" 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.

" I can say it before my daughter: her hair is long, because her wit is..." "Just what they thought of the negroes before their emancipation!" said Pestsov angrily.

"What seems strange to me is that women should seek fresh duties," said Sergey Ivanovitch, "while we see, unhappily, that men usually try to avoid them.