This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...his place," one voice said. Andrey felt very unhappy. It seemed to him that his chance was gone. Shepelev was one of the best and most experienced of the propagandists. "Yes, let Shepelev go to the Narva district," several voices repeated. The question seemed settled, but Lena interposed. "I think," ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...his place," one voice said. Andrey felt very unhappy. It seemed to him that his chance was gone. Shepelev was one of the best and most experienced of the propagandists. "Yes, let Shepelev go to the Narva district," several voices repeated. The question seemed settled, but Lena interposed. "I think," she said, "Andrey will do much better than Shepelev." She proceeded to give her reasons, reviewing with perfect frankness and equanimity the respective qualifications of the two men. Shepelev, she admitted, was very good as lecturer and debater. The workmen understood him well, and were easily converted by him. But he was not the fittest person to work up a new field and pick out new men; he was neither active nor enterprising enough for that. Besides, he was slow in making acquaintance with the people. Andrey in both respects was the better man of the two. Lena made her speech in a uniform business-like tone, without raising her voice a single note. Her blue eyes, which she moved as she spoke from one candidate to the other, rested upon them with the same placid calmness when she made a compliment as when she put forward a cutting criticism. Shepelev listened to the discursive examination of himself very attentively, his elbow on the arm of his chair, twisting his yellow beard between his fingers. He smiled now and then at Lena's sharpest remarks, enjoying quietly the girl's straightforwardness. "Yes, I think you will do better here than I," he said to Andrey, when Lena had finished. "Can you leave your district without inconvenience?" Now that the thing which he so ardently wished a minute before depended upon one word of his, he was taken with a sudden fear, as if an abyss had opened...
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