But at this point Shatov stepped in. ‘These men of yours never did love the people, didn’t suffer for them and sacrificed nothing for them, no matter how they themselves may have imagined they did to make themselves feel good!’ he growled sullenly, staring at the floor and shifting impatiently in his chair. ‘Are you saying that they didn’t love the people?’ Stepan Trofimovich began to shriek. ‘Oh, how they loved Russia!’ ‘Neither Russia nor the people!’ Shatov also began to shriek, his eyes flashing. ‘It’s impossible to love what you don’t know, and they had no understanding of the Russian
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