“Write ‘Vive la république,’ and that will be enough.”

“Bravo!” Kirillov almost bellowed with delight. “ ‘Vive la république démocratique sociale et universelle ou la mort!’ No, no, that’s not it. ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort.’ There, that’s better, that’s better.” He wrote it gleefully under his signature.

“Enough, enough,” repeated Pyotr Stepanovitch.