That's a thing I hate! Everything is possible.

" "Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world," said the countess.

" But I am in great need of this sum.

" "You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study.

When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her.