And after five years we will be saying:
Undoubtedly a bribe is a horribly nasty bit of business, but you
know--children ... the family ... And just the same way after ten
years we, having remained fortuitous Russian liberals, will be
sighing about personal freedom and bowing low before worthless
scoundrels, whom we despise, and will be cooling our heels in
their ante-rooms. 'Because, don't you know,' we will say,
tittering, 'when you live with wolves, you must howl like a wolf.'
By God, it wasn't in vain that some minister called the Russian
students future head-clerks!"
"Or professors," Lichonin put in.
"But most important of all," continued Yarchenko, letting this
pointed remark pass by, "most important of all is this, that I
have seen all of you to-day on the river and afterwards there ...
on the other shore ... with these charming, fine girls. How
attentive, well-bred, obliging you all were--but scarcely have you
taken leave of them, when you are drawn to public women. Let each
one of you imagine for a moment, that we all had been visiting his
sisters and straight from them had driven to Yama .
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