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I had to light something ... I couldn't find my candle
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Papa, what's gong on?
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Did we wake you darling?
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No, I was reading by the light of the drapes.
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Oh, my God. This is so romantic. I just wish my feet weren't bleeding.
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I'm sorry, Count Yousekevitch, but marriage is a very big step to take and I don't wish to make it while I do not have the intelligence to know what I am stepping into.
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But is it true? If I cannot teach Sophia to think in twenty-four hours, she will never be able to love me?
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Leon!
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Sophia! Are you all right?
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I must talk to you. Someplace where we'll not be seen.
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Wherever you say.
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Can you meet me here?
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Yes. When?
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Now!
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Now? Yes. Of course. That's where I am.
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Come up here. Hurry, Leon, hurry. It's of the utmost importance. I overheard your conversation with the Count. Leon, I cannot be taught. You must leave Kulyenchikov at once.
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Never without you.
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Then take me with you. Tonight.
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But the curse -
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It cannot be boken. But we can live in the swamp and eat brown roots and I will bcome old and ugly and more stupid and more ignorant and never love you but at least we'll be together.
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Well, that wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
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Then we are lost.
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No, no, Sophia. I will teach you. I will break this curse. Tomorrow, I promise you.
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Oh, Leon, I wish I could love you.
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You will, Sophia. Tomorrow, I promise you.
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Until tomorrow ................ Leon! Come back! Hurry, hurry.
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What is it?
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I couldn't sleep. I'm so frightened.
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Don't be frightened, Sophia.
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If I could know the feeling of loving you for just one day, I would endure a hundred thousand years of curses.
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She asks not to be loved, but to know what it means to give her love to another. ........... There fore, I wish us both the best of luck.
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Leon! I forgot to tell you something!
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Listen! I hear footsteps coming down the stairs.
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Good morning, Mama. Good morning, Papa. Good morning, schoolmaster.
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Only a miracle can save us, Sophia,but witha majestic, supreme effort, we must try to make this miracle happen.
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What is a miracle?
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A miracle is a wish that God makes. You are a miracle, Sophia.
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You mean God wished for me.
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In one of his most sublime moments . . . We must hurry, Sophia. This is a primary book of mathematics. It's used to teach very small children very simple problems in arithmetic.
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Do you think it's too advanced for me?
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