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"I would rather die," I said with fury, "than yield her to Alexis"

"I understand it all now," said the old man "You are, no doubt, in love yourself with Marie Mironoff That's another thing Poor boy! Still, I can not give you a battalion and fifty Cossacks The thing is unreasonable" I hung my head in despair But I had a plan of my own