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*‘There are,’ he said, ‘lines that sing so straight out from the heart that they cannot be spoken, and such a sacred object cannot be brought out before the public,’ (well, then, why did he bring it out?)*

‘But the Devil only knows what he’s saying,’ von Lembke objected. ‘I can’t treat him with tolerance when he asserts in public and in my presence that the government is deliberately plying the people with vodka in order to brutalize them and in that way keep them from rebelling. Imagine the role I have to play when I’m forced to listen to this in the presence of others.’

"Mr Karmazinov quite obviously had in mind his relations with the progressive young people of both capitals. The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the keys to Russia’s future, sucked up to them shamelessly, mainly because they paid absolutely no attention to him."