Vulgar words in Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] - A Romance of Russian Life in Verse (Page 1)

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IV Though beauty he no more adored, He still made love in a queer way; Rebuffed--as quickly reassured, Jilted--glad of a holiday.

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XXVI Bringing his partner corpulent Fat Poustiakoff drove to the door; Gvozdine, a landlord excellent, Oppressor of the wretched poor; And the Skatenines, aged pair, With all their progeny were there, Who from two years to thirty tell; Petoushkoff, the provincial swell; Bouyanoff too, my cousin, wore(58) His wadded coat and cap with peak (Surely you know him as I speak); And Flianoff, pensioned councillor, Rogue and extortioner of yore, Now buffoon, glutton, and a bore.

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But one buffoon unhappy deemed Her the ideal which he dreamed, And leaning 'gainst the portal closed To her an elegy composed.

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Why pursue Me now, inflict upon me pain?-- Wherefore am I your quarry held?-- Is it that I am now compelled To move in fashionable life, That I am rich, a prince's wife?-- Because my lord, in battles maimed, Is petted by the Emperor?-- That my dishonour would ensure A notoriety proclaimed, And in society might shed A bastard fame prohibited?

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