Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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And serve him right: on strict examination, he, having called his own self to a secret court, accused himself of much: 4 first, it had been already wrong of him to make fun of a timid, tender love so casually yesternight 5 and secondly: why, let a poet 8 indulge in nonsense! At eighteen 'tis pardonable. Eugene, loving the youth with all his heart, ought to have shown himself to be 12 no bandyball of prejudices, no fiery boy, no scrapper, but a man of honor and of sense.