He began to talk, his voice shaking with excitement.

"Do you know, Ivan Andreievitch, I am continually surprised at myself: 'Here you are, Andrey Vassilievitch, here, at the war.

What do you make of it?
?
I say to myself.

Just consider....

No, but seriously, Ivan Andreievitch, of course I must seem to all of you something of a comic figure.