UCH a characterization? Hey? Well, but after all
I'm going to continue. You are men who make no distinction between
your own and strangers. You are free people. Now, here two parties
stand before you; one complains, 'He robbed me and did me up
completely'; and the other answers, 'I have a right to rob and to do up
because I have arms'----"

"Please don't tell anecdotes."

"Why, I've heard that old people like anecdotes--naughty ones in
particular."

"I'll prohibit you from speaking. You may say something about what
directly pertains to the case. Speak, but without buffoonery, without
unbecoming sallies."

The Little Russian looked at the judges, silently rubbing his head.

"About what directly pertains to the case?" he asked seriously. "Yes;
but why should I speak to you about what directly pertains to the case?
What you need to know my comrade has told you. The rest will be told
you; the time will come, by others----"

The old judge rose and declared:

"I forbid you to speak. Vasily Samoylov!"

Pressing his lips together firmly the Little Russian dropped down
lazily on the bench, and Samoylov arose alongside of him, shaking his
curly hair.

"The prosecuting attorney called my comrades and me 'savages,' 'enemies
of civilization'----"

"You must speak only about that which pertains to your case."

"This pertains to the case. There's nothing which does not pertain to
honest men, and I ask you not to interrupt me. I ask you what sort of
a thing is your civilization?"

"We are not here for discussions with you. To the point!" said the old
judge, showing his teeth.

Andrey's demeanor had evidently changed the conduct of the judges; his
words seemed to have wiped something away from them. Stains appeared
on their gray faces. Cold, green sparks burned in their eyes. Pavel's
speech had excited but subdued them; it restrained their agitation by
its force, which involuntarily inspired respect. The Little Russian
broke away this restraint and easily bared what lay underneath. They
looked at Samoylov, and whispered to one another with strange, wry
faces. They also began to move extremely quickly for them. They gave
the impression of desiring to seize him and howl while torturing his
body with voluptuous ecstasy.

"You rear spies, you deprave women and girls, you put men in the
position which forces them to thievery and murder; you corrupt them
with whisky--international butchery, universal false