"I've strummed enough for you." "I beg you most particularly, sit down and play.

Don't you care to do anything for the cause ?" "But I assure you, Arina Prohorovna, nobody is eavesdropping.

It's only your fancy.

Besides, the windows are high, and people would not understand if they did hear." "We don't understand ourselves," some one muttered.

"But I tell you one must always be on one's guard.