The army must be kept up and a huge Civil Service, and no one cares what happens to the peasants.

Some day the peasants _must_ turn, but not yet.

It is a question for all Russian land-owners to face, and nobody faces it.

If any one tries to improve the condition of his peasants--they were happier a thousand times as serfs--the bureaucrats of Petersburg mark him down and he is forced to leave the country.

The whole fabric of this Government is rotten, but every-one, except the peasants, would suffer by its fall, and therefore it stands." Etta was staring into the fire.