"Do let us make a start."
"Then you have not begun yet?" said Novikoff, evidently pleased. He
shook hands with the two workmen, who hastily rose from their seats. It
was embarrassing to meet the doctor as a fellow-comrade, when at the
hospital he was wont to treat them as his inferiors.
Goschienko, looking rather annoyed, then began.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are naturally all desirous to widen our
outlook, and to broaden our views of life; and, believing that the best
method of self-culture and of self-development lies in a systematic
course of reading and an interchange of opinions regarding the books
read, we have decided to start this little club...."
"That's right," sighed Pistzoff approvingly, as he looked round at the
company with his bright, dark eyes.
"The question now arises: What books ought we to read? Possibly some
one here present could make a suggestion regarding the programme that
should be adopted?"
Schafroff put on his glasses and slowly stood up. In his hand he held a
small note-book.
"I think," he began in his dry, uninteresting voice, "I think that our
programme should be divided into two parts.
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