My appointment here is a sort of punishment, for having offended the czar by not having brought up my regiment in time to take part in the fight, when you attacked us at Narva.

I saved the regiment, but that was not regarded as any excuse for having been three days longer on the march than the czar expected; so I was sent here, as a sort of dismissal from active service.
"You know no one else who could move in your matter ?" "No one.

The governor of the castle at Plescow was a surly fellow, and was reprimanded by the czar, at least so I heard, for not having treated me sufficiently well.

I was only three or four days there, and the only officer I saw besides Doctor Kelly was a friend of his, another doctor.

He was at the table when I dined with Kelly.