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"
You
are
exaggerating
,
you
are
exaggerating
,
Lebedeff
!
"
cried
his
hearers
,
amid
laughter
.
"
I
admit
that
it
is
an
historic
thought
,
but
what
is
your
conclusion
?
"
asked
the
prince
.
He
spoke
so
seriously
in
addressing
Lebedeff
,
that
his
tone
contrasted
quite
comically
with
that
of
the
others
.
They
were
very
nearly
laughing
at
him
,
too
,
but
he
did
not
notice
it
.
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"
Do
n't
you
see
he
is
a
lunatic
,
prince
?
"
whispered
Evgenie
Pavlovitch
in
his
ear
.
"
Someone
told
me
just
now
that
he
is
a
bit
touched
on
the
subject
of
lawyers
,
that
he
has
a
mania
for
making
speeches
and
intends
to
pass
the
examinations
.
I
am
expecting
a
splendid
burlesque
now
.
"
"
My
conclusion
is
vast
,
"
replied
Lebedeff
,
in
a
voice
like
thunder
.
"
Let
us
examine
first
the
psychological
and
legal
position
of
the
criminal
.
We
see
that
in
spite
of
the
difficulty
of
finding
other
food
,
the
accused
,
or
,
as
we
may
say
,
my
client
,
has
often
during
his
peculiar
life
exhibited
signs
of
repentance
,
and
of
wishing
to
give
up
this
clerical
diet
.
Incontrovertible
facts
prove
this
assertion
.
He
has
eaten
five
or
six
children
,
a
relatively
insignificant
number
,
no
doubt
,
but
remarkable
enough
from
another
point
of
view
.
It
is
manifest
that
,
pricked
by
remorse
--
for
my
client
is
religious
,
in
his
way
,
and
has
a
conscience
,
as
I
shall
prove
later
--
and
desiring
to
extenuate
his
sin
as
far
as
possible
,
he
has
tried
six
times
at
least
to
substitute
lay
nourishment
for
clerical
.
That
this
was
merely
an
experiment
we
can
hardly
doubt
:
for
if
it
had
been
only
a
question
of
gastronomic
variety
,
six
would
have
been
too
few
;
why
only
six
?
Why
not
thirty
?
But
if
we
regard
it
as
an
experiment
,
inspired
by
the
fear
of
committing
new
sacrilege
,
then
this
number
six
becomes
intelligible
.
Six
attempts
to
calm
his
remorse
,
and
the
pricking
of
his
conscience
,
would
amply
suffice
,
for
these
attempts
could
scarcely
have
been
happy
ones
.
In
my
humble
opinion
,
a
child
is
too
small
;
I
should
say
,
not
sufficient
;
which
would
result
in
four
or
five
times
more
lay
children
than
monks
being
required
in
a
given
time
.
The
sin
,
lessened
on
the
one
hand
,
would
therefore
be
increased
on
the
other
,
in
quantity
,
not
in
quality
.
Please
understand
,
gentlemen
,
that
in
reasoning
thus
,
I
am
taking
the
point
of
view
which
might
have
been
taken
by
a
criminal
of
the
middle
ages
.
As
for
myself
,
a
man
of
the
late
nineteenth
century
,
I
,
of
course
,
should
reason
differently
;
I
say
so
plainly
,
and
therefore
you
need
not
jeer
at
me
nor
mock
me
,
gentlemen
.
As
for
you
,
general
,
it
is
still
more
unbecoming
on
your
part
.
In
the
second
place
,
and
giving
my
own
personal
opinion
,
a
child
's
flesh
is
not
a
satisfying
diet
;
it
is
too
insipid
,
too
sweet
;
and
the
criminal
,
in
making
these
experiments
,
could
have
satisfied
neither
his
conscience
nor
his
appetite
.
I
am
about
to
conclude
,
gentlemen
;
and
my
conclusion
contains
a
reply
to
one
of
the
most
important
questions
of
that
day
and
of
our
own
!
This
criminal
ended
at
last
by
denouncing
himself
to
the
clergy
,
and
giving
himself
up
to
justice
.
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We
can
not
but
ask
,
remembering
the
penal
system
of
that
day
,
and
the
tortures
that
awaited
him
--
the
wheel
,
the
stake
,
the
fire
!
--
we
can
not
but
ask
,
I
repeat
,
what
induced
him
to
accuse
himself
of
this
crime
?
Why
did
he
not
simply
stop
short
at
the
number
sixty
,
and
keep
his
secret
until
his
last
breath
?
Why
could
he
not
simply
leave
the
monks
alone
,
and
go
into
the
desert
to
repent
?
Or
why
not
become
a
monk
himself
?
That
is
where
the
puzzle
comes
in
!
There
must
have
been
something
stronger
than
the
stake
or
the
fire
,
or
even
than
the
habits
of
twenty
years
!
There
must
have
been
an
idea
more
powerful
than
all
the
calamities
and
sorrows
of
this
world
,
famine
or
torture
,
leprosy
or
plague
--
an
idea
which
entered
into
the
heart
,
directed
and
enlarged
the
springs
of
life
,
and
made
even
that
hell
supportable
to
humanity
!
Show
me
a
force
,
a
power
like
that
,
in
this
our
century
of
vices
and
railways
!
I
might
say
,
perhaps
,
in
our
century
of
steamboats
and
railways
,
but
I
repeat
in
our
century
of
vices
and
railways
,
because
I
am
drunk
but
truthful
!
Show
me
a
single
idea
which
unites
men
nowadays
with
half
the
strength
that
it
had
in
those
centuries
,
and
dare
to
maintain
that
the
'
springs
of
life
'
have
not
been
polluted
and
weakened
beneath
this
'
star
,
'
beneath
this
network
in
which
men
are
entangled
!
Do
n't
talk
to
me
about
your
prosperity
,
your
riches
,
the
rarity
of
famine
,
the
rapidity
of
the
means
of
transport
!
There
is
more
of
riches
,
but
less
of
force
.
The
idea
uniting
heart
and
soul
to
heart
and
soul
exists
no
more
.
All
is
loose
,
soft
,
limp
--
we
are
all
of
us
limp
...
Enough
,
gentlemen
!
I
have
done
.
That
is
not
the
question
.
No
,
the
question
is
now
,
excellency
,
I
believe
,
to
sit
down
to
the
banquet
you
are
about
to
provide
for
us
!
"
Lebedeff
had
roused
great
indignation
in
some
of
his
auditors
(
it
should
be
remarked
that
the
bottles
were
constantly
uncorked
during
his
speech
)
;
but
this
unexpected
conclusion
calmed
even
the
most
turbulent
spirits
.
"
That
's
how
a
clever
barrister
makes
a
good
point
!
"
said
he
,
when
speaking
of
his
peroration
later
on
.
The
visitors
began
to
laugh
and
chatter
once
again
;
the
committee
left
their
seats
,
and
stretched
their
legs
on
the
terrace
.
Keller
alone
was
still
disgusted
with
Lebedeff
and
his
speech
;
he
turned
from
one
to
another
,
saying
in
a
loud
voice
: