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Anna Karenina

‘Frogs or no frogs, I’m not the editor of a paper and I
don’t want to defend them; but I am speaking of the
unanimity in the intellectual world,’ said Sergey
Ivanovitch, addressing his brother. Levin would have

answered, but the old prince interrupted him.
‘Well, about that unanimity, that’s another thing, One
may say,’ said the prince. ‘There’s my son-in-law, Stepan
Arkadyevitch, you know him. He’s got a place now on
the committee of a commission and something or other, I
don’t remember. Only there’s nothing to do in it—why,
Dolly, it’s no secret!—and a salary of eight thousand. You
try asking him whether his post is of use, he’ll prove to
you that it’s most necessary. And he’s a truthful man too,
but there’s no refusing to believe in the utility of eight
thousand roubles.’
‘Yes, he asked me to give a message to Darya
Alexandrovna about the post,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch
reluctantly, feeling the prince’s remark to be ill-timed.
‘So it is with the unanimity of the press. That’s been
explained to me: as soon as there’s war their incomes are
doubled. How can they help believing in the destinies of
the people and the Slavonic races...and all that?’
‘I don’t care for many of the papers, but that’s unjust,’
said Sergey Ivanovitch.

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