"Quite ready," they replied.
"Hand it over."
They gave it to him.
The carriage was already harnessed, and the coachman and the postillion
were in their places. The Cossacks immediately seated themselves beside
the coachman, and raised their whips over him, and, after executing a
flourish, held them so.
Platoff tore off the green case, opened the casket, drew the golden
snuff-box from the soft cotton, and from the snuff-box the diamond as
big as a walnut, and beheld the English flea lying there exactly as
before, and nothing else whatever.
Says Platoff: "What's this? And where is your work, wherewith you
wished to solace the Emperor?"