It is not our fault that a most terrific winter annually renders the land unproductive for four months.

It is not our fault that the government to which we are forced to bow--the Czar whose name lifts our hats from our heads--it is not our fault that progress and education are taboo, and that all who endeavor to forward the cause of humanity are promptly put away in a safe place where they are at liberty to forward their own salvation and nothing else.

Nothing is our fault, mein lieber, in this country.

We have to make the best of adverse circumstances.

We are not breaking any human law, and in doing nothing we should be breaking a divine command." Paul flicked the ash off his cigar.