text:  Evstafii Ivanovitch many will not believe my words because each conceals the cruelty of his nature and his secret revengefulness under excuses of necessity--each says with a pretence of feeling 'Really I wish from my heart to pardon but be judges yourselves--can I? What after this are laws--what is the general welfare?' All this I never say; in my eyes no tear is seen when I sign a sentence of death: but my heart bleeds