!"
"Why? The heavens are high, and the czar is afar off. But you are quite right in demanding that too much importance should not be attached to this connection. The whole world knows pretty well that, in some respects, no rank or position came amiss to you."
"That goes too far. I----"
"Keep quiet, ma chére! I hear a carriage coming. No doubt, our dear ones. We must give them an example of conjugal love."
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