And one can but sympathize with this desire to assist in the general labor of man.

" "Quite so," Alexey Alexandrovitch assented.

" The question, I imagine, is simply whether they are fitted for such duties.

" "They will most likely be perfectly fitted," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, "when education has become general among them.

We see this..." "How about the proverb?" said the prince, who had a long while been intent on the conversation, his little comical eyes twinkling.