No, not a general, but every bit as good as a general, I tell you. Such culture! Such dignified manners! (ANNA: Ah! So he is the same as the one my husband got a letter about.) Exactly. It was Piotr Ivanovich and I who first discovered him. (ANNA: Tell me, tell me all about it.) It's all right now, thank the Lord. At first he received Anton Antonovich rather roughly. He was angry and said the inn was not run properly, and he wouldn't come to the Governor's house and he didn't want to go to jail on account of him. But then when he found out that Anton Antonovich was not to blame and they got to talking more intimately, he changed right away, and, thank Heaven, everything went well. They've gone now to inspect the philanthropic institutions. I confess that Anton Antonovich had already begun to suspect that a secret denunciation had been lodged against him. I myself was trembling a little, too.

Dobchinsky Monologue from The Inspector-General

Rehearse Dobchinsky's monologue