You know they hadn't heard till they came about the tricks Nicolas played here four years ago.

'You were here, you saw it, is it true that he is mad ?' Where they got the idea I can't make out.

Why is it that Praskovya is so anxious Nicolas should be mad?
The woman will have it so, she will.

_Ce Maurice,_ or what's his name, Mavriky Nikolaevitch, _brave homme tout de meme..._ but can it be for his sake, and after she wrote herself from Paris to _cette pauvre amie ?...

Enfin,_ this Praskovya, as _cette chere amie_ calls her, is a type.