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"But we do nothing to destroy the conditions in which people like

these are produced; on the contrary, we support the

establishments where they are formed These establishments are

well known: factories, in-shops, brothels And we do not destroy these places, but,

looking at theulate them We

educate in this way not one, but ine that we have done so, that

we have guarded ourselves, and nothing more can be expected of

us Have we not sent hiht Nekhludoff with unusual clearness and

vividness, sitting in his high-backed chair next to the colonel,

and listening to the different intonations of the advocates',

prosecutor's, and president's voices, and looking at their

self-confident gestures "And how much and what hard effort this

pretence requires," continued Nekhludoff in his

round the enormous room, the portraits, lae s; and picturing to

hi, and the still anisation, with its

arers, not only in

this place, but all over Russia, who receive wages for carrying

on this co we spent

one-hundredth of these efforts helping these castaways, e

now only regard as hands and bodies, required by us for our own