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Works of Alexander Pushkin Part 521

DONA ANNA. I never in my life set eyes on him.

DON JUAN. But in your heart you bear him enmity?

DONA ANNA. AS honor binds me. But you're trying now,

Don Diego, to divert me from my question -

I ask...

DON JUAN. Suppose that you should meet Don Juan?

DONA ANNA. I'd plunge a dagger in the villain's heart.

DON JUAN. Where is your dagger, Dona Anna? Here's

My breast.

DONA ANNA. O Diego! What is that you say?

DON JUAN. No Diego I - my name's Juan.

DONA ANNA. - O God!

No, no, it cannot be, I don't believe...

DON JUAN. I'm Don Juan.

DONA ANNA. - It isn't true.

DON JUAN. - I killed

Your husband; and have no regrets for that -

There is no trace of penitence within me.

DONA ANNA. What do I hear? No, no, it cannot be.

DON JUAN. I'm Don Juan, and I do love you.

DONA ANNA. (Falling.) - Where,

Where am I? Where? I'm fainting!

DON JUAN. - God in Heaven!

What's happened to her? Dona Anna, what's

The matter with you? Come, wake up, wake up,

And pull yourself together; at your feet

Your slave, your Diego kneels.

DONA ANNA. - Leave me alone.

( Weakly.) You are my enemy - you took away

From me all, all that in my life...

DON JUAN. - Dear creature!

I'm ready now to expiate that blow;

I only wait your order at your feet:

Command - I'll die; command - and I shall breathe

For you alone...

DONA ANNA. - So this is Don Juan?

DON JUAN. True, is it not, he's been described to you

As an outrageous villain and a monster.

O - Dona Anna, rumor is perhaps

Not wholly wrong; upon my weary conscience

There weighs, perhaps, a heavy load of evil;