"That's very practical! It is time to stop their mouths, it was high time long ago! Particularly that Yozhov; he's like a sharp-toothed saw.

Just put the thumb-screw on him! And do it well!" Smolin again cast at Lubov a smiling glance, and her heart trembled with joy once more.

With flushing face she said to her father, inwardly addressing herself to the bridegroom: "As far as I can understand, African Dmitreivich, he wishes to buy the newspaper not at all for the sake of stopping its mouth as you say." "What then can be done with it ?" asked the old man, shrugging his shoulders.

"There's nothing in it but empty talk and agitation.

Of course, if the practical people, the merchants themselves, take to writing for it--" "The publication of a newspaper," began Smolin, instructively, interrupting the old man, "looked at merely from the commercial point of view, may be a very profitable enterprise.