To-morrow they will come to my lodging to fetch me--a court carriage or two, and many officials who will treat me with the old respect I was used to long ago.

They will come up my little staircase, bringing money, immense quantities of money, and the papers and the parchments and the seals.

How they will stare at my poor lodging, for they have never known that I have been so wretched.

Yes, one will bring money in a black leathern case--I know just how it will look--and another will have with him a box full of documents--all lawfully mine--and a third will bring my orders, that I once wore, and with them the order of Saint Alexander Nevsky and a letter on broad heavy paper, signed Alexander Alexandrovitch, signed by the Tsar himself, Vjera.

And I shall go with them to be received in audience by the Prince Regent here, before I leave for Petersburg.