[Huntingtower by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookHuntingtower CHAPTER XI 5/38
D'you mind if I ask a question, Princess? Bolshevism we know all about, and I admit Trotsky and his friends are a pretty effective push; but how on earth have they got a world-wide graft going in the time so that they can stretch their net to an out-of-the-way spot like this? It looks as if they had struck a Napoleon somewhere." "You do not understand," she said.
"I cannot make any one understand--except a Russian.
My country has been broken to pieces, and there is no law in it; therefore it is a nursery of crime.
So would England be, or France, if you had suffered the same misfortunes. My people are not wickeder than others, but for the moment they are sick and have no strength.
As for the government of the Bolsheviki it matters little, for it will pass.
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