And if it should be supposed that no such notion could possibly have been broached, let the reader remember that these events took place not many years after the French had been driven out of Russia, and that various prophets had since declared that Napoleon was Antichrist, and would one day escape from his island prison to exercise universal sway on earth.
Bai bitxiak jaun funtzionario haiek eta, orokorrean, beste edozein gizarte-mailatako herritarrak oro! Ondo asko zekiten Nozdriov gezurti hutsa zela, ezin ziotela hitz bat bera ere sinetsi, nahiz eta hutsalkeriarik hutsalena esan, baina, hain zuzen ere, berarengana jo zuten. Nork ulertu gizabanakoa?