Who is Vera? : a novel ; wherein English and Russian lives are interwoven . guided youth 1Perhaps imprisoned, exiled, or roaming theworld in poverty he knew not, and the million-aire had thus his grievance. The other, a manenriched by stolen wealth, fevered with a mania An Evening on the Neva. 215 that allured him to test his powers to regeneratean empire,—to work the work of a century in hisown brief lifetime,—to labour to awake theignorant to see their wrongs, that they in theirignorance knew not to be wrongs, and to pressthem on to claim redress for grievances thatthey, being born to the ma
Who is Vera? : a novel ; wherein English and Russian lives are interwoven . guided youth 1Perhaps imprisoned, exiled, or roaming theworld in poverty he knew not, and the million-aire had thus his grievance. The other, a manenriched by stolen wealth, fevered with a mania An Evening on the Neva. 215 that allured him to test his powers to regeneratean empire,—to work the work of a century in hisown brief lifetime,—to labour to awake theignorant to see their wrongs, that they in theirignorance knew not to be wrongs, and to pressthem on to claim redress for grievances thatthey, being born to the manner, had bornewithout irritation ; and tempted to feel it werepossible to hold the balance of power and jus-tice, even in a land where peculation and briberywere rampant, and but faintly disguised. Bold is the task, when subjects, grown too a monarch where his error Hes;For though we deem the short-hved fury past,Tis sure, the mighty will revenge at last. This task Rimboff did not flinch from under-taking, and to work out by subtle means andbold CHAPTER XIX.
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