It is admirable, it is wonderful.

It is so searching and so effective that it keeps the general level of Russian intellect and education down to that of the Czar." "Come, that sounds like exaggeration." "Well, it's what they say anyway.

But I think, myself, it's a lie.

And it doesn't seem right to slander a whole nation that way, anyhow.

Now, then, you see what the material is, there in Siberia, for a republic." He paused, and his breast began to heave and his eye to burn, under the impulse of strong emotion.