Do you know that it was all too transparent on purpose, that those...

who had to, might understand it.

Do you understand that ?" "I don't understand." "_Tant mieux; passons._ I am very irritable to-day." "But why have you been arguing with him, Stepan Trofimovitch ?" I asked him reproachfully.
"_Je voulais convertir_--you'll laugh of course--_cette pauvre_ auntie, _elle entendra de belles choses!_ Oh, my dear boy, would you believe it.
I felt like a patriot.

I always recognised that I was a Russian, however...

a genuine Russian must be like you and me.