Telegin reflects on his life of misfortune and the abandonment he suffered the day after his wedding. Despite a lifetime of loneliness and unrequited loyalty, he expresses a profound philosophy of endurance, hope, and the necessity of remaining a kind person.
TELEGIN: I am a man of misfortune. I have always been a man of misfortune. My wife left me on the day after our wedding, for a man she loved. And I, I have loved her ever since. I have never remarried. I have never found another love. I have just lived my life, quietly, patiently, enduring my fate.
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