KHLESTAKOV. Lend me some, lend me some. Then
I'll settle up immediately with the landlord. I only want
two hundred rubles. Even less would do.

GOVERNOR. There's just two hundred rubles. [Giving
him the money.] Don't bother to count it.

KHLESTAKOV [taking it]. Very much obliged to you.
I'll send it back to you as soon as I get home. I just
suddenly found myself without-- H'm-- I see you are
a gentleman. Now it's all different.

GOVERNOR [aside]. Well, thank the Lord, he's taken
the money. Now I suppose things will move along
smoothly. I slipped four hundred instead of two into his
hand.

KHLESTAKOV. Ho, Osip! [Osip enters.] Tell the
servant to come. [To the Governor and Dobchinsky.]
Please be seated. [To Dobchinsky.] Please take a
seat, I beg of you.

GOVERNOR. Don't trouble. We can stand.

KHLESTAKOV. But, please, please be seated. I now
see perfectly how open-hearted and generous you are. I
confess I thought you had come to put me in-- [To
Dobchinsky.] Do take a chair.

The Governor and Dobchinsky sit down. Bobchinsky