He loved these poor helpless peasants with a love as large as and a thousand times less practical than Paul's.
In the meantime Paul was thinking in his clear, direct way.

It was this man's habit in life and in thought to walk straight past the side issues.
"It is like you, Stepan," he said at length, "to come to us at this time.

We feel it, and we recognize the generosity of it, for Steinmetz and I know the danger you are running in coming back to this country.
But we cannot let you do it--No, do not protest.

It is quite out of the question.

We might quell the revolt; no doubt we should--the two of us together.