We will take it at once and show it to the count.

He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.

You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his wishes; that is my only reason for being here.

I came simply to help him and you." "Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing--I know!" cried the princess.
"That's not the point, my dear." "It's that protege of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskaya, that Anna Mikhaylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid...

the infamous, vile woman!" "Do not let us lose any time..." "Ah, don't talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie--I can't repeat them--that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight.