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Over
ever
face
there
passed
a
shudder
.
Yet
the
Prince
had
spoken
calmly
,
and
not
a
trace
of
anger
or
any
other
kind
of
emotion
had
been
visible
on
his
features
.
"
Nevertheless
,
"
he
went
on
,
"
the
very
man
in
whose
hands
the
fate
of
so
many
now
lies
,
the
very
man
whom
no
prayer
for
mercy
could
ever
have
influenced
,
himself
desires
to
make
a
request
of
you
.
Should
you
grant
that
request
,
all
will
be
forgotten
and
blotted
out
and
pardoned
,
for
I
myself
will
intercede
with
the
Throne
on
your
behalf
.
That
request
is
this
.
I
know
that
by
no
manner
of
means
,
by
no
preventive
measures
,
and
by
no
penalties
will
dishonesty
ever
be
completely
extirpated
from
our
midst
,
for
the
reason
that
its
roots
have
struck
too
deep
,
and
that
the
dishonourable
traffic
in
bribes
has
become
a
necessity
to
,
even
the
mainstay
of
,
some
whose
nature
is
not
innately
venal
.
Also
,
I
know
that
,
to
many
men
,
it
is
an
impossibility
to
swim
against
the
stream
.
Yet
now
,
at
this
solemn
and
critical
juncture
,
when
the
country
is
calling
aloud
for
saviours
,
and
it
is
the
duty
of
every
citizen
to
contribute
and
to
sacrifice
his
all
,
I
feel
that
I
can
not
but
issue
an
appeal
to
every
man
in
whom
a
Russian
heart
and
a
spark
of
what
we
understand
by
the
word
'
nobility
'
exist
.
For
,
after
all
,
which
of
us
is
more
guilty
than
his
fellow
?
It
may
be
to
ME
the
greatest
culpability
should
be
assigned
,
in
that
at
first
I
may
have
adopted
towards
you
too
reserved
an
attitude
,
that
I
may
have
been
over-hasty
in
repelling
those
who
desired
but
to
serve
me
,
even
though
of
their
services
I
did
not
actually
stand
in
need
.
Yet
,
had
they
really
loved
justice
and
the
good
of
their
country
,
I
think
that
they
would
have
been
less
prone
to
take
offence
at
the
coldness
of
my
attitude
,
but
would
have
sacrificed
their
feelings
and
their
personality
to
their
superior
convictions
.
For
hardly
can
it
be
that
I
failed
to
note
their
overtures
and
the
loftiness
of
their
motives
,
or
that
I
would
not
have
accepted
any
wise
and
useful
advice
proffered
.
At
the
same
time
,
it
is
for
a
subordinate
to
adapt
himself
to
the
tone
of
his
superior
,
rather
than
for
a
superior
to
adapt
himself
to
the
tone
of
his
subordinate
.
Such
a
course
is
at
once
more
regular
and
more
smooth
of
working
,
since
a
corps
of
subordinates
has
but
one
director
,
whereas
a
director
may
have
a
hundred
subordinates
.
But
let
us
put
aside
the
question
of
comparative
culpability
.
The
important
point
is
,
that
before
us
all
lies
the
duty
of
rescuing
our
fatherland
.
Our
fatherland
is
suffering
,
not
from
the
incursion
of
a
score
of
alien
tongues
,
but
from
our
own
acts
,
in
that
,
in
addition
to
the
lawful
administration
,
there
has
grown
up
a
second
administration
possessed
of
infinitely
greater
powers
than
the
system
established
by
law
.
And
that
second
administration
has
established
its
conditions
,
fixed
its
tariff
of
prices
,
and
published
that
tariff
abroad
;
nor
could
any
ruler
,
even
though
the
wisest
of
legislators
and
administrators
,
do
more
to
correct
the
evil
than
limit
it
in
the
conduct
of
his
more
venal
tchinovniks
by
setting
over
them
,
as
their
supervisors
,
men
of
superior
rectitude
.
No
,
until
each
of
us
shall
come
to
feel
that
,
just
as
arms
were
taken
up
during
the
period
of
the
upheaval
of
nations
,
so
now
each
of
us
must
make
a
stand
against
dishonesty
,
all
remedies
will
end
in
failure
.
As
a
Russian
,
therefore
--
as
one
bound
to
you
by
consanguinity
and
identity
of
blood
--
I
make
to
you
my
appeal
.
I
make
it
to
those
of
you
who
understand
wherein
lies
nobility
of
thought
I
invite
those
men
to
remember
the
duty
which
confronts
us
,
whatsoever
our
respective
stations
;
I
invite
them
to
observe
more
closely
their
duty
,
and
to
keep
more
constantly
in
mind
their
obligations
of
holding
true
to
their
country
,
in
that
before
us
the
future
looms
dark
,
and
that
we
can
scarcely
...
"