1 Madam," he said, "either you are declining to understand what I say or you are talking for the mere sake of talking.
2 Once upon a time I believed you to be a good fellow, but now I see that you don't understand civility.
3 "I cannot understand it," said Chichikov to himself.
4 Consequently things resulted, not in master and men failing to understand one another, but in their not singing together, in their not producing the very same note.
5 Pardon me," went on his interlocutor, "but I do not quite understand you.
6 "I quite understand," Chichikov thought to himself.
7 I, too, cannot understand," remarked Chichikov, "how a man of your appearance can find things wearisome.
8 Yes, but, pardon me, I still fail to understand why you should find life wearisome.
9 "Yet I cannot understand WHY he should fall asleep and grow mouldy in that fashion," said Platon.
10 I will send corn to the localities where famine is worst," said Murazov, "for I understand that sort of work better than do the tchinovniks, and will personally see to the needs of each person.
11 I make it to those of you who understand wherein lies nobility of thought.
12 'The curtains here,' he explained, seeing she did not understand him.
13 Nature, too, is foolery in the sense you understand it.
14 And he looked round, as though trying to understand how it was possible to have no feeling for nature.
15 The following means, among others, is in great vogue, 'is quite a favourite,' as the English say; a high official suddenly ceases to understand the simplest words, assuming total deafness.