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But they well knew that this man was unapproachable, that neither bribes nor threats would avail to win him over. Besides, Loris felt that by remaining the leader of the Nihilist Club he would come in conflict with his father.
Beyond the writing of my five-volume treatise on `Ancient Ophir: Its Geographical Situation, and Story, as revealed in the Light of certain Recent Discoveries'; undergoing eighteen months' imprisonment in the fortress of Peter and Paul, in Saint Petersburg, as a suspected Nihilist; and a two years' fruitless exploration of central Mexico, I have done absolutely nothing!"
"You will have Miss Skeat," suggested his Grace. "Oh, it's not that," said she. "I shall not be alone altogether, for there is poor Nicholas, you know. I must take care of him; and then I suppose some of these people will want to amuse me, or entertain me not that they are very entertaining; but they mean well. Besides, my being mixed up in a Nihilist persecution adds to my social value."
"Do you know him? Do you see him?" "Yes, frequently. He was here last night." "Will you tell me his name?" "No." "Shall I tell it to you?" "Shall you tell it to me! Do you mean to say that you know it?" "I can guess it." "Well?" "He is a nihilist. He has just returned to the city.
"The fact of her being found in the house of a betrayed Nihilist was taken as sufficient proof of sympathy or complicity, and she was arrested. Natasha, as Fedora Darrel, claimed to be a British subject, and, as such, to be allowed to go free in virtue of the Tsar's safe conduct, which she exhibited.
Nihilist papers and documents, printed both in the Russian and Polish languages, were scattered broadcast, and in such a secret manner that the police were wholly at fault, and the despots of Russia began to tremble as they had never done before. Money seemed to be plentiful, and a more perfect organization effected than were the Russian police.
None but a chosen few knew that this apparently peaceful dwelling, with its many stories and multitudinous inhabitants, was the meeting-place of a powerful band of would-be patriots, whose mission it was to inaugurate a constitutional government by the aid of dynamite. Here was the unsuspected centre from which thousands of Nihilist documents were scattered to the ends of Russia.
According to notions there, he is a Nihilist. Anyway, that's what he was called by a lady, the wife of an actual privy councillor, and I heartily congratulate him upon it.... YALTA, January 29, 1900. They have written to me that you have grown very fat and become dignified, and I did not expect that you would remember me and write to me.
Turgenieff's Fathers and Sons is recalled more than once, especially the character of Bazarov, the nihilist. Furthermore, when this student fails to reap the benefit of a good girl's love, Sanine steps in and ruins her. Even incest is hinted at.
"Do you mean to say," cried Mark, "that you think there are any of these Nihilist people lurking about? That letter which came for Uncle Douglas the letter from Paris I guessed it meant something of the sort." "There is a foreigner staying at Crianan," said Gimblet, "whom I have every reason to suspect.
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