" I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble note.

I am in such a state....

My only hope now is in Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov.

If he will not assist his godson--you know he is Bory's godfather--and allow him something for his maintenance, all my trouble will have been thrown away....

I shall not be able to equip him.