"It is a ground for appeal, though. To continue: ' Secondly,' hewent on reading, 'when Maslova's advocate, in his speech for thedefence, wishing to characterise Maslova's personality, referredto the causes of her fall, he was interrupted by the presidentcalling him to order for the alleged deviation from the directsubject. Yet, as has been repeatedly pointed out by the Senate,the elucidation of the criminal's characteristics and his or hermoral standpoint in general has a significance of the firstimportance in criminal cases, even if only as a guide in thesettling of the question of imputation.' That's point two," hesaid, with a look at Nekhludoff.
"But he spoke so badly that no one could make anything of it,"Nekhludoff said, still more astonished. wig units