73/78 Come, as a favour to me, I beg you." "_Chere,_ enough. I shall speak of the Madonna, but I shall raise a storm that will either crush them all or shatter me alone." "It will certainly be you alone, Stepan Trofimovitch." "Such is my fate. I will speak of the contemptible slave, of the stinking, depraved flunkey who will first climb a ladder with scissors in his hands, and slash to pieces the divine image of the great ideal, in the name of equality, envy, and... |