incomprehensible and infinite.
Well, so this is how we meet.
Until the very last moment,
he often spoke of you.
When I heard you were safe,
it made me so glad.
It was the best piece of news that
we had received in a long time.
Imagine, I'd never had any news
of him.
So I thought he'd been killed.
What I did hear was generally
hearsay, through strangers.
All I knew was he'd landed
by a miracle at the Rostovs.
Strange thing, Fate!
Don't you recognize her?
If I were somebody else,
good-Iooking, intelligent and the
best of men, and if I were free,
I would be right now at your feet
asking for your hand and for
your love.
And hurrah for the whole world!
And I say,
let us all take one another's hand,
all of us who believe in goodness,
and let there be but one banner,
that of active good will.
I only mean that thoughts
that have important consequences
are always simple.
All my thinking could be
summed up with these words:
Since corrupt people unite
among themselves
to constitute a force,
honest people
must do the same.
It is as simple as that.
The End