“Gott sei Dank!” added the mother.
“They are right,” calmly remarked Ivan Matvyeich; “the economic principle before everything.”
Nikolai Nekrasov wrote light verse of a whimsical trend.
A MORAL MAN
A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody—never.
I lent my friend a sum he could not pay;
I jogged his memory in a friendly way,
Then took the law of him th’ affair to end;