"Oh, yes, there's a very interesting article here," said Sviazhsky of the review Levin was holding in his hand.

" It appears," he went on, with eager interest, "that Friedrich was not, after all, the person chiefly responsible for the partition of Poland.

It is proved..." And with his characteristic clearness, he summed up those new, very important, and interesting revelations.

Although Levin was engrossed at the moment by his ideas about the problem of the land, he wondered, as he heard Sviazhsky: "What is there inside of him? And why, why is he interested in the partition of Poland?" When Sviazhsky had finished, Levin could not help asking: "Well, and what then?" But there was nothing to follow.