Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXIX

An incorrect and careless patter, an inexact delivery of words, as heretofore a flutter of the heart 4 will in my breast produce5 in me there's no force to repent5 to me will Gallicisms remain as sweet as the sins of past youth, 8 as Bogdanovich's verse. But that will do. 'Tis time I busied myself with my fair damsel's letter; my word I've given-and what now? Yea, yea! 12 I'm ready to back out of it. I know: tender Pamy's pen in our days is out of fashion.