Character: count Merzaev

- The doctor forbade me to get up. and in front of ladies it is ignoble to flaunt ranks.

- Am I a stranger to them? Well, you say, Mr. good!

I can understand when a pretender to the throne. But the pretender on the block...

I'm not married name, I had more serious intentions. I wanted to make you her boyfriend.

- Your Excellency, can we have an English machine to try it out?
- And, well, no wonder you bought it... and if any.
- Brand new! Here, Your Ladyship, the man seems to be not need, and need only his finger!
Yes. In the most technical sense, we, of course, to them away.
- So... You Afonka she'll be the first. A good thing, will be satisfied!

- So few that being drunk is breccia? All talk.
- Talk everything. Not all writing.

- Well, you, my regiment not Mara. My eagles do not read Newspapers, books, eyes have not seen - any ideas have not!
- Don't overpraise, Ivan Antonych.

We have a prison strong, not just colonels, generals calm.

Give me instructions and a special I him something and he will do it.

- Maybe easier to hang you, honey?
- So... Your Excellency... the rope is surely a fake will not do!
- For such cases, and this is not a pity.

- What is that ignorant?
- Only a cornet, and allows himself as...
- Pletnev.
- How? How?
- Pletnev Lyosha. Bastard! Hero! And cornet, Mr. Governor, he was demoted for a duel.
- The duel was over a lady?
- Of course Madam. Because of the two!

- Cope with his new role - will be rewarded generously. Maybe freestyle ladies. Wants to will something?
- No! No! What I have not seen?!

- Yegorych!
- Huh? Listen!
- Stand over there at that lime.
- Your Excellency, it's not a fake, it's oak.
- Yes? And looks like lime...