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The triple formula "I will not have stolen it" (je ne l'aurai pas volé) is a French idiom meaning "I will have truly earned it / it won't come easy." Marie repeats it with passion, underscoring that whatever success she achieves will have been hard-won. The middle variant "I will not have veiled it" (voilé) may be a slip of the pen for volé (stolen). ↩
Kharkov (Kharkiv): the major city of northeastern Ukraine, considerably larger and more cosmopolitan than Poltava, which served as the regional fashion centre for the surrounding province. ↩