16 “constantly smoked”: Ibid.
17 “I underwent agonies”: Herzen, 197
18 “I saw as clear as day”:
19 “He knew how to conceal his faults”: Ibid., 200
20 “Has he not committed”: Alexander, 63
29. RETALIATION
1 “I had a superb dress made”:
2 “I treated them with profound contempt”: Herzen, 198
3 “One day, His Imperial Highness”:
4 “he could have saved himself”: Herzen, 201
5 “he got nothing”:
6 “shuddered to think”: Herzen, 203
7 “Those accursed Germans”:
8 “a freakish prank”: Ibid., 236
9 “We have become the servants”: Ibid.
10 “as far away as I could”: Ibid
30. THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR
1 “It was not difficult to talk”:
2 “a stumbling block”: Ibid.
3 “nowhere are people quicker”: Ibid., 240
4 “The empress’s health”: Kaus, 138
5 “A man at my age”: Cronin, 105
6 “I have some hesitation”: Troyat, 87
7 “Whatever may be further given”: Kaus, 143
31. A DIPLOMATIC EARTHQUAKE
1 “I have heard with pleasure”: Kaus, 144–45
32. PONIATOWSKI
1 “An excellent education”: Haslip, 71
2 “A severe education”: Poniatowski, 157
3 “She was twenty-five”: Madariaga,
4 “I cannot deny myself the pleasure”: Oldenbourg, 178
33. A DEAD RAT
1 “You ought to go and see her”:
2 “The evening passed”: Ibid., 243
3 “Sometimes at the theater”: Ibid., 244,
4 “like a servant girl”: Haslip, 76
5 “Tell me how much you know”:
6 “there is no worse traitor”: Ibid., 249
7 “in the present critical and delicate”: Haslip, 82
8 “I pressed her strongly”: Anthony, 137
34. CATHERINE CHALLENGES BROCKDORFF
1 “They tell me he is suspected”:
2 “If such things are done: Ibid., 249
3 “Come to my apartment”: Ibid., 255.
4 “Speak to the grand duchess”: Ibid.
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6 “He took money from everyone”: Ibid.
7 “Look at this devil of a fellow”: Ibid., 257
8 “The great problem lay in the fact”: Ibid., 258
9 “Well, you began very young”: Ibid., 259
