Why don't you ever say anything like that yourself, so shortly and to the point, instead of dragging things out to such a length?
That's much better than what you said just now about administrative ardour..." _"Ma foi, chere..." _why?
In the first place probably because I'm not a Pascal after all, _et puis_...

secondly, we Russians never can say anything in our own language....

We never have said anything hitherto, at any rate...." "H'm! That's not true, perhaps.

Anyway, you'd better make a note of such phrases, and remember them, you know, in case you have to talk....
Ach, Stephan Trofimovitch.

I have come to talk to you seriously, quite seriously." _"Chere, chere amie!"_ "Now that all these Von Lembkes and Karmazinovs....