But everything is
closed now, except these very same houses. ERGO! ..."
"Consequently, we will go merry-making to women who are for sale?
To prostitutes? Into a brothel?" Yarchenko interrupted him,
mockingly and inimically.
"And even so? A certain philosopher, whom it was desired to
humiliate, was given a seat at dinner near the musicians. But he,
sitting down, said: 'Here is a sure means of making the last place
the first.' And finally I repeat: If your conscience does not
allow you, as you express yourself, to buy a woman, then you can
go there and come away, preserving your innocence in all its
blossoming inviolability."
"You overdo it, Ramses," objected Yarchenko with displeasure. "You
remind me of those bourgeois, who, while it is still dark, have
gathered to gape at an execution and who say: we have nothing to
do with this, we are against capital punishment, this is all the
prosecuting attorney's and the executioner's doing."
"Superbly said and partly true, Gavrila Petrovich. But to us,
precisely, this comparison may not even apply. One cannot, you
see, treat some malignant disease while absent, without seeing the
sufferer in person.
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