Just put the thumb-screw on him! And do
it well!"
Smolin again cast at Lubov a smiling glance, and her heart
trembled with joy once more. With flushing face she said to her
father, inwardly addressing herself to the bridegroom:
"As far as I can understand, African Dmitreivich, he wishes to
buy the newspaper not at all for the sake of stopping its mouth
as you say."
"What then can be done with it?" asked the old man, shrugging his
shoulders. "There's nothing in it but empty talk and agitation.
Of course, if the practical people, the merchants themselves,
take to writing for it--"
"The publication of a newspaper," began Smolin, instructively,
interrupting the old man, "looked at merely from the commercial
point of view, may be a very profitable enterprise. But aside
from this, a newspaper has another more important aim--that is,
to protect the right of the individual and the interests of
industry and commerce."
"That's just what I say, if the merchant himself will manage the
newspaper, then it will be useful."
"Excuse me, papa," said Lubov.
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