" "You are for classics, Sergey Ivanovitch.

Will you take red wine?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

"I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture," Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of condescension, as to a child.

" I only say that both sides have strong arguments to support them," he went on, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch.

" My sympathies are classical from education, but in this discussion I am personally unable to arrive at a conclusion.