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that he had been content to point at what he might have struck out and forbidden.
Now only the permission of the chief of police, Count Tolstoi, was wanting to the posting of the notices. They advertise lectures as they do the theatrical performances by posters, not by notices in the papers.
But it proved unnecessary to put up the posters. For with so much excitement and interest had the city followed my exertions to get permission to deliver lectures on Polish literature, that as soon as the report of Apuchtin's permission got abroad, all the tickets, 3600 in number (for the three lectures), were sold in a few hours, so that the permission to post notices, which came in the forenoon, was superfluous.
