table, on which stood small dishes of lobster, caviare, cheese,

and salt herrings. Nekhludoff did not know how hungry he was

until he began to eat, and then, having taken some bread and

cheese, he went on eating eagerly.

"Well, have you succeeded in undermining the basis of society?"

asked Kolosoff, ironically quoting an expression used by a

retrograde newspaper in attacking trial by jury. "Acquitted the

culprits and condemned the innocent, have you?"