That's a great and, splendid nation, and deserves to be set free." He paused, then added in a quite matter-of-fact way, "When I get this money I'm going to set it free." "Great guns!" "Why, what makes you jump like that ?" "Dear me, when you are going to drop a remark under a man's chair that is likely to blow him out through the roof, why don't you put some expression, some force, some noise unto it that will prepare him?
You shouldn't flip out such a gigantic thing as this in that colorless kind of a way.

You do jolt a person up, so.

Go on, now, I'm all right again.
Tell me all about it.

I'm all interest--yes, and sympathy, too." "Well, I've looked the ground over, and concluded that the methods of the Russian patriots, while good enough considering the way the boys are hampered, are not the best; at least not the quickest.

They are trying to revolutionize Russia from within; that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to interruption all the time, and is full of perils for the workers.