And yet all of us, who are now standing here
in the street and interfering with the passers-by, will be obliged
at some time in our work to run up against the terrible problem of
prostitution, and what a prostitution at that--the Russian!
Lichonin, I, Borya Sobashnikov and Pavlov as jurists, Petrovsky
and Tolpygin as medicos. True, Veltman has a distinct specialty--
mathematics. But then, he will be a pedagogue, a guide of youth,
and, deuce take it, even a father! And if you are going to scare
with a bugaboo, it is best to look upon it one's self first. And
finally, you yourself, Gavrila Petrovich--expert of dead languages
and future luminary of grave digging--is the comparison, then, of
the contemporary brothels, say, with some Pompeian lupanaria, or
the institution of sacred prostitution in Thebes and Nineveh, not
important and instructive to you? ..."
"Bravo, Ramses, magnificent!" roared Lichonin. "And what's there
to talk so much about, fellows? Take the professor under the gills
and put him in a cab!"
The students, laughing and jostling, surrounded Yarchenko, seized
him under the arms, caught him around the waist.
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