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SCENE St Petersburg Period the present time A ballroom in the winter palace of the prince The ladies in character costumes and masks The gentlement in official dress and unmasked with the exception of six tall figures in scarlet kaftans who are treated with marked distinction as they move here and there among the promenaders Quadrille music throughout the dialogue	A
Count SERGIUS PAVLOVICH PANSHINE who has just arrived is standing anxiously in the doorway of an antechamber with his eyes fixed upon the lady in the costume of a maid of honor in the time of Catharine II The lady presently disengages herself from the crowd and passes near count PANSHINE who impulsively takes her by the hand and leads her across the threshold of the inner apartment which is unoccupied	B
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HE	C
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Pauline	D
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SHE	C
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You knew me	C
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HE	C
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How could I have failed	E
A mask may hide your features not your soul	F
There is an air about you like the air	G
That folds a star A blind man knows the night	H
And feels the constellations No coarse sense	I
Of eye or ear had made you plain to me	C
Through these I had not found you for your eyes	J
As blue as the violets of our Novgorod	K
Look black behind your mask there and your voice	L
I had not known that either My heart said	M
Pauline Pavlovna	D
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SHE	C
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Ah your heart said that	N
You trust your heart then 'T is a serious risk	O
How is it you and others wear no mask	P
HE	C
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The Emperor's orders	Q
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SHE	C
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Is the Emperor here	R
I have not seen him	S
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HE	C
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He is one of the six	T
In scarlet kaftans and all masked alike	U
Watch you will note how every one bows down	D
Before these figures thinking each by chance	V
May be the Tsar yet none knows which he is	W
Even his counterparts are left in doubt	X
Unhappy Russia No serf ever wore	Y
Such chains as gall our emperor these sad days	Z
He dare trust no man	D
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SHE	C
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All men are so false	A2
HE	C
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Spare one Pauline Pavlovna	D
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SHE	C
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No all all	B2
I think there is no truth left in the world	C2
In man or woman Once were noble souls	D2
Count Sergius is Nastasia here to night	H
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HE	C
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Ah then you know I thought to tell you first	E2
Not here beneath these hundred curious eyes	J
In all this glare of light but in some place	F2
Where I could throw me at your feet and weep	G2
In what shape came the story to your ear	R
Decked in the teller's colors I'll be sworn	D
The truth but in the livery of a lie	H2
And so must wrong me Only this is true	I2
The Tsar because I risked my wretched life	J2
To shield a life as wretched as my own	D
Bestows upon me as supreme reward	K2
O irony the hand of this poor girl	L2
Says Here I have the pearl of pearls for you	I2
Such as was never plucked from out of the deep	G2
By Indian diver for a Sultan's crown	D
Your joy's decreed and stabs me with a smile	M2
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SHE	C
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And she she loves you	I2
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HE	C
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I know not indeed	N2
Likes me Perhaps What matters it her love	O2
The guardian Sidor Yurievich consents	P2
And she consents No love in it at all	B2
A mere caprice a young girl's spring tide dream	Q2
Sick of ear rings weary of her mare	G
She'll have a lover something ready made	R2
Or improvised between two cups of tea	C
A lover by imperial ukase	Z
Fate said her word I chanced to be the man	D
If that grenade the crazy student threw	I2
Had not spared me as well as spared the Tsar	S2
All this would not have happened I'd have been	D
A hero but quite safe from her romance	V
She takes me for a hero think of that	N
Now by our holy Lady of Kazan	D
When I have finished pitying myself	T2
I'll pity her	U2
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SHE	C
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Oh no begin with her	U2
She needs it most	V2
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HE	C
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At her door lies the blame	W2
Whatever falls She with a single word	X2
With half a tear had stopt it at the first	E2
This cruel juggling with poor human hearts	Y2
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SHE	C
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The Tsar commanded it you said the Tsar	S2
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HE	C
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The Tsar does what she wills God fathoms why	H2
Were she his mistress now but there's no snow	D
Whiter within the bosom of a cloud	Z2
Nor colder wither She is very haughty	C
For all her fragile air of gentleness	A3
With something vital in her like those flowers	Q
That on our desolate steppes outlast the year	B3
Resembles you in some things It was that	N
First made us friends I do her justice see	C
For we were friends in that smooth surface way	C3
We Russians have imported out of France	V
Alas from what a blue and tranquil heaven	D
This bolt fell on me After these two years	D3
My suit with Ossip Leminoff at an end	E3
The old wrong righted the estates restored	K2
And my promotion with the ink not dry	H2
Those fairies which neglected me at birth	F3
Seemed now to lavish all good gifts on me	C
Gold roubles office sudden dearest friends	G3
The whole world smiled Then as I stooped to taste	H3
The sweetest cup freak dashed it from my lip	I3
This very night just think this very night	H
I planned to come and beg of you the alms	J3
I dared not ask for in my poverty	C
I thought me poor then How stript am I now	D
There's not a ragged medicant one meets	K3
Along the Nevski Prospeky but has leave	L3
To tell his love and I have not that right	H
Pauline Pavlovna why do you stand there	G
Stark as a statue with no word to say	C3
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SHE	C
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Because this thing has frozen up my heart	M3
I think that there is something killed in me	C
A dream that would have mocked all other bliss	N3
What shall I say What would you have me say	C3
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HE	C
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If it be possible the word of words	O3
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SHE very slowly	C
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Well then I love you I may tell you so	D
This once and then forever hold my peace	P3
We cannot stay here longer unobserved	M3
No do not touch me but stand further off	Q3
And seem to laugh as if we jested eyes	J
Eyes everywhere Now turn your face away	C3
I love you	I2
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HE	C
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With such music in my ears	D3
I would death found me It were sweet to die	M3
Listening You love me prove it	M3
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SHE	C
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Prove it how	D
I prove saying it How else	R3
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HE	C
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Pauline	D
I have three things to choose from you shall choose	S3
This marriage or Siberia or France	V
The first means hell the second purgatory	C
The third with you were nothing less than heaven	D
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SHE starting	T3
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How dared you even dream it	M3
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HE	C
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I was mad	M3
This business has touched me in the brain	D
Have parience the calamity's so new	I2
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Pause	U3
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There is a fourth way but that gate is shut	M3
To brave men who hold life a thing of God	M3
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SHE	C
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Yourself spoke there the rest was not of you	I2
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HE	C
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Oh lift me to your level So I'm safe	V3
What's to be done	D
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SHE	C
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There must be some path out	M3
Perhaps the Emperor	U2
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HE	C
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Not a ray of hope	W3
His mind is set on this with that insistence	X3
Which seems to seize on all match making folk	Y3
The fancy bites them and they straight go mad	M3
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SHE	C
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Your father's friend the Metropolitan	D
A word from him	S
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HE	C
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Alas he too is bitten	D
Gray haired gray hearted worldly wise he sees	Z3
This marriage makes me the Tsar's prot g	C
And opens every door to preference	X3
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SHE	C
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Think while I think There surely is some key	C
Unlocks the labyrinth could we but find it	M3
Nastasia	C
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HE	C
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What beg life of her not I	M3
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SHE	C
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Beg love She is a woman young perhaps	A4
Untouched as yet of this too poisonous air	G
Were she told all would she not pity us	A3
For if she love you as I think she must	M3
Would not some generous impulse stir in her	U2
Some latent unsuspected spark illume	S
How love thrills even commonest girl clay	C3
Ennobling it an instant if no more	Y
You said that she is proud then touch her pride	M3
And turn her into marble at the touch	C
But yet the gentler passion is the stronger	U2
Go to her tell her in some tenderest phrase	Z
That will not hurt too much ah but 't will hurt	M3
Just how your happiness lies in her hand	M3
To make or mar for all time hint not say	C3
Your heart is gone from you and y	-