"Jelagin, did you see the pretty woman with whom I danced the mazurka to-night?"
"Yes, I saw her. Are you smitten with her, as others have been?"
"That woman I must make my wife."
Jelagin gave the Cossack a blow on the shoulder and looked into his eyes.
"That you will not do! You will not take her as your wife, friend Jemeljan."
"I shall marry her—I have resolved to do so."
"You will not marry her, for she will not go to you."
"If she does not come I will carry her off against her will."
"You can't marry her, because she has a husband."
"If she has a husband I will carry her off in company with him!"