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blind can fail to see this gleam of light, only the maliciously dumb 

 refrain from speaking of it. In the prison at Tjumen we visited 

 the prison school, in which a young priest imparted instruction to 



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Christian, Jewish, and Tartar children alike, and it was a good face. 

 a veritable head of Christ, that this long-haired and bearded, though 

 still youthful ecclesiastic showed us. To be sure, the Jewish and 

 Tartar Ijoys had to read and repeat the catechism of the Orthodox 



