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The Inspector General
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Scene VII
Khlestakov alone.
KHLESTAKOV. It’s just as if I had eaten nothing at all, upon my word. It has only whetted my appetite. If I only had some change to send to the market and buy some bread.
OSIP [entering]. The Governor has come, I don’t know what for. He’s inquiring about you.
KHLESTAKOV [in alarm]. There now! That innkeeper has gone and made a complaint against me. Suppose he really claps me into jail? Well! If he does it in a gentlemanly way, I may— No, no, I won’t. The officers and the people are all out on the street and I set the fashion for them and the merchant’s daughter and I flirted. No, I won’t. And pray, who is he? How dare he, actually? What does he take me for? A tradesman? I’ll tell him straight out, "How dare you? How—"
[The door knob turns and Khlestakov goes pale and shrinks back.]
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Chicago: Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, "Scene VII," The Inspector General, ed. Nathen Haskell Dole and trans. Seltzer, Thomas in The Inspector General (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921), Original Sources, accessed March 26, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3Y36DS5PM8YKA3W.
MLA: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich. "Scene VII." The Inspector General, edited by Nathen Haskell Dole, and translated by Seltzer, Thomas, in The Inspector General, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1921, Original Sources. 26 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3Y36DS5PM8YKA3W.
Harvard: Gogol, NV, 'Scene VII' in The Inspector General, ed. and trans. . cited in 1921, The Inspector General, Henry Holt and Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 26 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3Y36DS5PM8YKA3W.
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