Yes, you think you're watching all of us and studying all our characters.

And I suppose there'll be a book one day, another of those books by Englishmen about poor Russians--and you'll flatter yourself that now at last one true picture has been given ...

but let me tell you that you'll never know anything really about us so long as you're a sentimentalist!" Yes, there were moments when I hated him, but those moments never continued for long.

For one thing one could not hate so magnificent, so honest, so uncompromising, so efficient a worker! He was worthy of some very high position in the army, and he could certainly have attained any height had he chosen.

He had a genius for compelling other men to obey him, he was never perturbed by unexpected mischance, he paid no attention at all to what other people thought of him, and he seemed incapable of fatigue.