And if they set about confuting him in the name of truth, he has but to repeat the famous question, ‘What is truth?’ And so, let us drink and be merry, and say our prayers. _July 1881._ THE RUSSIAN TONGUE In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, thou alone art my stay and support, mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not fall into despair, seeing all that is done at home? But who can think that such a tongue is not the gift of a great people! _June 1882._ THE END End of Project Gutenberg’s Dream Tales and Prose Poems, by Ivan Turgenev