In one word, if the government dictates to me by telegram, _activite devorante_, I'll supply _activite devorante_.

I've told them here straight in their faces: 'Dear sirs, to maintain the equilibrium and to develop all the provincial institutions one thing is essential; the increase of the power of the governor.' You see it's necessary that all these institutions, the zemstvos, the law-courts, should have a two-fold existence, that is, on the one hand, it's necessary they should exist (I agree that it is necessary), on the other hand, it's necessary that they shouldn't.

It's all according to the views of the government.

If the mood takes them so that institutions seem suddenly necessary, I shall have them at once in readiness.

The necessity passes and no one will find them under my rule.