Note 44 — APPENDIX
Constance Garnett translation
‘I have come to ask your advice,’ a youthful Georgian, who looked like a young tiger, said to me one day, ‘I want to give Skaryatin a thrashing.’
‘No doubt you know that when Charles V. was in Rome, et cetera....’ ‘I know, I know; for God’s sake don’t tell me!’
And the tiger with milk in his veins departed.—(Author’s Note.)