I cannot!" And she quickly walked into the kitchen followed by the words of Rybin: "There you have it, Pavel! It begins not in the head, but in the heart.

The heart is such a place that nothing else will grow in it." "Only reason," said Pavel firmly, "only reason will free mankind." "Reason does not give strength!" retorted Rybin emphatically.

"The heart gives strength, and not the head, I tell you." The mother undressed and lay down in bed without saying her prayer.

She felt cold and miserable.

And Rybin, who at first seemed such a staid, wise man, now aroused in her a blind hostility.
"Heretic! Sedition-maker!" she thought, listening to his even voice flowing resonantly from his deep chest.