Цитаты из книги «Vera: or, The Nihilists»

There are none but Nihilists present.

I gave Dmitri half his mother's fortune to bring with him to pay the lawyer folk of Moscow.

no man could live if he took his neighbour's pack on his shoulders

And then the blight came, and the black plague with it, and the priests couldn't bury the people fast enough, and they lay dead on the roads – men and women both.

It is none of my work to mend my neighbour's thatch

have given them the tree of knowledge to eat of

Mich. Have you cured many patients lately, at your hospital, boy? Alex. There is one who lies sick to death I would fain cure, but cannot. Mich. Ay, and who is that? Alex. Russia, our mother.

The last right to which the people clung has been taken from them

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform

martial law is to be proclaimed