Russia will find herself.

In twenty years' time her democracy will have solved the great problem, and Russia be the foremost republic of the world." "Meanwhile," he remarked, "she is letting us down pretty badly." "But you are selfish, you English!" she exclaimed.

"You see one of the greatest nations in the world going through its hour of agony, and you think nothing but how you yourselves will be affected! Every thinking person in Russia regrets that this thing should have come to pass at such a time.

Yet it is best for you English to look the truth in the face.

It wasn't the Russian people who were pledged to you, with whom you were bound in alliance.