Poznámky
Marie was born in 1858 at Gavrontsi, near Poltava, so the tirade is aimed at her own compatriots. She has just arrived at Poltava, where her sick father is holding up the return to Paris she longs for; two paragraphs later she calls a two-hour harangue of the same kind, delivered to the family, her «terrible vengeance» on the world. ↩
Je ne l'aurai pas volé: «I shall have earned it». The middle form, voilé, may be a slip for volé. ↩
Kharkov (Kharkiv): the major city of north-eastern Ukraine. ↩