The Mission of Poubalov — page 184: what you’re looking at

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180 POUBALOVW’S REVOLUTION. ist save in the characters of simple-minded people whe it would be too harsh to call fools, and yet who a nothing short of fools when you look at them from 1 point of view of self-interest and material adyanceme What have I found to be the chief requisite of lee whether in guiding the state, or seeking to wreck it, or i commerce? Craft, Miss Hilman, craft that suggests ane includes indirect methods to attain ends, the holding a of false hopes, the display of the gilded side of things, th concealment of the base material—in short, trickery which is but another name for treachery. I have belie that keen minds saw the folly of what we call honest and to find candor in a person of intelligence would t seemed to me an anomaly. I have discovered that e3 ordinary combination, Miss Hilman, and have been stup fied to find that my methods, however subtle, have a - nothing in opposition to this unaffected, unconscious ho esty. It is a revelation to my ae that threatens to effec a revolution in my convictions.’ ‘One moment, Mr. Poubalov,’’ interrupted Clara; ‘you habit of circuitous approach to a point is still strong u ) you, and according to your own admissions, it is on re place in conversation with me. Permit me, then, to he you adjust yourself to your incomplete revolution, an will do so without any clever turns of phraseology. Ia then, the embodiment of this wonderful candor that yo have discovered. It would have taken you a long time say if. LI appreciate the compliment. Go on, please.” There was a suspicion of a tremor in Poubaloy’s as he continued: ‘As ‘Yes, you have said it, beating me, as usual, in the a part wherein I thought I was skilled. But I have to adi Miss Hilman, that having discovered the existence of I esty associated with the highest order of intelliger am astounded to find that I not only do not scorn and spise it, I admire it—more than that, I am consul it; [ yield to it as a serf to the will of hic wuss book iy > :