“If you judge like that,” shouted Yourii, his eyes flashing, for he was anxious not to yield in the presence of Sina, though she could only hear his voice, “then we must go back to the origin of all ideas….”
“What ought we, then, in your opinion to read?” said the hostile Goschienko.
“What you ought to read? Why, Confucius, the Gospels, Ecclesiastes …”
“The Psalms and the Apocrypha,” was the Polytechnic student’s mocking interruption.
Goschienko laughed maliciously, oblivious of the fact himself had never read one of these works.
“Of what good would that be?” asked Schafroff in a tone of disappointment.
“It’s like they do in church!” tittered Pistzoff.
Yourii’s face flushed.
“I am not joking. If you wish to be logical, then …”
“Ah! but what did you say to me just now about Christ?” cried Von Deitz exultantly.