2 “It seemed strange to us”: Ibid.,
3 “satisfied and pleased with me”: Ibid., 107
4 “I fear he may fall in love”: Ibid., 104
5 “At last my wish is fulfilled”: Kaus, 84
6 “this might serve his purposes”:
7 “He did not tell us what it was”: Ibid., 109
8 “a disrespectful little boy”: Ibid., 110
9 “let fly at him”: Ibid.
10 “We were dumfounded”: Ibid.
11 “She was like a Fury”: Ibid., 111
12 “One must admit”: Ibid
13 “We beg your pardon, Mama”: Ibid.
14 “had a great liking for the bottle”: Ibid., 112
15 “Your Highness should bear in mind”: Ibid., 116
16 “You talk and think of nothing”: Ibid.
17 “I cannot speak to you like this”: Ibid., 117
18 “The grand duke is asking for you”: Ibid.
19 “No, my father”: Ibid., 123
16. A WATCHDOG
1 “Her Highness has been selected”: Oldenbourg, 110
2 “In the two years I had been in Russia”:
3 “Now, as I was married”: Herzen, 66
4 “I know quite well”:
5 “I could not save myself by flight”: Ibid.
6 “such talk would displease the empress”: Ibid., 119
7 “In those days”: Ibid., 123
8 “Never did two minds resemble each other less”: Ibid., 129
17. “HE WAS NOT A KING”
1 “your father was not a king”: Ibid., 130
2 “Apparently, my words carried conviction”: Ibid.
3 “This was a dreadful blow for us”: Ibid., 127
4 “Within a few days”: Ibid., 128
5 “a gentle, reasonable man”: Ibid.
6 “The grand duke and I”: Ibid., 133
7 “In his distress, the grand duke”: Ibid., 128
8 “There were moments”: Ibid., 129
18. IN THE BEDROOM
1 “It seems to me that I was good for something else”: Kaus, 101
2 “The least rabbi of Petersburg”: Kaus, 94
19. A HOUSE COLLAPSES
1 “Get up and get out”:
2 “like the waves of the sea”: Ibid., 142
3 “Immediately afterward”: Herzen, 89
4 “That, as to my stupidity”:
5 “To show how useless this kind of order is”: Herzen, 84
6 “often slipped me useful … information”: Ibid.
7 “This is from your mother”:
20. SUMMER PLEASURES
1 “a large, stupid, clumsy girl”:
