Sonya attempts to comfort her despairing uncle by offering a vision of peace and spiritual redemption after a lifetime of toil. She argues that their current suffering and hard work will be rewarded in the afterlife, where they will finally find the rest that eludes them now.
SONYA: What can we do? We must live our lives. We must work. We must endure. We must be patient. And we will be patient. We will bear the trials that fate sends us. We will work for others, now and in our old age, and we will know no rest. And when our hour comes, we will lie down meekly and die, an
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