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Euphrosyne
A Muscovite Princess whom Orlando falls in love with during the Great Frost, at which time Orlando is betrothed to Euphrosyne. Orlando and Sasha spend much time together during the festival of the Great Frost, and they make love on the frozen River Thames. Orlando and Sasha plan to run away to Russia together, but Sasha never shows up on the night they are supposed to meet. She leaves Orlando alone in the rain, cursing women.
Sasha Quotes in Orlando
The Orlando quotes below are all either spoken by Sasha or refer to Sasha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
When the boy, for alas, a boy it must be—no woman could skate with such speed and vigour—swept almost on tiptoe past him, Orlando was ready to tear his hair with vexation that the person was of his own sex, and thus all embraces were out of the question.
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Sasha Character Timeline in Orlando
The timeline below shows where the character Sasha appears in Orlando. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...is Princess Marousha Staniloska Dagmar Natasha Iliana Romanovich, but Orlando will come to call her Sasha, and she is the daughter, or perhaps the niece, of the Muscovite Ambassador. Her time...
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After the incident with the saltshaker, the “intimacy” between Orlando and Sasha becomes “the scandal of the Court.” Orlando begins to pay Sasha “far more attention than...
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Orlando doesn’t try to hide his feelings for Sasha, and he frequently finds reason to spend time with her. One day, Sasha says to...
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Orlando tells Sasha of his other loves, who, “compared with her,” are nothing but “wood,” “sackcloth,” and “cinders.”...
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Sasha is quiet as Orlando talks. When he is done recounting his entire family history, he...
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As Orlando waits for Sasha, he thinks about Euphrosyne. He is set to marry her soon, but it all seems...
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...of brandy to “revive” himself. The man was simply helping her with a heavy box, Sasha says as she turns “red” and stomps her feet. She calls “upon her Gods to...
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Back on the ice, Orlando and Sasha skate toward London. Sasha is “tenderer than usual and even more delightful. She talks of...
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...yawn—” Orlando says out loud. Suddenly, he remembers. “Jour de ma vie!” he cries to Sasha. Tonight, is the night. He will meet Sasha at an old inn where their horses...
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Orlando arrives early and waits for Sasha in the dark. He paces the courtyard listening carefully for footsteps in the dark. He...
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...he hears the clock tower in the distance strike midnight. Orlando’s “superstitious” side tells him Sasha will arrive by the sixth strike of the hour, but she doesn’t. By the twelfth...
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...of the Russian ship moving out to sea. Standing in the water, Orlando yells at Sasha “all the insults that have ever been the lot of her sex,” and the rushing...
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Chapter 2
Following the winter of the Great Frost and Orlando’s relationship with Sasha, he is “exiled from Court,” so he goes to his country house and lives “in...
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To Orlando, life is “not worth living anymore.” Sasha is gone, and he will never see her again. He sobs for hours, and Mrs....
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...dipping and flaunting.” So as Orlando dips his quill, he begins to think again of Sasha—“why had she left him?” and “was she dead?”—and then his thoughts turn to “the face...
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Chapter 4
Orlando thinks of Sasha as she approaches England. “So good-bye and adieu to you, Ladies of Spain,” she says...
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Chapter 6
...there is “yellow water” and she can see a Russian ship in the distance. “Oh, Sasha!” Orlando yells to the “fat” and “lethargic” woman her love has become. “Any napkins, towels,...
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