If you do not make it clear to me it will be a fool's errand." "It is perfectly clear, my dear sir," insisted Mr.Bellingham.

"You go to St.Petersburg; you get an audience--you can do that by means of the letters; you lay the matter before the Czar, and request justice.

Either you get it or you do not.

That is the beauty of an autocratic country." "How about a free country ?" asked Claudius.
"You don't get it," replied his host grimly.

Claudius laughed a cloud of smoke into the air.
"Why is that ?" he asked idly, hoping to launch Mr.Bellingham into further aphorisms and paradoxes.
"Men are everywhere born free, but they--" "Oh," said Claudius, "I want to know your own opinion about it." "I have no opinion; I only have experience," answered the other.