"You zay you nod 'ide.

You zay you show himselves.

It is all nuzzinks.

Ven you vant talk importance you run yourselves in a dark box!" The President seemed to take the foreigner's incoherent satire with entire good humour.
"You can't get hold of it yet, Gogol," he said in a fatherly way.

"When once they have heard us talking nonsense on that balcony they will not care where we go afterwards.