In the apartment of the prison overseer: "Mary, can’t you stop just a minute?"
L. O. Pasternak, 1898-1899

In his memoirs, Pasternak wrote: "Lev Nikolaevich often would get me laughing with his inimitable humour. But I was able to amuse him, too. I remember that several of my illustrations struck him as funny; for instance, the one in which the inspector begs his daughter to stop rehearsing something on the piano.  He roared with laughter at that image."