XLIV + 

She fears she cannot.⁠—Cannot? Why?⁠— + 

She promised Eugene, or she would + 

With great delight.⁠—O God on high! + 

Heard he the truth? And thus she could⁠— + 

And can it be? But late a child + 

And now a fickle flirt and wild, + 

Cunning already to display + 

And well-instructed to betray! + 

Lenski the stroke could not sustain, + 

At womankind he growled a curse, + 

Departed, ordered out his horse + 

And galloped home. But pistols twain, + 

A pair of bullets⁠—nought beside⁠— + 

His fate shall presently decide. + 