"I am a Republican, that is all.

Seulement, our Holy Russia does not distinguish." "Is not the distinction very subtle ?" "The difference between salvation by education and salvation by dynamite; the difference between building up and tearing down, between Robespierre and Monsieur Washington." "You must have been indiscreet.

How could they have found it out ?" "I was bete enough to write an article in the _Russki Mir_--the mildest of articles.

And then some of the Nihilist agents thought I was in their interests and wanted to see me, and the police observed them, and I was at once classed as a Nihilist myself, and there was a perquisition in my house.

They found some notes and a few manuscripts of mine, quite enough to suit their purpose, and so the game was up." "But they did not arrest you ?" "No.