She's Gogol's Madame Box, of immortal memory, only she's a spiteful Madame Box, a malignant Box, and in an immensely exaggerated form." "That's making her out a regular packing-case if it's an exaggerated form." "Well, perhaps it's the opposite; it's all the same, only don't interrupt me, for I'm all in a whirl.

They are all at loggerheads, except Lise, she keeps on with her 'Auntie, auntie!' but Lise's sly, and there's something behind it too.Secrets.She has quarrelled with the old lady.

_Cette pauvre_ auntie tyrannises over every one it's true, and then there's the governor's wife, and the rudeness of local society, and Karmazinov's 'rudeness'; and then this idea of madness, _ce Lipoutine, ce que je ne comprends pas..._ and...

and they say she's been putting vinegar on her head, and here are we with our complaints and letters....

Oh, how I have tormented her and at such a time! _Je suis un ingrat!_ Only imagine, I come back and find a letter from her; read it, read it! Oh, how ungrateful it was of me!" He gave me a letter he had just received from Varvara Petrovna.