Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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directs Onegin? You beforehand have guessed already. Yes, exactly: apace to her, to his Tatiana, 4 my unreformed eccentric comes. He walks in, looking like a corpse. There's not a soul in the front hall. He enters the reception room. On! No one. 8 A door he opens… What is it that strikes him with such force? The princess before him, alone, sits, unadorned, pale, reading 12 some kind of letter, and softly sheds a flood of tears, her cheek propped on her hand.