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Resurrection
A NOVEL
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"RESURRECTION"
Tolstoy's Great Novel
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Resurrection
A NOVEL
By
Leo Tolstoy
Author of
"Anna Karenina," "War and Peace," etc.
Translated by
Mrs. Louise Maude
fFith Illustrations by Pasternak
Toronto
GEORGE N. MORANG & COMPANY,
LIMITED
1900
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Copyright, 1899, by
DoDD, Mead & Company,
and 1899, (as the"Awakening,">
By John Brisben Walker.
THC BURR PRINTING HOUSE, NEW YORK.
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CONTENTS
BOOK I
ICHAPTER
I. Maslova in Prison ^^^^
Iu't ^^m'!"?":^'^ ^^'"'>' Life! : ; : : ^
HI. Nekhludoff . . 5
IV^. Missy lo
V. The Jurymen 15
\\L The Judges.. - 18
vm '^'^^ Officials of the Court. '. ^'
rv T, "^^^""S^ in the Jury. . . 25
VT Ti I.'^'.^ —T^^e Indictment . . 3 1
^TT t' Tnal-Maslova Cross-examined ^
TTT ^r'V^'''^ ^e^J's Before. 3^
'TV ^/^^ "1 tlie Armv.. 44
-vtv '^.^^ ^^'■st Step...;;; 57
i^- T^Ih^Tnal-ResumpiionV.'. ^^
' YT V?,^ Tnal-The Medical Report ^'
'yvtV t- , "^^ "* Korchagin ^7
-Win. The Awakening i04
^ 109
vi Contents
CHAPTER p^Cj.
XXIX. Maslova in Prison lie
XXX. The Cell 1 19
XXXI. The Prisoners 122
XXXII. A Prison Quarrel 125
XXXIII. The Leaven at Work— Nekhludoff's Do-
mestic Changes 129
XXXIV. ,The Absurdity of Law — Reflections of a
Juryman 1^3
XXXV. The Procureur — Xekhliidofif Refuses to
Serve 138
XXXVI. Nekhludoff Endeavours to Visit Maslova. . 141
XXXVII. Maslova Recalls the Past 144
XXXVIII. Sunday in Prison — Preparing for Mass. . 148
XXXIX. The Prison Church — Blind Leaders of the
Blind 151
XL. The Husks of Religion 155
XLI. Visiting Day— The Men's Ward 158
XLII. Visiting Day — The Women's Ward 163
XLIII. Nekhludofif Visits Maslova 166
XLIV. Maslova's View of Life 172
XLV. Fanarin, the Advocate — The Petition 175
XLVI. A Prison Flogging 181
XLVII. Nekhludoflf Again Visits Maslova 184
XLVIII. Maslova Refuses to Marry 187
XLIX. Vera Doiikhova 191
L. The Vice-Governor of the Prison 194
LI. The Cells 198
LII. No. 21 201
LIII. Victims of Government 204
LIV. Prisoners and Friends 207
LV. Vera Doukhova Explains 210
LVI. Nekhludoflf and the Prisoners 213
LVII. The Vice-Governor's " At-Home " 216
LVIII. The Vice-Governor Suspicious 220
LIX. NekhludoflF's Third Interview with Maslova in
Prison 223
BOOK II
I. Property in Land 220 1
II. Eflforts at Land Restoration 235
I'AGE
115
119
122
125
loff's Do-
129
ions of a
133
'fuses to
••, 138
Vlaslova. . 141
144
)r ^lass. . 148
;rs of the
151
155
158
16^
166
172
' 175
181
184
187
191
194
198
201
204
207
210
213
216
220
[aslova in
223
Contents •?
CHAf'TEK
ni. Old Associations. ^'"^^
ly . The Peasants' Lot. ..'.".' 239
y . Alaslova's Aunt ... 242
y I. Reflections of a" Laiullor J .' ^46
y J I. 1 he Disinherited. 250
TY T.^°r'' ^^^"^ "^ the Heart".'. ^|^
V X. "^ Land Settlement ^^^
A. iVkhludoff Returns to Tnu/.. 263
XI.
XII
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
X\7.
XVII.
XVIII
XIX.
wi^'S?i;:i^;r^s;j^i:::^'''— -- ^^
Town • • • • .
on Judges and Prosecutors
XT - ,,,7 ^ '■ 'ock to Town ■ ■
Aurse .Alaslova. . . ^77
An Aristocratic Circle ^^°
An Average Statesman. ^86
An L p-to-date Senator ^92
. OffidaKlom'"™ '-'"ovnaV -Dinner rvi,:: jif
The Appeal Dismissed.." 3 14
and
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
XXvVu ^i^ ^'^'' Church"
XXLX.""- S'^'eS °^ Vr^!^'' ^"-^tion. . . . ,,5
XXX. The ' tH'J,^}"^ ^D^l for God's " ' ' " ^^9
Law. .
XXXI. X,
Xekhludoff'sTna;ehi*sm:""'' ""'''"^' 364
The Aim of the Law. . ." ^6/
1 he Prisoners Start for SiherlL ^^^
^:?t Men but StrangT a'ncrTerribl" ' ^" " " " ^^'
XXXII.
XXXIII
XXXIV.
An Old Friend. 3i8
The Public Prosecutor ^^^
Mariette Tempts Xekhhidoff ^^5
Lvdia Shoustova's Home ^^'>
Lydia s Aunt " 33^
tlie People".".".". ^V^
ette's Attrar--- '^^"^
A , . , . - - ' God's"..
Astonishing Institution Called Criminal
XXXV.
tures.?".. ""' oiiange and Terrible
Crea-
The Tendt
381
XXX va • "pS7/^- °^ the "Loni ! ! ! ! ! ! ! " " Sj
XT ^: ^J-other and Sister 395
^Li. ^S^f;^^^' Law of Human Lif;: :;:;;::: l^.
XLIL Le
Vrai Grand Moiid- 4o8
414
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Contents
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BOOK III
CHAI'TKR I'AGE
I. Maslova Makes New Friends 421
II. An Incident of tlie March 424
III. Mar'' Pavlovna 4^7
IV. Simdnson 43°
V. The PoHtical Prisoners 433
VI. Kryltzoff's Story 437
VII. Nekhludoff Seeks an Interview with Maslova. . . 441
VIII. Nekhludofif and the Officer 444
IX. The PoHtical Prisoners 44^
X. Makar Devkin 45^
XI. Maslova and Her Companions 453
XII. Xabatoff and Markel 457
XIII. Love Affairs of the Exiles 462
XIV. Conversations in Prison 4^5
XV. Xovodvorofif 4^8
XVI. Simonson Speaks to Nekhludofif 47°
XVII. " I Have Nothing More to Say " 474
XVIII. Neveroff's Fate 477
XIX. " Why Is It Done? " 480
XX. The Journey Resumed 485
XXI. " Just a Worthless Tramp " 489
XXII. Nekhludoff Sees the General 492
XXIII. The Sentence Commuted 495
XXIV. The General's Household 500
XXV. Mdslova's Decision 505
XXVT. The English Visitor 5^9
XXVII. Kryltzoff at Rest 5i i
XXVIII. A New Life Dawns for Nekhludofif 514
CHARACTKRS JN THK NOVKL.
CAKO^f«A AlbeBTOVNA K,T EVA BrnH 'l ""•
M-cHA.. T„E„o,.6„ E;.uiVov™;r'-^r )-^,..
Sophia IvAnovna, ) (deceased).
Mary IvAnovna, ' f ^"^'^l^Jiludoff's Aunts.
Matrona PAvlovna, /
TiKiiON, ' [ tlieir Servants.
Agrapiiena Petrovna I
I <^-OKNEY, ' j- Nekhludoff's Servants.
I |;eter GerAsimovitch (one of the [urv^
K0RABLEV\ (M-IQlmra'c TT 11 '"^J"ryj.
i.^A ^Aiaslovas Fellow-prsoner)
pKINCE KoRCHAgin ^'
J;kincess Sophia \ asilievna KorchAgin
h<^-CEss Marv KorchAgin (Missy) •
" Then came Peter and said to Him, Lord, how oft shall my
brother ; in against me and I forgive him? Until seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, jJntil seven times; but
Until seventy times seven." — Matt, xziii.. 21-22.
■■ And why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye, but con-
siderest not the beam that is in thine own eye? " — Matt, vii., 3.
" He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her."— John viii., 7.
'■ The disciple is not above his master, but every one when he is
perfected shall be as his master." — Luke vi., 40.
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RESURRECTION
CHAPTER I.
MASLOVA IN PRISON.
Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best
to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were
crowded together, by paving the ground with stones,
scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down
the trees, turning away birds and beasts, and filling the air
with the smoke of naphtha and coal, still spring was spring
even in the town, f & i^ &y
The sun shone warm, the air was balmy ; everywhere
Where it did not get scraped away, the grass revived and
sprang up between the paving-stones as well as on the
narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards. The birches the
poplars, and the wild cherry unfolded their gummy 'and
fragrant leaves, the limes were expanding their opening
buds; crows, sparrows, and pigeons, filled with the iov of
spring were getting their nests ready; the flies were buz-
Izing along the walls, warmed by the sunshine. All were
Iglad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the children
imit men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off
■cheating and tormenting themselves and each other. It was
inot this spring morning men thought sacred and worthy of
Iconsideration, not the beauty of God's world, given for a
Boy to all creatures, this beauty which inclines the heart to
peace, to harmony, and to love, but only their own devices
lor enslaving one another. »
Thus, in the prison office of the Government town, it was
not the fact that men and animals had received the grace
^nd gladness of spring that was considered sacred and
important, but that a notice, numbered and with a super-
icnption, had come the day before, ordering that on this
ph day of April, at 9 a.m., three prisoners at present
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detained in the prison, a man and two women fone of th«,
women, as the chief criminal, to be conducted "enaratelv?
had to appear at Court. So now, on the 28th of Aori '
wit! "cSf WV;''h"iri^°°"/!'" ""!- a woman wafd"
trimmStMdl'^IklT,'^^^^^^^^^^^^
a^d havmg a look of suffering on he% face, caTh.to ,h™ r-
the^ce„!toi"wS ttirj:T^^um':r^ f^''°" °'
Srt'ni-d *f t;^ v""""'" -" ° M^si ™ r toT
t^ourt, and closed the door again
WjT^" -^^^ *^^- P,"'°" y^''^ the breeze had brought the
fresh vivi ying air from the fields. But in the corridor Ihl
air was laden with the germs of typhoid the smell of
ddeS^n h'^Tr'""' ^^^= T'y. -Lorir'feltTad'ani
usTd to bad air sJlT^? ^^l"^^' ^'^'•'^''' ^^^"gh «he was
ubea to Dad air. She had just come n from outsiHp :*r,r^
entering the corridor, she at once became sTeepy' ^
Fron, mside the cell came the sound of bustle and
women's voices and the patter of bare feet on the floor
iaile^a^H I'n"' ^"^''l "P' ^^^^°^^' ^ ^^^5" called omthe
jailer, and m a minute or two a small young woman with
toTh?/ai r'"sh?^a?"^'^^ ""^ 1 the'doof aTd""
and pet? coat On h ? ^ ^u^ "'^^'^ °^"'" ^ ^^^t^ Jacket
ana petticoat. On her feet she wore inen stockinp-Q anri
prison shoes, and round her head was tieS a wW?e kerchief
from under which a few locks of black hair were brushed
over the forehead with evident intent. The flee o the
vvoman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have
1 ved long in confinement, and which puts one in m^nd of
shoots of potatoes that spring up in a cellar T^^ u
S c^u'' r.' ^" T^' ^'^"^ showe^'l^om unLrth
broad collar of her cloak, were of the same hue. Her black
bofon/"'"''^ ^"''"'^ ""''^ '''^^^^'' expanding her full
With her head slightly thrown back, she stood in the
corridor looking straight into the eves of the jailer Ldv
to comply with any order. ' ■' ' ^
3ne of these
separately),
h of April,
nan warder
'ith sleeves
1 her waist,
nto the cor-
to the cell
he door of
buler even
)va! to the
•ought the
)rridor the
; smell of
It sad and
fh she was
itside, and
ustle and
le floor,
d out the
man with
I went up
ite jacket
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nder the
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The jailer was about to lock the door when a wrinkled
and severe-looking old woman put out her grey hea J and
began speaking to Maslova. But the jailer closed the door,
pushing the old woman's head with it. A woman's laughter
was heard from the cell, and Maslova smiled, turning to the
little grated opening in the cell door. The old woman
pressed her face to the grating from the other side, and said
m a hoarse voice: '
" Now mind, and when they begin questioning you
just repeat over the same thing, and stick to it ; tell nothing
that IS not wanted." * ' ^
" Well, it could not be worse than it is now, anyhow I
only wish it was settled one way or another."
" pi course, it will be settled one way or another," said
the jailer, with a superior's self-assured witticism. " Now
then, get along ! Take your places ! "
The old woman's eyes vanished from the grating, and
Maslova stepped out into the middle of the corridor The
warder in front, they descended the stone stairs, past the
sthi fouler, noisy cells of the men's ward, where they were
followed by eyes looking out of every one of the gratings
m the doors, and entered the office, where two soldiers
were waiting to escort her. A clerk who was sitting there
gave one of the soldiers a paper reeking of tobacco and
pomting to the prisoner, remarked, " Take her."
The soldier, a peasant from Nijni Novgorod, with a red
pock-rnarked face, put the paper into the sleeve of his coat'
winked to his companion, a broad-shouldered Tchouvash'
and then the prisoner and the soldiers went to the front
entrance out of the prison yard, and through the town up
the middle of the roughly-paved street.
Ist'ostchiks* tradespeople, cooks, workmen, and gov-
ernment clerks, stopped and looked curiously at the pris-
oner; some shook their heads and thought, " This is what
evil conduct, conduct unlike ours, leads to." The children
stopped and gazed at the robber with frightened looks; but
the thought that, the soldiers were preventing her from
doing more harm quieted their fears. A peasant, who had
sold his charcoal, and had had some tea in the town, came
up, and, after crossing himself, gave her a copeck. The
prisoner b ushed and muttered something; she noticed that
she was attracting everybody's attention, and that pleased
*Isvostchik — cabman.
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her. The comparatively fresh air also gladdened her, but
It was painful to step on the rough stones with the ill-made
prison shoes on her feet, which had become unused to
walking. Passing by a corn-dealer's shop, in front of which
a few pigeons were strutting about, unmolested by any one
the prisoner almost touched a grey-blue bird with her foot'
It fluttered up and flew close to her ear, fanning her with
Its wings. She smiled, then sighed deeply as she remem-
bered her present position.
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d her, but
le ill-made
unused to
t of which
y any one,
I her foot ;
', her with
le remem-
CHAPTER II.
maslova's early life.
The story of the prisoner Maslova's life was a very com-
mon one. ^
Maslova's mother was the unmarried daughter of a vil-
lage woman employed on a dairy farm, which belonged to
two maiden ladies who were landowners. This unmarried
woman had a baby every year, and, as often happens
among the village people, each one of these undesired
babies, after it had been carefully baptised, was neglected
by Its mother, whom it hindered at her work, and left to
starve Five children had died in this way. Thev had all
been baptised and then not sufficiently fed, and just left to
die. The sixth baby, whose father was a gipsy tramp,
would have shared the same fate, had it not so happened
that one of tne maiden ladies came into the farmyard to
scold the dairymaids for sending up cream that smelt of
the cow. The young woman was lying in the cowshed,
with a fine, healthy, new-born baby. The old maiden lady
scolded the maids again for allowing the woman (who had
just been confined) to lie in the cowshed, and was about to
go away, but seeing the baby her heart was touched, and
she offered to stand godmother to the little girl, and pitv for
her little god-daughter induced her to give milk and a "little
money to the mother, so that she should feed the baby ; and
the httle r^Hived. The old ladies spoke of her as "the
saved one When the child was three years old, her mother
tell HI and died, and the maiden ladies took the child from
burd° Srrandmother, to whom she was nothing but a
The little black-eyed maiden grew to be extremely
pretty, and so full of spirits that the ladies found her very
entertaining. ^
The younger of the ladies, Sophia Ivanovna, who had
stood godmother to the girl, had the kinder heart of the
two sisters; Maria Ivanovna, the elder, was rather hard
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Sophia Ivanovna drrssed the little girl in nice clothes, and
I Su M ■ '^^"^ '^""^ "^"^^^ "leaning to educate her like
a Jad} Maria Ivanovna thought the child should be
brought up to work, and trained her to be a good servant
She was exacting; she punished, and, when in a bad tem-
dfff^r? 'V""^ *''" ^^t*'" ^''^- ^'°^^'"^& "P ""^ler these two
different influeiices, the girl turned out half servant, half
S"5l h"^^- T'^ -'T 'f ^^- ^'' ^^'^'^^' ^^"^li «0"nd; less
refined than Katinka, but is not quite so common as Katka
She used to sew tidy up the rooms, polish the metal cases
saVa^d^r^ci to'thl^die" '''' ^^°'"'' ^"' ^^^^^^^^^^ '^^
Though she had more than one offer, she would not
marry She felt that life as the wife of any of the workW
men who were courting her would be too hard ; spoilt as she
was by a life of ease.
She lived in this manner till she was sixteen, when the
nephew of the old ladies, a rich young prince, and a univer-
sity student, came to stay with his aunts, and Katusha. not
hfm acknowledge it even to herself, fell in love with
Then two years later this same nephew stayed four days
with his aunts before proceeding to join his regiment, and
the night before he left he betrayed Katusha and, after
giving her a loo-rouble note, went away. Five months
A f '.r . ^^"^ ^?' "'^^^" *^^t ^he ^as to be a mother.
After that everythmg seemed repugnant to her, her only
thought being how to escape from the shame that awaited
her. She began not only to serve the ladies in a half-
hearted and negligent way, but once, without knowing how
It happened, was very rude to them, and gave them
notice, a thing she repented of later, and the ladies let her
go, noticing something wrong and very dissatisfied with
her. Then she got a housemaid's place in a police-officer's
house, but stayed there only three months, for the police-
officer, a man of fifty, began to torment her, and oncef when
he M-as in a specially enterprising mood, she fired up, called
tir.l ^ ^?u f ? ° ^n'^^'^c/ ^"^ §^^^e him such a knock in
the chest that he fell. She was turned out for her rude-
ness. It was useless to look for another situation, for the
time of her confinement was drawing near, so she went to
the house of a village midwife, who also sold wine The
confinement was easy; but the midwife, who had a case of
othes, and
te her like
should be
•d servant,
bad tem-
these two
vant, half
)unds less
as Katka.
letal cases
tirnes she
/ould not
! working
Dilt as she
when the
a univer-
usha, not
love with
"our days
lent, and
nd, after
; months
mother,
her only
: awaited
a half-
'ing how
VQ them
s let her
ied with
-officer's
i police-
re, when
p, called
:nock in
^r rude-
for the
went to
e. The
case of
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fever in the village, infected Katusha, and her baby bov
had to be sent to the foundlings' hospital, where, according
to the words of the old woman who took him there he at
once died. When Katusha went to the midw fe 'she had
127 roubles m all, 27 which she had earned and 100 given
^ Ki^ ^f ^,?Y^y^'- When she left she had buf six
roubles ; she did not know how to keep money but neit
It on hersel , and gave to all who asked.^ The Sidw e took
40 roubles for two months' board and attendance, 25 went
to get the baby mto the foundlings' hospital and 40 the
Tus 7or clT"'' ? !^"^ ' ''^J''^- Twenty Vo'ublefwnt
lust for clothes and damties. Having nothing left to live
on, Katusha had to look out for a place aga"n and found
maVVurhe^r °5 ^ '''''''''• The^fore!t:fras TmS
man, but he too, began to annoy her from the first dav
He disgusted her, and she tried'to avoid him B u he'
more experienced and cunning, besides being her master
who could send her wherever he liked, managed to Tccom-
Katushf and^T ,^'t -/-. ^--J it out, fnd. catching
Katusha and her husband in a room all by themselves
h^f.\^'^f/"^^/^r '?^*"^^^^ ^^^^"^'«1 herself a^d hey
had a fight, and Katusha got turned out of the 1 ouse J I
out being paid her wages.
Then Katusha went to live with her aunt in town The
off" K ^rl'^,","^' M^°?kbinder, had once been com?ortabiv
?5 «n f , °? ^" ^!', ?«tomers, and had taken to drink,
and spent all he could lay hands on at the public-house
The aunt kept a little laundry, and managed to support'
herself her children, and her wretched husband. S^ie
offered Katusha the place of an assistant laundress • but
seeing what a life of misery and hardship her aum's assis
ants led, Katiisha hesitated, and applied to a registry office
for a place One was found for^lier with a hdy who
hved with her two sons, pupils at a public day school A
week after Katusha had entered the house the^ der° a biV
fellow with moustaches, threw up his studies and mad?
laTd a^?th^hlr"''"""^ M^°^^'"^ ^'' ^b°"^- His mother
laid all the blame on Katusha, and gave her notice.
a litZtTKl ?^^' ^^•*'' ""^""y ^'"'^'^^^ attempts to find
a situation, Katusha again went to the registry office and
there met a woman with bracelets on her bare, plump arms
and rings on most of her fingers. Hearing h^at Katusha
was badly m want of a place, the woman gave her he?
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address, and invited her to come to her house. Katusha
went. The woman received her very kindly, set cake and
sweet wme before her, then wrote a note and gave it to a
servant to take to somebody. In the evening a tall man
with long, grey hair and a white beard, entered the room'
and sat down at once near Katusha, smiling and gazing at
her with glistening eyes. He began joking with her. The
hostess called him away into the next room, and Katusha
heard her say, " A fresh one from the country." Then the
hostess called Katusha aside and told her that the man was
an author, and that he had a great deal of money, and that
if he hked her he would not grudge her anything. He did
like her and gave her 25 roubles, promising to see her
often The 25 roubles soon went; some she paid to her
aunt for board and lodging; the rest was spent on a hat
ribbons, and such like. A few days later the author sent
for her, and she went. He gave her another 25 roubles,
and offered her a separate lodging.
Next door to the lodging rented for her by the author
there lived a jolly young shopman, with whom Katusha
soon fell in love. She told the author, and moved to a little
lodging of her own. The shopman, who proi.used to
marry her, went to Nijni on business without mentioning
It to her, having evidently thrown her up, and Katusha
remained alone. She meant to continue living in the lodg-
ing by herself, but was informed by the police that in this
case she would have to get a license. She returned to her
aunt. Seeing her fine dress, her hat, and mantle, her aunt
no longer oflfered her laundry work. As she understood
things, her niece had risen above that sort of thing. The
question as to whether she was to become a laundress or
not did not occur to Katusha, either. She looked with pity
at the thin, hard-worked laundresses, some already in con-
sumption, who stood washing or ironing with their thin
arms in the fearfully hot front room, which was always full
of soapy steam and draughts from the windows, and
thought with horror that she might have shared the same
fate.
Katusha had begun to smoke some time before, and
since the young shopman had thrown her up she was get-
ting more and more into the habit of drinking. It was not
so much the flavour of wine that tempted her as the fact
that It gave her a chance of forgetting the misery she
Kattisha
cake and
^e it to a
tall man,
he room,
gazing at
ler. The
Katusha
rhen the
man was
and that
He did
see her
d to her
»n a hat,
hor sent
roubles,
; author
Katusha
o a little
used to
ntioning
Katusha
be lodg-
t in this
i to her
ler aunt
lerstood
g. The
iress or
ith pity
in con-
eir thin
ays full
i^s, and
le same
re, and
^as get-
vas not
he fact
;ry she
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sufifered, making her feel more unrestrained and more
confident of her own worth, which she was not when quite
sober; without wine she felt sad and ashamed. Just at
this time a woman came along who offered to place her in
one of the largest establishments in the citv, explaining all
the advantages and benefits of the situation. Katusha had the
choice before her of either going into service or accepting this
offer— and she chose the latter. Besides, it seemed to her
as though, in this way, she could revenge herself on her
betrayer and the shopman and all those who had injured
her One of the things that tempted her, and was the cause
of her decision, was the woman telling her she might order
her own dresses— velvet, silk, satin, low-necked ball dresses,
anything she liked. A mental picture of herself in a bright
yellow silk trimmed with black velvet with low neck and
short sleeves conquered her, and she gave up her passport.
On the same evening the procuress took an isvostchik and
drove her to the notorious house kept by Carolina Alber-
tovna Kitaeva.
From that day a life of chronic sin against human and
divine laws commenced for Katusha Maslova, a life which
is led by hundreds of thousands of women, and which is
not merely tolerated but sanctioned by the Government
anxious for the welfare of its subjects ; a life which for nine
women out of ten ends in painful disease, premature de-
crepitude, and death.
Katusha Maslova lived this life for seven years. During
these years she twice changed houses, and had once been
to the hospital. In the seventh year of this life, when she
was twenty-six years old, happened that for which she was
put in prison and for which she was now being taken to be
tried, after more than three months of confinement with
thieves and murderers in the stifling air of a prison.
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CHAPTER III.
NEKHLUDOFF.
When Maslova, wearied out by the long walk rearh^H
had o'^r'n';. h'"''"^/ 1«"'"'- »" consTdering"w J "he
had to do to-day, and what had happened veste?dav
Recalhng the evening he had spent wUh t^e KorchWins
a wealthy and aristocratic family, whose daughter eforv
one expected he would marry, h^ siXd a^H fh '7- ^
ing-room walking heavily and quickly. There he carefullv
cleaned his teeth, many of which vv^re filled with f^^l?
pt:;^jjr^^drwitpt?t£iS>^^^^
musc'ulj1g^.rdrie? -r^^tir^^^lh tt^lS"{fe
put on h,s fine undergarments and his bolts, and sat down
fhirh '.''k ^'^'= '° ''™^'' ^'' black beard and Ws cur v hal
t„t^ ^'^"M°- ^V''" ^^"^"^ "« forehead Everyth,W
Tothe ■br7*Z-''''°"«^'"S to his toilet, his S hg
ciotnes, boots, necktie, pin, studs, was of the best nnalitv
very qu.et, simple, durable and cosllv. ^ ^•
Jvekhludolt dressed leisurely, and went into the dining-
, reached
e Dmitri
was still
1 the top
led linen
what he
ay.^
■chagins,
;r every
hrowing
another
le reso-
smooth,
dressing
s dress-
carefully
h tooth
After
med his
d to his
Dver his
of the
er bath
white,
leet, he
t down
ly hair,
rything
en, his
juality,
lining-
room. A
legs carve
board to
which had
the table,
stood a si
basin, a jt
fresh rolls,
last numbt
and several
Nekhlud
stout, midd
the wideni
This was
Nekhludofi
in this ver
housekeepe
years, at di
and had th
lived with 1
and had km
still little M
" Good-m
" Good-m
want ? " Ne
" A letter
the daughte
waiting in
handing hir
"All rigi
letter and i
smile.
That smil
Princess Kc
him to man
doflf.
" Then n
took a crum
and sailed o
Nekhludoi
ing it.
The note
with rough e
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room. A table which looked very imposing with its four
legs carved m the shape of lions' paws, and^ a huge s de-
V K t!°^T^^'^' '^°°^ ^" t^^e oblong room, the floor of
which had been polished by three men^the da; before On
the table, which was covered with a fine, starched doVh
stood a silver coffeepot full of aromatic coffee a sS
fr'esh 'rolirf,i'^L''"VK^''"^-' ^"^ ^ '^^-^ basket filled "^it,
tresh rolls, rusks and biscuits; and beside the plate lav the
ind seTral letters^ '''^''' ''' ^^"'^ ^^-^^-' a^ne^sp^r!
stout" middlf.rf ^'"'' ^•'•^"^ *° °P^" ^"^ Jitters, when a
stout, middle-aged woman in mourning, a lace cap covering
the widening parting of her hair, glided into the room
It ;', ,^f i^graphena Petrovna, formerly Iad?'s maid To
Nekhludoff-s mother. Her mistress had died quite reient?
nousekeeper. Agraphena Petrovna had spent nearlv ten
and'had the ^nn^ *'""' ^'^ ' "^^'^ Nekh^dof^s Zthe "
and had the appearance and manners of a ladv She had
ived with the Nekhliidoffs from the time she ^as a cWld
^till li^t?e Mrka"""^'^^^ '^'^^^^'-'^ ^^ ^'^ ^-e wh/n he ta's
]^ Good-morning, Dmitri Ivanovitch."
the d^au?hteVTh*^' princess; either from the mother or
tne daughter. The maid brought it some time ago and is
waiting in my room," answered Agraphena Petr6vnl
handing him the letter with a significant smile. '
\.H.t ?^^- Directly!" said Nekhludoff, taking the
letter and frowning as he noticed Agraphena Petrfvna's
PrlnrlL'"^^^ u'^^^^ ^^t^ ^^^ ^^"er was from the younger
Sm to mfrrv Tl"' ^^^"^ .Agraphena Petrovna Jxpecfed
mm to marry. This supposition of hers annoyed Nekhlu-
took'?crumhhrih''i- r''- '' ""^^ Agraphena Petrovna
^n^s^il^d ou^'o7?Setom"" "°^ " ''' '''''' ^^^ '' -^^'
.^Nekhludoff opened the perfumed note, and began read-
The note was written on a sheet of thick grey oaoer
with rough edges; the writing looked English, ft said f^'
wanti
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Having assumed the task of acting as your memory, I take the
liberty of reminding you that on this the 28th day of April you have
to appear at the Law Courts, as juryman, and, in consequence, can
on no account accompany us and Kolosoff to the picture gallery, as,
with your habitual flightiness, you promised yesterday ; d moins que
vous ne soyes dispose a payer la cour d'assise les 300 roubles
d'amende que vous vous refuses pour voire cheval, for not appear-
ing in time. I remembered it last night after you were gone, so do
not forget.
Princess M. Korchagin.
On the other side was a postscript.
Maman vous fait dire que voire couvert vous altendra jusqu'a la
nuit. Venez absolument a quelle heure que cela soil.
M. K.
Nekhludoff made a grimace. This note was a continua-
tion of that skilful manoeuvring which the Princess Kor-
chagin had already, practised for two months in order to
bind him closer and closer with invisible threads. And
yet, beside the usual hesitation of men past their youth
to marry unless they are very much in love, Nekhliidoflf
had very good reasons why, even if he did make up his
mind to it, he could not propose at once. It was not that
ten years previously he had betrayed and forsaken Mas-
lova; he had quite forgotten that, and he would not have
considered it a reason for not marrying. No ! The reason
was that he had a liaison with a married woman, and,
though he considered it broken off, she did not.
Nekhludoff was rather shy with women, and his very
shyness awakened in this married woman, the unprincipled
wife of the marcchal de noblesse of a district where Nekhlu-
doff was present at an election, the desire of vanquishing
him. This woman drew him into an intimacy which entan-
gled him more and more, while it daily became more
distasteful to him. Having succumbed to the temptation,
Nekhludoff felt guilty, and had not the courage to break
the tie without her consent. And this was the reason he
did not feel at liberty to propose to Korchagin even if he
had wished to do so. Among the letters on the table was one
from this woman's husband. Seeing his writing and the
postmark, Nekhltidoff flushed, and felt his energies awak-
ening, as they always did when he was facing any kind
of danger.
But his excitement passed at once. The markhal de
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noblesse, of the district in which his largest estate lay, wrote
only to let Nekhludoff know that there was to be a special
meeting towards the end of May, and that Nekhludoff was
to be sure and come to " donner nn coup d'epaiilc," at the
important debates concerning the schools and the roads,
as a strong opposition by the reactionary party was
expected.
The marechal was a liberal, and was quite engrossed in
this fight, not even noticing the misfortune that had
befallen him,
Nekhludoff remembered the dreadful moments he had
lived through; once when he thought that the husband
had found him out and was going to challenge him, and he
was making up his mind to fire into the air ; also the terri-
ble scene he had with her when she ran out into the park,
and in her excitement tried to drown herself in the pond.
"Well, I cannot go now, and can do nothing until I
get a reply from her," thought Nekhludoff. A week ago
he had written her a decisive letter, in which he acknowl-
edged his guilt, and his readiness to atone for it; but at
the same time he pronounced their relations to be at an
end, for her own good, as he expressed it. To this letter
he had as yet received no answer. This might prove a
good sign, for if she did not agree to break off their rela-
tions, she would have written at once, or even come herself,
as she had done before. Nekhludoff had heard that there
was some officer who was paying her marked attention,
and this tormented him by awakening jealousy, and at
the same time encouraged him with the hope of escape
from the deception that was oppressing him.
The other letter was from his steward. The steward
wrote to tell h'im that a visit to his estates was necessary
in order to enter into possession, and also to decide about
the further management of his lands; whether it was to
continue in the same way as when his mother was alive,
or whether, as he had represented to the late lamented
princess, and now advised the young prince, they had not
better increase their stock and farm all the land now
rented by the peasants themselves. The steward wrote that
this would be a far more profitable way of managing the
property; at the same time, he apologised for not having
forwarded the 3,000 roubles income due on the ist. This
money would be sent on by the next mail. The reason for
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peasant? Jhn ^^h' ^' '°"^^ "°' ^^^ ^he money out'of th.
property, as he had giv^n up hi father', a„f? "" '"'
^:lSe^^aSr° '""'-^ "'trfor^M^aVwl^^
.«c?„Vb°„fthn„tT^eUt tzu'zr:^'^^'' r
out of th«>
: he had to
y disagree-
eel that he
sagreeable,
admirer of
imself heir
lie position
istice for-
rward res-
prove that
I and writ-
d acted up
old landed
1 inherited
I mother's
•rietor, he
ve up his
ten years
deas were
; had no
o serve);
he could
the same
teness of
■ unusual
ing those
of land-
s Social
he had
'ge, such
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CHAPTER IV.
MISSY.
to apoear at fh^ ^o,,-* u r • . wnat lime he was
princess PassinVth ' ^u^^'^ ^"*'"^ ^'^ ^"swer to the
hung on\he Sa'n^'^f,^ h,s studio where a few stud eS
down with some disdjn at an n?h "''' ""^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^
height of his artistic standDoint I 'f ^'^''^J^^' ^'"^"^ ^^^
that he had no righ to do so Iml /"^"°^ ^^ turned out
reminded him of In this was unll'rnf ^^^ 'Y
luxurious fittinps of thp ZZaI^^^I \ ^^ ^°°^^^ at the
was in no cheerful mood h.f h '"'V^ ^^?^>^ ^^'''^' ^"^ it
lofty room fitted up wi^h a view t^^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^'
and elegant appearance H J f. ? S?"^^"'"*' convenience,
in a pig! on horShed "YmmedLte "^ r T°"^ ^' °"^^
'^Nekhr^d'!' to appear .^^.l^t .tl^'^^^^l^ ^"^^^
prit's'stfnl^:.;tT,oT',^^^^^^ - -Pt to the
to try and come fo dTnn.r u ''?^*t^t'0"' ^nd promising
tore It up, a^TsSm' d" 00 imS "hT" ^f ""''X^'
but it was too cold ; he feared it^llhf • ^^'2^^ another,
tore it up, too. He pressed the Zt ^T °^f "'^' «° ^^
and his servant, an elderlvmnr"< ° ?" "^""tric bell,
whiskers and shaved chin w "^P'^'^^'^^P^^^K man, with
apron, entered at the door. ^''^' ^'"""^ " ^^^^ <^<^tton
;; Send to fetch an isvostchik, please."
Yes, sir. ^
"And tell the person who is waitine- that T c««^ 4.u 1
for the invitation, and shall try to S." *^^"^'
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" Yes, sir."
" It is not very, polite, but I can't write ; no matter, I
shall see her to-day," thought Nekhludoff, and went to get
his overcoat.
When he came out of the house, an isvostchik he knew,
with india-rubber tires to his trap, was at the door waiting
for him. " You had hardly gone away from Prince Kor-
chagin's yesterday," he said, turning half round, " when
I drove up, and the Swiss at the door says, ' just gone.' "
The isvostchik knew that Nekhliidoflf visited at the Kor-
chagins, and called there on the chance of being engaged
by him.
" Even the isvostchiks know of my relations with the
Korchagins," thought Nekhludoff, and again the question
whether he should not marry Princess Korchagin pre-
sented itself to him, and he could not decide it either way,
any more than most of the questions that arose in his mind
at this time.
It was in favour of marriage in general, that besides the
comforts of hearth and home, it made a moral life possible,
and chiefly that a family would, so Nekhliidoflf thought, give
an aim to his now empty life.
Against marriage in general was the fear, common to
bachelors past their first youth, of losing freedom, and an
unconscious awe before this mysterious creature, a woman.
In this particular case, in favour of marrying Missy (her
name was Mary, but, as is usual among a certain set, a
nickname had been given her) was that she came of good
family, and differed in everything, manner of speaking,
walking, laughing, from the common people, not by any-
thing exceptional, but by her " good breeding " — he could
find no other term for this quality, though he prized it
very highly — and, besides, she thought more of him than
of anybody else, therefore evidently understood him. This
understanding of him, i.e., the recognition of his superior
merits, was to Nekhludoff a proof of her good sense and
correct judgment. Against marrying Missy in particular,
was, that in all likelihood, a girl with even higher qualities
could be found, that she was already 27, and that he was
hardly her first love. This last idea was painful to him.
His pride would not reconcile itself with the thought that
she had loved some one else, even in the past. Of course, she
could not have known that she should meet him, but the
.
the
So
at
lau
rer
tur
lie;
Ic
tha
wa;
on,
asp
as
rig]
he
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thought that she was capable of loving another offended him.
So that he had as many reasons for marrying as against it ;
at any rate, they weighed equally with Nekhludoff, who
laughed at himself, and called himself the ass of the fable,
remaining like that animi 1 undecided which haycock to
turn to.
" At any rate, before I get an answer from Mary Vasi-
lievna (the marechal's wife), and finish completely with her,
I can do nothing," he said to himself. And the conviction
that he might, and was even obliged, to delay his decision,
was^ comforting. " Well, I shall consider all that later
on," he said to himself, as the trap drove silently along the
asphalt pavement up to the doors of the Court.
" Now I must fulfil my public duties conscientiously,
as I am in the habit of always doing, and as I consider it
right to do. Besides, they are often interesting." And
he entered the hall of the Law Courts, past the doorkeeper.
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CHAPTER V.
THE JURYMEN.
The corridors of the Court were already full of activity.
1 he attendants hurried, out of breath, draeeing their feet
along the ground without lifting them, backwards and for-
wards, with all sorts of messages and papers. Ushers
ptS'' ^"^'^^ P^""'"' P^"^'^ h.ther and thither.'
Plaintiffs and those of the accused who were not guarded
wandered sadly along the walls or sat waiting,
tendant ^^ '^ *^^ ^^"^ Court? " Nekhludoff asked of an at-
CouIJ!"'"^" '^^''' '' *^' ^^^" ^^"'■^ ^"^ *^^ Criminal
" I am on the jury."
• "J^^ Criminal Court you should have said. Here to the
right, then to the left— the second door "
Nekhludoff followed the direction
l..^?Tu '' '°T,' ""^ ^^^ Criminal Court jurymen who were
late had hurriedly passed into a separate room. At the
aoor mentioned two men stood waiting.
One, a tall, fat merchant, a kind-hearted fellow, had evi-
dently partaken of some refreshments and a glass of some-
thmg,and was in most pleasant spirits. The other was a
shopman of Jewish extraction. They were talking about
hL^-;?!,-''^ '^°?u ^^'" Nekhludoff came up and asked
them if this was the jurymen's room.
" Yp, my dear sir, this is it. One of us ? On the jury, are
you? 'asked the merchant, with a merry wink
Ah, well we shall have a go at the work together " he
continued, after Nekhludoff had answered in the affirma-
CnliH'T^ "r' f.B^klash6ff, merchant of the Second
^wtu u u' P"t'"u^ u"* ^'' ^''°^^' «oft, flexible hand.
With whom have I the honour ? "
Nekhludoff gave his name and passed into the jurymen's
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Inside tht: room were about ten persons of all sorts
They had come but a short while ago, and some were st
tnig, others walking up and down, biking at eacrother"
and mak.ng each other's acquaintance. There was a re'
tired colonel m uniform; some were in frock coaTs others
"T"d""fcer.ll'r? °"^^ °"^ r^' ^ peasantrdr;sf "'
prosnect of Inlfi ' ''' ^ "kT-'^T ^°°^ °^ satisfaction at the
prpspect of fulfilling a public duty, although many of them
fng ofh. '"' *''"'■ »^"«^"^««^«' and mos^ were compS
wel!h^er^"/hr'"i ^^^^^^ ^"^°"^ themselves about the
7Zfh. If' ^^ -P""^' ^"^ ^he business before them
waT wlir'"lhor" r''°^"'^^' ""'^''^ J"«t guessing X
was who. Those who were not acquainted with Nekhlu-
speaking English, Frerchfand German with a good acce«
tl t '?" "T'"S *^^ •>"' «n™. clothes, ties and Ss
bought from the most expensive dealers in these i«,rt,h!:
?ioritv'"7. Z"l» "V't ",.^. '^^-" for crafmfng°ttipe!
^„„,!V ., " '^™^ ""'« li' 'lid c'aim superiority and ac-
KdnoTgetT^In^^;! •'" ^^ "l'' <'"^' --1 was h"urt f
happened to be a man whom he knew, f former ^eache?
of h,s sister's children, Peter Gerasimoviteh NekhWdofI
S-wa'-s'^ra^^^^-^^^^^^^^^^^^
l-StCritn^tt'^™"''^'^' ''^-^'^^^^
g.o^m';a^^ie;,ir^^!r^^^^^^^
2:drgrou.«o7r>'i.^^'^''""''°« "«- ^- -' -::
glooLrand-^^-a'trne^^lsrert"'" ^^""^^ ^'■'•"^"'°«'
£,o'i' -i-g- ^sfee?;- „t1-g to-'o^ tu^
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4
.u " -^u^^^T^?,^^, ^ P"^^* w^" be saying ' thou '* to me next "
thought Nekhludoff, and walked away, with suchTlook of
sadness on his face, as might have been natural if he had just
heard of the death of all his relations. He came up to a
group that had formed itself round a clean-shaven, tall
digmhed man, who was recounting something with ereat
animation This man was talking about the trial going on
in the Civil Court as of a case well known to himself, men-
tioning the judges and a celebrated advocate by name He
was saying that it seemed wonderful how the celebrated
IfflfrT.^"^ ?/!'l^^^J'' ^^^^ '"^^ ^ clever turn to the
affair that an old lady, though she had the right on her side
would have to pay a large sum to her opponent " The
advocate is a genius," he said.
The listeners heard it all with respectful attention and
IZZfX^ '^'"^ -r^^ '^ P"f ^" ^ ^•°^^' but the man n?er-
rupted them, as if he alone knew all about it
Though Nekhludoff had arrived late, he "had to wait a
long time One of the members of the Court had not yet
come, and everybody was kept waiting.
*In Russian, as in many other languages, "thou" is used c-ener
tSUSV^'" ""''' ^'"""'^^ ^'*^ efch other? oJ'bysupSr's
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CHAPTER VI.
THE JUDGES.
The president, who had to take the chair, had arrived
^i.^,- ^"e president was a tall, stout man, with lone erev
whiskers Though married, he led a very loose life, and his
wife did the same, so they did not stand in each other's way.
1 his morning he had received a note from a Swiss girl, who
had formerly been a governess in his house, and who was
now on her way from South Russia to St. Petersburg She
wrote that she would wait for him between five and six
p.m. m the Hotel Italia. This made him wish to begin and
get through the sitting as soon as possible, so as to have
time to call before six p.m. on the little red-haired Clara
Vasihevna, with whom he had begun a romance in the
country last summer. He went into a private room, latched
the door, took a pair of dumb-bells out of a cupboard,
moved his arms 20 times upwards, downwards, forwards,
and sideways then holding the dumb-bells above his head,
lightly bent his knees three times.
" Nothing keeps one going like a cold bath and exer-
f\?u ^ said, feeling the biceps of his right arm with his
left hand, on the third finger of which he wore a gold ring
He had still to do the moulinee movement (for he always
went through those two exercises before a long sitting)
when there was a pull at the door. The president quickly
put away the dumb-bells and opened the door, savin? "I
beg your pardon." > j &> '■
One of the members, a high-shouldered, discontented-
looking man ;yith gold spectacles, came into the room.
Matthew Nikitich has again not come," he said, in a dis-
satisfied tone.
"Not yet?" said the president, putting on his uniform.
He is always late.
"It is extraordinary. He ought to be ashamed of him-
self, said the member, angrily, and taking out a cigarette
This member, a very precise man, had had an unpleasant
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encounter with his wife in the morning, because she had
spent her allowance before the end of the month, and had
asked him to give her some money in advance, but he
would not give way to her, and they had a quarrel. The
wife told him that if he were going to behave so, he need
not expect any dinner ; there would be no dinner for him
at home. At this point he left, fearing that she might carry
oirt her threat, for anything might be expected from her.
Ihis comes of living a good, moral life," he thought,
looking at the beaming, healthy, cheerful, and kindly presi-
dent, who with elbows far apart, was smoothing his thick
grey whiskers with his fine white hands over the embroid-
ered collar of his uniform. " He is always contented and
merry while I am suffering."
The secretary came in and brought some document
• thanks very much," said the president, lighting a
cigarette. "Which case shall we take first, then? "
The poisoning case, I should say," answered the secre-
tary, with indifiference.
"All right; the poisoning case let it be," said the presi-
dent, thinking that he could get this case over bv four
o clock, and then go away. " And Matthew Nikitich ; has
he come ?
" Not yet."
"And Breve?"
I' He is here," replied the secretary.
" Then if you see him, please tell him that we begin with
the poisoning case."
Breve was the public prosecutor, who was to read the
indictment in this case.
In the corridor the secretary met Breve, who, with up-
lifted shoulders, a portfolio under one arm, the other swing-
ing with the palm turned to the front, was hurrying along
the corridor, clattering with his heels.
" Michael Petrovitch wants to know if you are ready ^ "
the secretary asked.
" Of course ; I am always ready," said the public prose-
cutor. " What are we taking first ? "
" The poisoning case."
" That's quite right," said the public prosecutor, but did
not think it at all right. He had spent the night in a
P'"^>"=& ^aius -.-.il:: a iiiciiu vvliu was giving a fat'ewell
party. Up to five in the morning they played and drank,
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,
so he had no time to look at this poisoning case, and meant
o run ,t through now. The secretary, happening to know
Uus, advised the president to begin with the poisoning eas^
The secretary was a Liberal, even a Radical, in opinion "
Breve vyas a Conservative ; the secretary disliked him
and envied him his position. '
^^^" Well, and how about the Skoptay?"* asked the secre-
" I have already said that I cannot do it without wit-
nesses, and so I shall say to the Court."
" Dear me, what does it matter^"
rZ ^ f ^ u"°^ "^^ '*'" '^'^ ^'■^^^ ' ^"^' waving his arm, he
ran into his private room.
He was putting off the case of the Skopt::y on account
of the absence of a very unimportant wit/ess, his Tea
reason being that if they were tried by an educated iurv
they might possibly be acquitted. ^uucatea jury
tnv/ fn" ,t^'"^^"^^."t with the president this case was to be
tried in the coming session at a provincial town, where
o^'conTtlon "°'' P''^'"^'' '"^' ^'^^^^^^'•^' "^^'"^ '^^^^^^
The movement in the corridor increased. The people
cas^thatT/','' '-'i^^^^" "' " ^.^-" C^"'-^' '" -hiKe
case that the dignified man .a^Ked about was being heard
An interval m the proceeding occurred, and the old
woman came out of the court, whose prope;ty that eren?us
of an advocate had fotmd means of getting fo? his clfent a
person versed in law who had no right to ft whatever The
judges knew all abot.t the case, and the advoca^Iand his
client knevv ,t better still, but the move thev had invented
nrnnt"^'' '^ H '' ''^' ''i^POSsible not to take the old woman's
property and not to hand it over to the person versed in
The old woman was stout, well dressed, and had enor-
TthlHT''°'l''''^°.""^*' '^'^ ^*°PP^d as she cam out
of the door, and spreading out her short fat arms and turn-
ing to her advocate, she kept repeating: '' What does U all
mean ? Just fancy ! " ' i- & w imi uoes it an
The advocate 'was looking at the flowers in her bonnet
Next to the old woman, out of the door of the Civil
* A religious sect.
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Court, his broad, starched shirt front gHstenin^ from under
his low-cut waistcoat, with a self-satisfied look on his "ace
m\Te s'^so t'ailh' '1:i°^'*^ "^°, ^^^ managedTo arrange
matters so that the old woman lost all she had and the
loubles. The advocate passed close to the old woman and
quired." expressions of deference are re-
)m under
his face,
> arrange
and the
ICX),CXX>
lan, and,
bearing
are re-
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CHAPTER VII.
THE OFFICIALS OF THE COURT.
h.™ this place, and he was very pleased to hav^ kept it so
,, Councillor of State,* J. M. Nikiforoff r "
the haCs'o'f thi'faw cour?'*'''-'°°''"« ™"' -" -^-^ '»
" {y„^" Semiinovitch Ivanoff, retired colonel ! "
officer ''" "' ^ *'" '"^°' '" "'^ """o™ of a retired
;; Merchant of the Second Guild, Peter BaklashefF' "
withlTroTd'^ife""^' " ''^ *^ Sood-humoured^i^erchant,
GnSrEunhT^t'h "^llJlSl^IJ^^-D-'^ltko, merchant;
pres'ent. ' -tlleshoff, „c. /ill but two were
• Grades such as this are common in Russia, and mean very little.
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" Now please to come to the court, gentlemen," said the
usher, pomtmg to the door, with an amiable wave of his
hand.
All moved towards the door, pausing to let each other
pass Then they went through the corridor into the court
Ihe court was a large, long room. At one end there was
a raised platform, with three steps leading up to it, on
which stood a table, covered with a green cloth trimmed
with a fringe of a darker shade. At the table were placed
three arm-chairs, with high-carved oak backs; on the wall
behind them hung a full-length, brightly-coloured portrait
ot the iimperor in uniform and ribbon, with one foot in ad-
vance, and holding a sword. In the right corner hung a
case, with an image of Christ crowned with thorns, and
beneath it stood a lectern, and on the same side the prose-
cuting attorney s desk. On the left, opposite the desk, was
the secretary s table, and in front of it. nearer the public, an
oak grating with the prisoners' bench, as yet unoccupied,
behind it. Besides all this, there were on the right side of
the platform high-backed ashwood chairs for the jury and
on the floor below tables for the advocates. All this was in
the front part of the court, divided from the back by a crat-
ing. ^ ^
The back was all taken up by seats in tiers. Sitting on
the front seats were four women, either servant or factory
girls, and two working men, evidently overawed by the
grandeur of the room, and not venturing to speak above a
whisper.
Soon after the jury had come in the usher entered, with
his sideward gait, and stepping to the front, called out in a
loud voice, as if he meant to frighten those present, "The
Court IS coming!" Every one got up as the members
stepped on to the platform. Among them the president
with his muscles and fine whiskers. Next came the gloomy
member of the Court, who was now more gloomy than ever
having met his brother-in-law, who informed him that he
had just called in to see his sister (the member's wife) and
that she had told him that there would be no dinner there.
"So that, evidently, we shall have to call in at a cook
shop," the brother-in-law added, laughing.
"It is not at all funny," said the gloomy member, and be-
came gloomier still.
Then at last came the third member of the Court, the
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same Matthew Nikitich, who was always late. He was a
bearded man, with large, round, kindly eyes. He vvarsuf
fering from a catarrh of the stomach, and, accordinTto h s
thTs1:rktM'-'" ';\' ^^^V" ^'•^•"^^ new treS^and
this had kept him at home longer than usual. Now as he
was ascending the platform, he had a pensive air HeWas
m the habit of making guesses in answer to all sorts of sdf
put questions by dififerent curious means. Just now he had
hSIeSSetthaJ': "^", f^^^-^ -onM d blnTfidal and
stem frnl fli * T"u^ 'u'^ '''' ""^^^''^ '^ the number of
m^?i li } ^ '^r'* *° ^'^ ^^^•'' ^°"ld divide by three. He
maje 26 steps, but managed to get in a 27th just by Ws
The figures of the p. osident and the members in their uni-
forms, with gold-embroidered collars, looked very imposhi^
They seemed to feel this themselves, and. as if overpowered
hLi ^'if"^" •?''^"^f"'-' hurriedly sat down on the S-
backed chairs id the table with the green cloth on
which were a rular article with an eagle^at the top two
&inTfr7r"^''"^ ^'^' '^''' ^" ^hifh sweetmeat; are
kept in refreshment rooms— an inkstand, pens clean mner
and good newly-cut pencils of dififerent kfnds ^ ^ '
t^.r.^^P" ,P'°'^''"^'''' ^^'"^ '" w'th the judges. With his
portfolio under one arm, and swinging the other he huJ!
Th.'^n^h''."^- '^ '^^.^' ''^' "^^^ the wiSdoi, and wa 'instanUy
absorbed in reading and looking through the papers ndt
wasting a single moment, in hope of being ready S Te
business commenced. He had been public prosector but
a short time, and had only prosecuted four tim^es before thi"
He was very ambitious, and had firmly made up his mind to
get on, and therefore thought it necessary to get a coSion
whenever he prosecuted. He knew the chief facts of he
poisoning case and had already formed a plan of action
He only wanted to copy out a few points whi?h he requ ed'
The secretary sat on the opposite side of the platforrn
and, having got ready all the papers he might want w?s
looking through an article, prohibited by the censor" wllh
he had procured and read the day before. He was anx nn«
to have a talk about this article with the beardid member
who shared his views, but wanted to look through it once
more before doing so. ^ ^
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CHAPTER VIII.
SWEARING IN THE JURY.
The president, having looked through some papers and
put a few questions to the usher and the secretary, gave the
order for the prisoners to be brought in.
The door behind the grating was instantly opened, and
two gendarmes, with caps on their heads, and holding naked
swords in their hands, came in, followed by the prisoners, a
red-haired, freckled man, and two women. The man wore
a prison cloak, which was too long and too wide for him.
He stuck out his thumbs, and held his arms close to his sides,
thus keeping the sleeves, which were also too long, from
slipping over his hands. Without looking at the judges he
gazed steadfastly at the form, and passing to the other side
of it, he sat down carefully at the very edge, leaving plenty
of room for the others. He fixed his eyes on the president,
and began moving the muscles of his cheeks, as if whisper-
ing something. The woman who came next was also dressed
in a prison cloak, and had a prison kerchief round her head.
She had a sallow complexion, no eyebrows or lashes, and
very red eyes. This woman appeared perfectly calm. Hav-
ing caught her cloak against something, she detached it
carefully, without any haste, and sat down.
The third prisoner was Maslova.
As soon as she appeared, the eyes of all the men in the
court turned her way, and remained fixed on her white face,
her sparklingly-brilliant black eyes and the swelling bosom
under the prison cloak. Even the gendarme whom she
passed on her way to her seat looked at her fixedly till she
sat down, and then, as if feeling guilty, hurriedly turned-
away, shook himself, and began staring at the window in
front of him.
The president paused until the prisoners had taken their
seats, and when Maslova was seated, turned to the secretary.
Then the usual procedure commenced ; the counting of
the jury, remarks about those who had not come, the fixing
f,,jitA«Kk
papers and
ry, gave the
Dpened, and
ilding naked
prisoners, a
e man wore
ide for him.
to his sides,
long, from
le judges he
le other side
iving plenty
le president,
! if whisper-
also dressed
nd her head.
lashes, and
calm. Hav-
detached it
I men in the
r white face,
filing bosom
whom she
cedly till she
iedly turned
J window in
1 taken their
he secretary.
counting of
le, the fixing
ALL SAl- DOWN ACAIN ON THE HIGH-BACKED CHAIRS."
Book I. Chapter 8.
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of "hi' ells'tl? T" ^\°^ P^P" »"d PW «>em in oae
h.s .sleeves, ,he president requested ^hfpSTo 's'^e^HS
The jurymen got up, and crowded towards the lectern
had drawn near fc^th^^'^v. ^i'^r*^ *"^ ^" the jury
ffether thus " i!..!?:; m this way, and put your fingers to^
hfs fit riimAkH t ''j' "'i*" *"" tremulous old voice hftine
finger 'tSe? ^slfV.T" P''«»?*e thumb and two firsi
urM1„•'?l^s«r^w^l''^;t '"e^^^^^^
hfremardV" '"'"'' '« ToSarm'downl foT/ t!i 'e"thU "
n, J^jf "1'^"'^^^ n^an with the whiskers, the colonel the
q^«,o 1 *. !u • *^^§^htened, hurried to catch up the nrip<!t
separatinp- r,nH Hri;„p. *},„:- 'ti"'"s tney ntld , others kept
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II J'
I' I
If ,
After the swearing m, the president requested the jury to
choose a foreman, and the jury, thronging to the door
passed out into the debating-room, where almost all of them
at once began to smoke cigarettes. Some one proposed the
.iSf'^ T.!"^"u^'- ^^'■^"^a"' and he was unanimously ac-
cepted. 1 hen the jurymen put out their cigarettes and threw
them away and returned to the court. The dignified man in-
formed the president that he was chosen foreman, and all sat
down again on the high-backed chairs.
Everything went smoothly, quickly, and not without a
certain solemnity. And this exactitude, order, and solem-
nity evidently pleased those who took part in it: it strength-
ened the inipression that they were fulfilling a serious and
valuable public duty. Nekhludoflf, too, felt this
As soon as the jurymen were seated, the president made a
speech on their rights, obligations, and responsibilities.
Whik speaking he kept changing his position ; now leaning
on his right, now on his left hand, now against the back,
then on the arms of his chair, now putting the papers
straight, now handling his pencil and paper-knife
, According to his words, they hi. I the right of interrogat-
ing the prisoners through the preside^it, to use paper and
pencils, and to examine the articles put in as evidence. Their
duty was to judge not falsely, but justly. Their respon-
sibility meant that If the secrecy of their discussion were
violated, or communications were established with outsiders,
they would be liable to punishment. Every one listened
with an expression of respectful attention. The merchant,
diffusing a smell of brandy around him, and restraining
loud hiccups, approvingly nodded his head at every sen-
tence. "^
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CHAPTER IX.
THE TRIAL-— THE PRISONERS QUESTIONED.
When he had finished his speech, the president turned to
the male prisoner.
"Simeon Kartini<in, rise."
Simeon jumped up, his lips continuing to move nervously
and maudibly. ^
" Your name ? ''
" Simon Petrov Kartinkin," he said, rapidly, with a
cracked voice, having evidently prepared the answer.
What class do you belong to ? "
;' Peasant." ^
" What government, district, and parish ? "
"Your age?"
i! t^m'*"^^'*!?.^^^ ' ^^^^ '" t^e year one thousand eight— "
What religion ? "
" Of the Russian religion, orthodox."
Married?"
" Oh, no, sir."
" Your occupation ? "
'' I had a place in the Hotel Mauritania."
^^ Have you ever been tried before ? "
form T— " ^°^ *"^^ before, because, as we used to live
'' So you never were tried before ? "
" God forbid, never."
" Have you received a copy of the indictment? "
I have.
"^ Sit down."
"Euphemia Ivanovna Botchkova," said the president
turning to the next prisoner. '
But Simon continued standing in front of Botchkova
u K:^^*!"!'!"' ^^^ <^own ! " Kartinkin continued standing.
Kartmkin, sit down ! " But Kartinkin sat down only
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when the usher, with his head on one side, and with preter-
naturally wide-open eyes, ran up, and said, in a tragic whis-
per, " Sit down, sit down! "
Kartinkin sat down as hurriedly as he had risen, wrap-
ping his cloak round him, and again began moving his lips
silently.
"Your name?" asked the president, with a weary sigh
at being obliged to repeat the same questions, witliout look-
ing at the prisoner, but glancing over a paper that lay before
him. The president was so used to his task that, in order to
get quicker through it all, he did two things at a time.
Botchkova was forty-three years old, and came from the
town of Kalomna. She, too, had been in service at the
Hotel Mauritania.
" I have never been tried before, and have received a copy
of the indictment." She gave her answers boldly, in a tone
of voice as if she meant to add to each answer, " And I don't
care who knows it, and I won't stand any nonsense."
She did not wait to be told, but sat down as soon as she
had replied to the last question.
"Your name?" turning abruptly to the third prisoner.
" You will have to rise," he added, softly and gently, seeing
that Maslova kept her seat.
Maslova got up and stood, with her chest expanded,
looking at the president with that peculiar expression of
readiness in her smiling black eyes.
" What is your name? "
" Lubov," she said.
Nekhludoff had put on his pince-nea, looking at the pris-
oners while they were being questioned.
" No, it is impossible," he thought, not taking his eyes off
the prisoner. "Lubov! How can it be?" he thought to
himself, after hearing her answer. The president was going
to continue his questions, but the member with the spec-
tacles interrupted him, angrily whispering something. The
president nodded, and turned again to the prisoner.
" How is this," he said, " you are not put down here as
Lubov?"
The prisoner remained silent.
" I want your real name."
" What is your baptismal name ? " asked the angry mem-
ber.
" Formerly I used to be called Katerina."
and with preter-
in a tragic whis-
lad risen, wrap-
moving his lips
th a 'veary sigh
IS, witliout look-
!r that lay before
that, in order to
3 at a time,
i came from the
1 service at the
; received a copy
boldly, in a tone
;r, " And I don't
Dnsense."
1 as soon as she
third prisoner,
id gently, seeing
:hest expanded, j
r expression of I
<ing at the pris-
dng his eyes off
' he thought to
ident was going J
with the spec- I
omething. The '
risoner.
It down here as
the angry mem-
MASLOVA cot up and stood with her CHESr EXPANUEO."
Book I. Chapter q.
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" No, it cannot be," said Nekhludoff to himself ; and yet
he was now certain that this was she, that same girl, half
ward, half servant to his aunts; that Katusha, with whom
he had once been in love, really in love, but whom he had
betrayed and then abandoned, and never again brought to
mind, for the memory would have been too painful, would
have convicted him too clearly, proving that he who was so
proud of his integrity had treated this woman in a revolting,
scandalous way.
Yes, this was she. He now clearly saw in her face that
strange, indescribable individuah*' which distinguishes
every face from all others; somMiniiig !>:^culiar, all its own,
not to be found anywhere else, Tn spit :- of the unhealthy
pallor and the fulness of the kze, it wa;- there, this sweet,
peculiar individuality; on those tips, in t\e slight squint of
her eyes, in the voice, particularly''.- the naive smile, and in
the expression of readiness on the face and figure
" You should have said so," remarked the president, again
in a gentle tone. " Your patronymic ? "
" I am illegitimate."
" Well, were you not called by your godfather's name ? "
'] Yes, Mikhaelovna."
And what is it she can be guilty of? " continued Nekh-
ludoflF, in his mind, unable to breathe freely.
" Your family name — your surname, I mean ? " the presi-
dent went on.
" They used to call me by my mother's surname, Mds-
lova."
"What class?"
" Meschanka."*
" Religion — orthodox ? "
" Orthodox."
" Occupation. What was your occupation ? "
Maslova remained silent.
" What was your employment ? "
" You know yourself," she said, and smiled. Then, cast-
ing a hurried look round the room, again turned her eyes on
the president.
There was something so unusual in the expression of her
face, so terrible and piteous in the meaning of the words she
had uttered, in this smile, and in the furtive glance she had
cast round the room, that the president was abashed, and for
* The lowest town class or grade.
wmm
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Is*
m
a few minutes silence reigned in the court. The silence was
broken by some one among the public laughing, then some-
body said "Ssh.' and the president looked up and con-
tinued : *^
" Have you ever been tried before ? "
'' Never," answered Maslova, softly, and sighed.
^^ Have you received a copy of the indictment? "
1 have, she answered.
" Sit down."
The prisoner leant back to pick up her skirt in the way
a tine lady picks up her train, and sat down, folding her
sma 1 white nands in the sleeves of her cloak, her eyes fixed
on the president. Her face was calm again.
The vvitnesses were called, and some sent away the
doctor who was to act as expert was chosen and called into
the court.
Then the secretary got up and began reading the indict-
ment.^ He read distinctly, though he pronounced the " 1 "
and r alike, with a loud voice, but so quickly that the
words ran into one another and formed one uninterruoted
dreary drone. ^ '
The judges bent now on one, now on the other arm of
their chairs, then on the table, then back again, shut and
opened their eyes, and whispered to each other. One of the
gendarmes several times repressed a yawn.
The prisoner Kartinkin never stopped moving his cheeks.
Botchkova sat quite still and straight, only now and then
scratching her head under the kerchief.
Maslova sat immovable, gazing at the reader; only now
and then she gave a slight start, as if wishing to replv,
blushed, sighed heavily, and changed the position of her
^AT ,', P^!"^?. ^°""''' ^"^ ^S^'" fi^ed her eyes on the reader.
Nekhludoff sat in the front row on his high-backed chair
without removing- his pince-nes, and looked at Maslova!
while a complicated and fierce st uggle was going on in his
dissol'
lence was
len some-
and con-
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CHAPTER X.
the way
ding her
yes fixed
vay; the
died into
e indict-
the " 1 "
that the
irrupted,
■ arm of
hut and
le of the
1 cheeks,
nd then
tily now
o reply,
of her
: reader,
d chair,
laslova,
n in his
I
I
THE TRIAL — THE INDICTMENT.
The indictment ran as follows :
On the 17th of January, i8_, in the lodging-house Mau-
ch»n Vr""''' 't? 'V.'^''™ '^'=^* °f 'h« Second Gu Id mer-
chant, Therapont Emilianovich Smelkoff, of Kourrin
The local pohce doctor of the fnurth d strict ceSd that
death was due to rupture of the heart, owing to texc«
wa mer/ed "A°ff "''""", 7^' ^y °' the%aid SnXff
l-civea me sum of 3,800 roubles from the bank Whpn or,
W^li c ^"t" ^ Kartmkm s advice, gave the said Smel
Koff some white powder Hven tn h-r Lftu • 1 t- ^^?'"
cl*ssolved in brandy ^ Kartinkin,
4. The next morning the said Liibka (alias Katerina
hi '
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Maslova) sold to her mistress, the witness Kitieva, a
brothel-keeper, a diamond ring given to her, as she alleged,
by the said Smelkoflf.
5. The housemaid of the lodging-house Mauritania,
Euphemia Botchkova, placed to her account in the local
Commercial Bank 1,800 roubles. The post-mortem exam-
ination of the body of the said Smelkoff and the chemical
analysis of his intestines proved beyond doubt the presence
of poison in the organism, so that there is reason to believe
that the said Smelkoflf's death was caused by poisoning.
When cross-examined, the accused, Maslova, Botchkova,
and Kartinkin, pleaded not guilty, deposing — Maslova, that
she had really been sent by Smelkoff from the brothel,
where she " works," as she expresses it, to the lodging-
house Mauritania to get the merchant some money, and that,
having unlocked the portmanteau with a key given her by the
merchant, she took out 40 roubles, as she was told to do, and
that she had takep nothing more ; that Botchkova and Kar-
tinkin, in whose presence she unlocked and locked the port-
manteau, could testify to the truth of the statement.
She gave this further evidence — that when she came to
the lodging-house for the second time she did, at the insti-
gation of Simeon Kartinkin, give Smelkoff some kind of
powder, which she thought was a narcotic, in a glass of
brandy, hoping he would fall asleep and that she would be
able to get away from him; and that Smelkoff, having
beaten her, himself gave her the ring when she cried and
threatened to go away.
The accused, Euphemia Botchkova, stated that she knew
nothing about the missing money, that she had not even
gone into Smelkofif's room, but that Liibka had been busy
there all by herself ; that if anything had been stolen, it must
have been done by Lubka when she came with the mer-
chant's key to get his money.
At this point Maslova gave a start, opened her mouth,
and looked at Botchkova. "When," continued the secre-
tary, "the receipt for 1,800 roubles from the bank was
shown to Botchkova, and she was asked where she had ob-
tained the money, she said that it was her own earnings for
12 years, and those of Simeon, whom she was going to
marry. The accused Simeon Kartinkin, when first exam-
ined, confessed that he and Botchkova, at the instigation of
Maslova, who had come with the key from the brothel, had
Cit^eva, a
le alleged,
auritania,
the local
tm exam-
chemical
: presence
to believe
ining.
otchkova,
lova, that
: brothel,
lodging-
and that,
ler by the
:o do, and
and Kar-
the port-
: came to
the insti-
i kind of
glass of
would be
f, having
cried and
she knew
not even
)een busy
n, it must
the mer-
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an^MisLT'^ere V' 1"^'^ '' '-^"^"^^ "'"^"^ themselves
Zr.V.T A u^l- M^slova agam started, half-rose from
her seat, and, blushmg scarlet, began to say something bu
tTnued r^dln^'-'T; f^' " ')^ '''''' '''' secretary^'co -
ni?.^ .1 f ' ^"^artmkm confessed also that he had sup-
plied the powders m order to get Smelkoff to sleep When
examined the second time he denied having had a^mhing to
do with the stealing of the money or giving MLlovatle
powders, accusing her of having done il alone "
he sa^'ThTf.,!!'' ""T^ Pj^''^ ^" '^^ '^^"^ bv Botchkova,
he said he same as she, that is, that the money was dven
to them both by the lodgers in tips during 12 years' efv^c"
The indictment concluded as follows •
vilh^e^ rX "l- °^' *''?^ ^"r^P'"8:' the peasant of the
village Borki, Simeon Kartinkin, 27 years of a^e the
meschanka Euphemia Botchkova, 43 years of a^e fnd h^
meschanka Katerina Maslova, ^/yti'sof age, fre accused
of haying on the 17th day :f January, iSS-^ ointly sto en
from the said merchant, Smelkoff, a ring and monev to the
chtnt 1m'i°?ff °nn-"' ?'.^' 1^^^'"^ ^^-" tr"said'me !
Mm of 1^ ,' ?°''T *° ^""^' w'th intent of depriving
him of life, and thereby causing his death. This crime^f
provided for in clause 1,455 of the Penal Code, §§ 4 anTs
;r mouth,
he secre-
bank was
e had ob-
nings for
going to
■st exam-
gation of
)thel, had
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CHAPTER XI.
THE TRIAL MASLOVA CROSS-EXAMINED.
When the reading of the indictment was over, the presi-
dent, after having consulted the members, turned to Kar-
tinkin, with an expression that plainly said : Now we shall
find out the whole truth down to the minutest detail.
" Peasant Simeon Kartinkin," he said, stooping to the
left.
Simeon Kartinkin got up, stretched his arms down his
sides, and leaning forward with his whole body, continued
moving his cheeks inaudibly.
" You ar. accused of having on the 17th January, 188 — ,
together with Euphemia Botchkova and Katerina Maslova,
stolen money from a portmanteau belongin;? to the merchant
Snielkoff, and then, having procured some arsenic, per-
suaded Katerina Maslova to give it to the merchant Smel-
koff in a glass of brandy, which was the cause of Smelkoflf's
death. Do you plead guilty ? " said the president, stooping
to the right.
" Not nohow, because our business is to attend on the
lodgers, and "
" You'll tell us that afterwards. Do you plead guilty?"
" Oh, no, sir. I only "
"You'll tell us that afterwards. Do you plead guilty?"
quietly and firmly asked the president.
Can't do such a thing, because that-
The usher again rushed up to Simeon Kartinkin, and
stopped him in a tragic whisper.
The president moved the hand with which he held the
paper and placed the elbow in a different position wi*h an air
that said : " This is finished," and turned to Euphemia
Botchkova.
" Euphemia Botchkova, you are accused of having, on the
17th of January, 188 — , in the lodging-house Mauritania,
together with Simeon Kartinkin and Katerina Maslova,
stolen some money and a ring out of the merchant Smel-
i
1
he presi-
to Kar-
we shall
g to the
iown his
:ontinued
y, i88— ,
Maslova,
merchant
nic, per-
nt Smel-
melkoff's
stooping
d on the
guilty?"
guilty?"
ikin, and
held the
!*h an air
!uphemia
g, on the
lur'.tania,
Maslova,
nt Smel-
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koff's portmanteau, and having shared the money amofo-
yourselves, given poison to the merchant Smelkoff, then- y
causmg his death. Do you plead guilty? "
" I am not guilty of anything," boldly and firmly replied
the prisoner. " I never went near the room, but when this
baggage went in she did the whole business."
''You will say all this afterwards," the president again
said, quietly and firmly. " So you do not plead guilty? "
"I did not take the money nor give the drink, nor go into
the room. Had I gone in I should have kicked her out."
" So you do not plead guilty ? "
" Never."
" Very well."
" Katerina Maslova," the president began, turning to the
third prisoner, " you are accused of having come from the
brothel with the key of the merchant Smelkcff's portman-
teau, money, and a ring." He said all this like a lesson
learned by heart, leaning towards the member on his left
who was whispering into his ear that a bottle mentioned in
the list of the material evidence was missing. " Of having
stolen out of the portmanteau money and a ring" he re-
peated '' and shared it. Then, returning to the lodging-
house Mauritania with SmelkoflF, of giving him poison in
his drmk, and thereby causing his death. Do you plead
T " .1^ a^f" not guilty of anything," she began rapidly. "As
1 said before I say again, I did not take it— I did not take it •
1 did not take anything, and the ring he gave me himself." '
You do not plead guilty of having stolen 2,500
roubles?" asked the president. ^
" I've said I took nothing but the 40 roubles."
" Well, and do you plead guilty of having given the mer-
chant Smelkoflf a powder in his drink?"
" Yes, that I did. Only I believed what they told me, that
they were sleeping powders, and that no harm could come
ot them. I never thought, and never v/i^ihed. God
IS my witness; I say, I never meant this," she said.
So you do not plead guilty of having stolen the m. -uey
and the ring from the merchant SmelkoflF, but confess that
^°"w^f powdej?" said the president.
yv e.i, yes, I do confess this, but I thought thev were
sleeping powders. I only gave them to make him sleep; I
never meant and never thought of worse."
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"Very well," said the president, evidently satisfied with
the results gained. " Now tell us how it all happened, and
he leaned back in his chair ;;.nd put his folded hands ( n» tne
table. " Tell us all about it. A free and full confessio;; wiil
be to your advantage."
Maslova continued to look at the president in silence, and
blushing.
" Tell us how it happened."
"How it happened?" Maslova suddenly began, speakin^^^
quickly. " I came to the lodging-house, and war show u into
the room. He was there, already very drunk." vShe pro-
tionnced the word he with a look of horror in hor v i ie-open
eyes. " 1 wi-rvM to go away, but he would not let mo." She
stopped, as ii havirs^'- lost the thread, or remembered some-
thing else.
" Well, and th..r ' "
"Well, what then? I remained a bit, and went home
agam.
At this moment the public prosecutor raised himself a lit-
tle, leaning on one elbow in an awkward manner.
" You would like to put a question ? " said the president,
and having received an answer in the affirmative, he made
a gesture inviting the public prosecutor to speak.
" I want to ask, was the prisoner previously acquainted
with Simeon Kartinkin ? " said the public prosecutor, with-
'Hit looking at Maslova, and, having put the question, he
compressed his lips and frowned.
The president repeated the question. Maslova stared at
the public prosecutor, with a frightened look.
" With Simeon? Yes," she said.
" I should like to know what the prisoner's acquaintance
with Kartinkin consisted in. Did they meet often ? "
" Consisted in ? ... He invited me for the lodgers ;
it was not an acquaintance at all," answered Maslova,
anxiously moving her eyes from the president to the public
prosecutor and back to the president.
" I should like to know why Kartinkin invited only Mas-
lova, and none of the other girls, for the lodgers? " said the
public prosecutor, with half-closed eyes and a rtr-ning,
Mephistophelian smile.
"I don't know. How should I know?" said Wusiova,
casting a frightened ok round, and fixing Ker -yes for a
moment on Nekhlnc. il. " He asked whom \u 'ik..*.!,"
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ified with
led, ami
ds on th^.
ssioti wiii
ence, and
speakin^^
lown into
vShe pro-
^] le-open
ne." She
•ed sorne-
ent home
iself a lit-
pre-Jdent,
he made
cquainted
tor, with-
estion, he
stared at
[uamtance
J lodgers;
Maslova,
the pubHc
3nly Mas-
" said the
< urming,
Musiova,
:ves for a
xt'Im'!! £°'^'^'^ *''?? '^^ ^^' recognised me?" thought
Nekhludoff, and the blood rushed to his face. But Maslova
turned away without distinguishing him from the others,
and again fixed her eyes anxiously on the public prosecutor
bo the prisoner denies having had any intimate relations
with Kartinkin? Very well, I have no more questions to
And the public prosecutor took his elbow off the desk, and
began writing something. He was not really noting any-
thing down, but only going over the letters of his notes with
a pen, having seen the procureur and leading advocates
after putting a clever question, make a note, with which'
later on, to annihilate their adversaries. '
The president did not continue at once, because he was
consulting the member with the spectacles, whether he was
agreed that the questions (which had all been prepared be-
forehand and written out) should be put.
'[ Well ! What happened next ? " he then went on.
1 came home," looking a little more boldly only at the
president, "and went to bed. Hardly had I fallen asleep
when one of our girls. Bertha, woke me. ' Go, your mer-
chant has come again ! ' He "—she again uttered the word he
with evident horror—" he kept treating our girls, and then
wanted to send for more wine, but his money was all gone
and he sent me to his lodgings and told me where the money
was, and how much to take. So I went."
The president was whispering to the member on his left
but, in order to appear as if he had heard, he repeated her
last words.
'' So you went. Well, what next ? "
'' I went, and did all he told me; went into his room. I
did not go alone, but called Simeon Kartinkin and her " she •
said, pointing to Botchkova.
"That's a lie; I never went in," Botchkova began, but
was stopped.
" In their presence I took out four notes," continued Mas-
lova frowning, without looking at Botchkova.
Yes but did the prisoner notice," again asked the prose-
cutor how much money there was when she was eettine-
out the 40 roubles ? " & s
Maslova shuddered when the prosecutor addressed her •
she did not know why it was, but she felt that he wished her
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11:
*' I did not count it, but only saw some loo-rouble notes."
"Ah! The prisoner saw lOO-rouble notes. That's all?"
" Well, so you brought back the money," continued the
president, looking at the clock.
" I did."
"Well, and then?"
" Then he took me back with him," said Maslova.
"Well, and how did you give him the powder? In his
drink ? "
" How did I give it? I put them in and gave it him."
" Why did you give it him ? "
She did not answer, but sighed deeply and heavily.
" He would not let me go," she said, after a moment's
silence, " and I was quite tired out, and so I went out into
the passage and said to Simeon, ' If he would only let me
go, I am so tired.' And he said, ' We are also sick of him ;
we were thinking of giving him a sleeping draught ; he will
fall asleep, and then you can go.' So I said all right. I
thought they were harmless, and he gave me the packet. I
went in. He was lying behind the partition, and at once
called for brandy. I took a bottle of ' fine champagne ' from
the table, poured out two glasses, one for him and one for
myself, and put the powders into his glass, and gave it him.
Had I known, how could I have given them to him? "
" Well, and how did the ring come into your possession? "
asked the president. " When did he give it you? "
" That was when we came back to his lodgings. I wanted
to go away, and he gave me a knock on the head and broke
my comb. I got angry and said I'd go away, and he took
the ring oflf his finger and gave it to me so that I should
not go," she said.
Then the public prosecutor again slightly raised himself,
and, putting on an air of simplicity, asked permission to put
a few more questions, and, having received it, bending his
head over his embroidered collar, he said : " I should like
to know how long the prisoner remained in the merchant
Smelkoff's room."
Maslova again seemed frightened, and she again looked
anxiously from the public prosecutor to the president, and
said hurriedly :
" I do not remember how long."
" Yes, but does the prisoner remember if she went any-
where else in the lodging-house after she left Smelkoff?"
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•
" Yes, I did go into
Maslova considered for a moment
an empty room next to his."
" Yes, and why did you go in? " asked the public prose-
cutor, forgettmg himself, and addressing her directly
^^ I went m to rest a bit, and to wait for an isvostchik "
not?" ^^^ f^artmkin in the room with the prisoner, or
" He came in."
" Why did he come in ? "
" There was some of the merchant's brandy left, and we
finished it together."
" Oh finished it together. Very well ! And did the pris-
oner talk to Kartinkin, and, if so, what about? "
Maslova suddenly frowned, blushed very red, and said
w';^^^' ,Y^' "^'^^^- ^ ^^^ "°^ t^\^^\hon[ anything;
and that s all I know Do what you like with me; I am not
guilty, and that's all."
"I have nothing more to ask," said the prosecutor, and,
dravying up his shoulders in an unnatural manner, began
writing down as the prisoner's own evidence, in the notes
Kartinkin^^^ '^^ ^^"^ ''^^" '" *^^ ^""P^^ ^°°"^ ^^^^
There was a short silence.
" You have nothing more to say ? "
do'wi ^^^^ ^"'"^ everything," she said, with a sigh, and sat
Then the president noted something down, and, having
listened to something that the member on his left whispered
Inrl T^V. .if""°""f "^ a ten-minutes' interval, rose hurriedly,
from tl!i .1? u'^'a a ^^^ .^^'""^"nication he had received
from the tall, bearded member with the kindly eyes was that
the member, havipg felt a slight stomach derangement
wished to do a little massage and to take some drops^ And
this was why an interval was made.
When the judges had risen, the advocates, the jury, and
the witnesses also rose, with the pleasant feeling that part of
direcUonr'' ^^^ ' ^""^ ^'^^" '"°''^"^ ^" i^^xtnX.
the^wkdfw ^ "^^"^ '"^"^ ^^^ ^"'^'' '"°°"'' ^^^ '^* ^""^^'^ ^^'
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CHAPTER XII.
TWELVE YEARS BEFORE.
'Ill
"Ye3 this was Katusha."
The relations between Nekhludoflf and Katusha had been
the folio tving:
Neicbludoff first saw Katusha when he was a student in
his tl ird year at the University, and was preparing an essay
on land tenure during the summer vacation, which he
passed with his aunts. Until then he had always lived, in
summer, with his mother and sister on his mother's large
estate near Moscow. But that year his sister had married,
and his mother had gone abroad lo a watering-place, and he,
having his essay to write, resolved to spend the summer
with his aunts. It was very quiet in their secluded estate
and there was nothing to distract his mind ; his aunts loved
their nephew and heir very tenderly, and he, too, was fond
of them and of their simple, old-fashioned life.
During that summer on his aunts' estate, ISiekhludofif
passed through that bHssful scate of existence when a young
man for the first time, without guida' ce from any one out-
side, realises all the ' auty -nd sign cance of life, and the
importance of the tat.k allotted in it to man; when he
grasps the possibility of unlimited advance towards per-
fection for one's <=elf and Tor all the worl^, and ,^ives him-
self to this task, not only hopefully, bu with full conviction
of attaining to the perfection he imagines. In that year,
while still at the University, he had ■. u Spencer's Social
Statics, and Spencer's views on hndholding especially im-
pressed him, as he himself wau i 'f t large estates His
father had not been ric'i, but his r .tht lad received 10,000
acres of laud for her dowry. At uiat tn ie he fully reaHsed
all the cruelty and injustice of private property in land, and
being one of those to whom a sacrifice to the demands of
conscience gives the highest spiritual enjoyment, he decided
not to retain property rights, but to give up to the peasant
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labourers the land he had inherited from his father. It was
on this land question he wrote his essay
manner^H^'"^ l''' ''^' °" his aunts' estate in the following
^n r w ^""^''P '''^'■>' ^^''>'' sometimes at three o'clock
and before sunrise went through the inorninjr mists to
bathe in the river, under the hilL He returnel^vvi^ile tie
dew stil lay on the grass and the flowers. Sometimes hav-
ing finished his coffee, he sat down with his b^oks of refer-
ence and his papers to write his essay, but very often, in-
stead of reac ing or writing, he left home again, and vvan-
dered through the fields and the woods. Before d"nner 1^
lay down and slept somewhere in the garden. At dinner he
amused and entertained his aun , with his bright spirits
then he rode on horseback or went for a row on the river'
anu in the evening he again worked at his essay, or sat read-
mg or playing patience with his aunts.
His joy in life was so great that it agitated him, and keot
so that instead of s eeping he wandered about in the garden
till dawn, alone with his dreams and fancies
m. so peacefully and happily, he lived through the first
7ihe huU "^1 Tl^'' ^""*^' t^'^'"^ "° P^'-ticular notice
K^ ^TZl:^f'"''''T''^'' black-eyed, quick-footed
mf ,. ( 7- ' "• V^V' ^^^. °^ "'"eteen, Nekhludoff, brought
up .vider hi mother's wing, was still quite pure If a
woman figu ui his dreams at all it was only as a w f e
Al the other ..omen, who, according to his ideas he could
not marry, were not women for him. but human beings
liu on Ascension Day that summer, a neighbour of his
aunts and her family, consisting of two ounl dat.gh^ers a
schoolboy, and a young artist ,.f peasant or|inwho \t
staying with them, came to spend he day. After^ea iliev
all went to play in the meadow in front of^he house where
the grass had already been mown. They plaved at the lame
of gorelki, and Katusha joined them. Running about and
changing partners several times. NekhludoT^caught Ka^^^
Iked Katusha s looks, but the possibility of any nearer rela-
tions with her had never entered his mind
Impossible to catch those two." said the merry young
artist, whose turn it was to rat'-i^ ^"d ,.,i,,. „„..i,i i...{ ^
fast with his short, muscular \eg'' ^"' ■^""" '" '■'""'"^'
You ! And not catch us ? " said Katusha.
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" One, two, three," and the artist clapped his hands, Ka-
tuslia, hardly restraining her laughter, changed places with
Nekhludoff, hehind the artist's hack, and pressing his large
hand with her little rough one, and rustling with her
starched petticoat, ran f the left. Nekhludofif ran fast to
the right, trying to escape from the artist, but when he
looked round he saw the artist running after Katusha, who
kept well ahead, her firm young legs moving rapidly. There
was a lilac bush in front of them, and Katusha made a sign
with her head to Nekhludoff to join her beiiind it, for if they
once clasped iiands again they were safe from their pursuer,
that being a rule of the game. He understood the sign, and
ran behind the bush, but he did not know that there was a
small ditch overgrown with nettles there. He stumbled and
fell into the nettles, already wet with dew, stinging his
hands, but rose immediately, laughing at his mishap.
Katusha, with her eyes black as sloes, her face radiant
with joy, was flying towards him, and they caught hold of
each other's hands.
" Got stung, I daresay ? " she said, arranging her hair
with her free hand, breathing fast and looking straight up
at him with a glad, pleasant smile.
" I did not know there was a ditch here," he answered,
smiling also, and keeping her hand in his. She drew nearer
to him, and he himself, not knowing how it happened,
stooped towards her. She did not move away, and he
pressed her hand tight and kissed her on the lips.
" There ! You've done it ! " she said ; and, freeing her
hand with a swift movement, ran away from him. Then,
breaking two branches of white lilac from which the blos-
soms were already falling, she began fanning her hot face
with them; then, with her head turned back to him, she
walked away, swaying her arms briskly in front of her, and
joined the other players.
After this there grew up between Nekhludoff and Ka-
tusha those peculiar relations which often exist between a
pure young man and girl who are attracted to each other.
When Katusha came into the room, or even when he saw
her white apron from afar, everything brightened up in
Nekhludoff's eyes, as when the sun appears everything be-
comes more interesting, more joyful, more important. The
whole of life seemed full of gladness. And she felt the
same. But it was not only Katusha's presence that had this
tU^
lids. Ka-
aces with
his large
with lier
m fast to
when he
isha, who
y. There
de a sign
or if they
• pursuer,
sign, and
:;re was a
nbled and
iging his
).
e radiant
it hold of
her hair
raight up
inswercd,
nv nearer
lappened,
, and he
;eing her
1. Then,
the blos-
hot face
him, she
her, and
and Ka-
etween a
1 other,
n he saw
ed up in
thing be-
int. The
felt the
: had this
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>,
himself) to read ihp b T^ (whom he had just read
his au„;"oW 'servam 'Sa 'rin", P'T"""'' '" !'"= ™"' "'
s^tpa^MiiSi^is=i:^?
puckered, and thev felf a Hn,i ^ '""'""^ ""ered. Iheir lips
made them part auiklv Ti^ ^^^'lead of something that
Nekhludoff ^and K^^ Jia JuZVflT'l' T''''''''^ ^''^''^
visit to his aunts' Thy nS i? and t "'"' ?^ ^' ^'''
and even wrote to PHncess Fit. T " ^^^^'"e frightened,
mother. His aunt M^rv t - ^^^novna, Nekhludoff's
would form iTndma^y'^itJTatlishk -Tut f"V^ ^"'^"
groundless, for NekhluLff himse fh ' u '^^ ^^^'' ^^'^
loved Katusha, loved her^'. th^f 1 "^'^ conscious of it,
his safety-hi's' and hers" He not'on^v dId'n'o"tV'r"" ^
sire to possess her, but the very thought of i^fi I T -^"^ *^t
horror. The fears of fhl Z^ ^"""g " of it filled him with
that Dmiri with his hnrT'l P°''''^^ ^°P^'^ Ivanovna,
having fallen Tn'^velih^nSi^^^^^^^^^ t-^^^^-'
fo/^SSS^^?; l^ ^.^^^ His love
on no account join his life with tipt.fo- ?• u ^^ ''^"^^
io;;^ii^rho«£H'' -^"^^^^^^^^
fJi-rf^ -,-,..1-1 1 vNuuiu nave come to the conrliision ^h^*-
^js^siMMya
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mention their fears to him ; and, when he left, he was still
unconscious of his love for Katusha. He was sure that
what he felt for Katusha was only one of the manifestations
of the joy of life that filled his whole being, and that this
sweet, merry little girl shared this joy with him. Yet, when
he was going away, and Katusha stood with his aunts in the
porch, and looked after him, her dark, slightly-squinting
eyes filled with tears, he felt, after all, that he was leaving
something beautiful, precious, something which would
never reoccur. And he grew very sad.
" Good-bye, Katusha," he said, looking across Sophia
Ivanovna's cap as he was getting into the trap. " Thank
you for everything."
" Good-bye, Dmitri Ivanovitch," she said, with her pleas-
ant, tender voice, keeping back the tears that filled her eyes
— and ran away into the hall, where she could cry in peace.
rs
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was still
sure that
festations
that this
{et, when
nts in the
squinting
,s leaving
h would
Sophia
" Thank
ler pleas-
her eyes
n peace.
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CHAPTER XIII.
LIFE IN THE ARMY.
God's world seemed am v.f^r?; I • Tu ^"JP^n^ent. Then
cally and joyfuTly to so^e now''. .v '"^^ f "thusiasti-
clear and simple defined hvT every hmg m life seemed
was leading. Then he hadtl H, conditions of the life he
need of intercourse with nff ^ importance of, and had
lived and hough and fel^hf"' ^l^ ^'^^ *'^°^^ ^^'^o had
poets. What he now ..n -M^^T ^'"^"Philosophers and
were hurnlnsrurn^Tndt^^^^^^^^^^^ T^-^
b^theTerm^^ylhT;^^^^^^^^
of womenf al/woS^en eLept tr. ' "°" *^ P"'-?^^^
ti)e wives of his friends w?! l ^l^'J .°^" ^^"^"^ and
were the best means to w^rH^ "^'7 "^^^"^^^ °"^ -^ ^^"^en
joyment. Then monev was n'f" ^l'^^^^ experienced en-
quire even one"th rd of wh.f ?• "'^''l'^' ^"^ ^^ ^'^ not re-
now this allowanc^of I ,^' o,ll"'°'^''" ^"°^^^ ^''"^ ' but
and he had alreadv hadl^l , f ^ """"^^^ ^^^ "^t suffice,
his mother. ^ '^""^ unpleasant talks about it with
hea'it%tng aS/ThaiVT^";'^ ''• ^^ ^^ -- ^is
And all thi! ?errTbll Vhln ^^'°S'^^d "P^" as himself.
had ceased to bel ve wS and T^/.l^^"^ '^^^^"^^ h^
others. This he had do,^ h ^^"^ ^^^^" ^o believing
iiv« K-i;- • " "°"^ because it wa« fo^ H.-«:p..i. .^
■ ivv. Dcikrvine" on**': coif- k^i- • . — " '■^mcini ro
If" ! "
I 'I
u
U
m ! . ■)
^1 ■:'
; ■ '■!
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life, which is ahvays seeking for easy gratifications, but al-
most in every case against it. Believing others there was
nothing to decide ; everything had been decided already,
and decided always in favour of the animal / and against
the spiritual. Nor was this all. Believing in his own self
he was always exposing himself to the censure of those
around him ; believing others he had their approval. So,
when Nekhludoff had talked of the serious matters of life,
of God, truth, riches, and poverty, all round him thought it
out of place and even rather funny, and his mother and
aunts called him, with kindly irony, notre cher philosophe.
But when he read novels, told improper anecdotes, went to
see funny vaudevilles in the French theatre and gaily re-
peated the jokes, everybody admired ari,d encouraged him.
When he considered it right to limit his needs, wore an old
overcoat, took no wine, everybody thought it strange and
looked upon it as a kind of showing off ; but when he spent
large sums on hunting, or on furnishing a peculiar and
luxurious study for himself, everybody admired his taste
and gave him expensive presents to encourage his hobby.
While he kept pure and meant to remain so till he married
his friends prayed for his health, and even his mother was
not grieved but rather pleased when she found out that he
had become a real man and had gained over some French
woman from his friend. (As to the episode with Katusha,
the princess could not without horror think that he might
possibly have married her.) In the same way, when Nekh-
ludofif came of age, and gave the small estate he had in-
herited from his father to the peasants because he consid-
ered the holding of private property in land wrong, this
step filled his mother and relations with dismay and served
as an excuse for making fun of him to all his relatives. He
was continually told that these peasants, after they had re-
ceived the land, got no richer, but, on the contrary, poorer,
having opened three public-houses and left off doing any
work. But when Nekhludoflf entered the Guards and spent
and gambled away so much with his aristocratic compan-
ions that Elena Ivanovna, his mother, had to draw on her
capital, she was hardly pained, considering it quite natural
and even good that wild oats should be sown at an early
age and in good company, as her son was doing. At first
Nekhludoff struggled, but all that he had considered good
while he had faith in himself was considered bad bv others,
?
s, but al-
there was
I already,
d against
own self
of those
)val. So,
:rs of life,
:hought it
3ther and
hilosophe.
3, went to
gaily re-
iged him.
)re an old
•ange and
I he spent
:uliar and
his taste
lis hobby,
e married
other was
nt that he
le French
Katusha,
he might
len Nekh-
e had in-
le consid-
rong, this
nd served
tives. He
;y had re-
y. poorer,
doing any
and spent
; compan-
iw on her
te natural
t an early
. At first
ered good
by others,
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and what he had considered evil was looked upon as eood
by those among whom he lived, and the struggle grew too
hard. And at last Nekhludoff gave in. i.e., leff off believing
himself and began believmg others. At first this givini
up of faith in himself was unpleasant, but it did not loni
continue to be so. At that time he acquired the habit of
smoking and drinking wine, and soon got over this un-
pleasant feeling and even felt great relief.
Nekhludofif, with his passionate nature, gave himself
thoroughly to the new way of life so approved of by a
those around, and he entirely stifled the inner voice which
demanded something different. This began after he
moved to St. Petersburg, and reached its highest poin?
when he entered the army. ^ '
. Military life in general depraves men; It places them
in conditions of complete idleness, i.e., absence of all useful
7Z^ ' u' *'''"", °^ ^^^'' "°"^"^°" ^""^a" ^"ties, which it
replaces by merely conventional ones to the honour of the
regiment, the uniform, the flag; and, while giving them on
the one hand absolute power over other men, a o piUs
r^nl? .'r° T^'^'T °^ '''■^^•^ obedience to those of highe?
rank than themselves. "'e,"cr
service w^T'j/cV^^ "'"^^ depraving influence of military
service with its honours, uniforms, flags, its permitted vio-
lence and murder, there is added the depraving influence
of riches and nearness to and intercourse with members of
the Imperial family as is the case in the choseTregfrnen
of the Guards in which all the officers are rich and of S)od
amily, then this depraving influence creates n the men
who succumb to it a perfect mania of selfishness And
this mama of selfishness attacked Nekhludoff fnTm the mo
ment he entered the army and began living in U^ way 7ik
companions lived. He had no occupation Whatever except
X7;Zirand""'-ff '^"'^'^^""'^ ^"^1 -^" '--^-I'y
otner peop e and, with arms also made and cleaned ind
handed to him by others, ride to reviews on a fine horse
wh,cMiad been bred, broken in and fed by others There
M itJ, other men like himself, he had to wave a sword shooi
off guns, and teach others to do the same. He had no
'l e^Ts^td "tho'" highlyrplaced persons, young^nd oh!
me isai and those near hmi no*- orK- cTn-f;, i i ■
cupation but praised ami tharlked inm (or It ' '" '''^■
After th.s was done, it was tliought important to eat. and
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particularly to drink, in officers' clubs or the salons of the
best restaurants, squandering large sums of money, which
came from some invisible source; then theatres, ballets
women, then agam riding on horseback, waving of swords
and shootmg, and again the squandering of money the
wme, cards, and women. This kind of life acts on military
men even more depravingly than on others, because if any
other than a rnihtary man lead such a life he cannot help
bemg ashamed of it in the depth of his heart. A mi'itarv
man is, on the contrary, proud of a life of this kind, espe-
cially at war time, and Nekhliidofif had entered the army
just after war with the Turks had been declared " We are
prepared to sacrifice our lives at the wars, and therefore a
gay, reckless life is not only pardonable, but absolutely nec-
essary for us, and so we lead it."
Such were Nekhludofif's confused thoughts at this period
of his existence, and he felt all the time the delight of being
free of the moral barriers he had formerly set himself. And
iess '" ^^^ *^^^ °^ ^ chronic mania of selfish-
He was in this state when, after three years' absence he
came again to visit his aunts. '
1 ''1:^.
alons of the
3ney, which
res, ballets,
g of swords
money, the
on military
:ause if any
:annot help
A military
kind, espe-
i the army
. " We are
therefore a
alutely nec-
this period
ht of being
nself. And
I of selfish-
ibsence, he
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE SECOND MEETING WITH MASLOVA.
^^^""^^^"^^^^^^^ their estate
ment, which had gone orwarH uf'^'' ^^J°'" ^'^ ^^gi"
warmly asked him to come InH ^^"''t/^">^ ^^^ vely
wanted to see Katii L ^eH^aos in'Sf 'f^ \^^^"«^ ^e
ready formed those evil desSnsfJfn .1^^'^'} ^^ ^^^ al-
now uncontrolled animal seKcf^f'i ^atusha which his
not acknowledge thi as h inSn "^h^ ^^"1' '^"^ ^^ ^'d
go back to the spot where he Sh' "* °I!'>^ ^^^^^^ to
his rather funny,"^ but dear kinHf. T.'^'.^^PP^^' to see
always, without his noticL ^{"t^"'^"^. 3^^ ^""ts, who
atmosphere of love and admiration anTf^ ^^"^ ^'^^ ^"
tusha, of whom he had retah^ed so AiL""^ ^? '^' '^^^^ Ka-
He arrived at the end of ^1 u ^^^'^"^ ^ memory,
the thaw haa set in l' wL pouH'nS" Good Fridayf after
had not a dry thread on h7m aS5 was^frf '^'^ '° '^'^' ^^
yet vigorous and f Jl of soirits p.^f ^^"^'"^/^ry cold, but
she still with them?'' heKiht iT^^'*^^*^'"^^- " !«
miliar, old-fashioned courtv3 ' ^'^^^-ove into the fa-
wall, and now filledUtS^^'oH^rrol' '^' ' ^°" '^"^^
sielVbr^utst^dtoVr r ?" ^^^ heard the
pails and tucked-up skirts who ? ^^'"^-/poted women w th
bing the floors, came out ofTll df ^''''^""*'>^ been scrub-
the front door eitW at? on Iv T'li?'"'''- , ^^^ ^'^^ "^t at
with his apron on, eviden'v aL hn °"', '^' "^^"-servant.
into the front porch. Hi"Vu,7 tnV ^t''^^^"'^^' ^^"'«^ out
him in the anteroom ;^; S V^S^lI^""°^"^^'°"« "^et
her head. Both aunts f -od fu'en t^t'' °? ^"^ ^ ^^P «"
eeived communion. *° ^^"'"^h and had re-
novnYl'/c$'! ,'1."'S? of you to come." s.;^ Q.,t„-_ r_ ,
we haWK/ift^^^^-y^s not well, got ti^d ii^Xu^H
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"I congratulate you, Aunt Sophia,"* said Nekhludoff,
kissing Sophia Ivanovna's hand. " Oh, I beg your pardon
I have made you wet." '
" Go to your room— why you are soaking wet. Dear
me, you have got moustaches ! . . . Katusha !
Katusha ! Get him some coffee ; be quick."
" Directly," came the sound of a well-known, pleasant
voice from the passage, and Nekhludoff's heart cried out
She s here!" and it was as if the sun had come out from
behind the clouds.
Nekhludoff, followed by Tikhon, went gaily to his old
room to change his things. He felt inclined to ask Tikhon
about Katusha ; how she was, what she was doing, was she
not going to be married? But Tikhon was so respectiul
and at the same time so severe, insisted so firmly on pour-
ing the water out of the jug for him, that Nekhludoff could
not make up his mind to ask him about Katusha, but only
inquired about Tikhon's grandsons, about the old so-called
brother's" horse, and about the dog Polkan. All were
alive except Polkan, who had gone mad the summer before.
When he had taken off all his wet things and just begun
to dress again, Nekhludoff heard quick, familiar footsteps
and a knock at the door. Nekhludoff knew the steps and
also the knock. No one but she walked and knocked like
that.
Having thrown his wet greatcoat over his shoulders, he
opened the door.
Cx>me in." It was she, Katusha, the same, only sweeter
than before. The slightly squinting naive black eyes looked
up in the same old way. Now as then, she had on a white
apron. She brought him from his aunts a piece of scented
soap, with the wrapper just taken off, and two towels— one
a long Russian embroidered one, the other a bath towel.
The unused soap with the stamped inscription, the towels,
and her own self, all were equally clean, fresh, undefiled and
pleasant. The irrepressible smile of joy at the sight of him
made the sweet, firm lips pucker up as of old.
How do you do, Dmitri Ivanovitch ? " she uttered with
difficulty, her face suffused with a rosy blush.
" Good-morning! How do you do? " he said, also I Push-
ing. " Alive and well ? "
♦It is usual in Russia to congratulate those who have rec'^ed
communion.
Nekhludoflf,
^our pardon,
wet. Dear
Katusha !
,vn, pleasant
rt cried out
ne out from
f to his old
ask Tikhon
ing, was she
respectiul
dy on pourr
iiidoff could
!ia, but only
)ld so-called
:. All were
imer before.
1 just begun
ar footsteps
e steps and
nocked like
loulders, he
•nly sweeter
eyes looked
on a white
; of scented
owels — one
bath towel,
the towels,
idefiled and
ight of him
ittered with
also 1 !ush-
ave receiyed
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/* Yes, the Lord be thanked a«^ i, •
pink soap and towels fronfyour aun?.''' 't ^^^l^J^^omite
the soap on the table and han^W fh« !' '^ ^^'^' P^^ing
, of a cliair. nangmg the towels over the back
viZ'ftaSpTnSj'^ai'r:'??''' '^''^"°"' defending .he
dressing case filled wfthbrush^n"^, '° Nekliludoff's open
™a„3;^bo«,es with s^^^S't^'L^'Tt^^l^'^iS^^
hereJ'tiS N^Sk.-'J^r^,, O^j.-'ow ^'^^ ^ - to be
derness as of old. "" ""'"^ »'"i light and ten-
Th'e aun'ts!^^ i'ad'Sr '? '""r "°^''». ^"d went out
|;;m this .i„e ™o?et™7i5fa °:vt%™.t'-°'f' "''-""d
ihe war, where he mi^hf hi? J Dmitri was goin^ to
torched the old auntT.^ ' ^' ^■°""^^d °^ J<i"ed, fnd this
witht^lttt a\Th!rdf ^ °T?'>^^ '^y -^ night
sty over Easter whh them and te!" ^^'l'^.^ ^^ ^^^^^d to
Schonbock, whom he was n h. t^'5§^''?Phed to his friend
should come and meJt him ^t hTs\Ss-^ that Se
As soon as he haH .^ t^ . ^""^s instead.
ings toward her awotagl^'U"^^^. ^^^khludoff's old feel-
f.ee her white apron vvitK' i^^S''^'■'"'''^^th^n' he could not
hsten to her steps, her vo ^e^he if 'If^'"^^ ^°"ld not
of joy ; he could not look a h;r eve H? t ""' ?"^ ^ ^""''"^
a feeling of tenderness esnerL^r' u^^'' ^' ^'^^s, without
fbo^^ all, he could S See ^,h!;^f '^^ ^"^^'^d' and
hlushed when they met He fe I h "^ ^^.'^^^'^" how she
as before, when this love was a kind o^' ^" ^°^^' l^"* "ot
he would not own, even to himslTf 1°1 T^^^^^' ^o him and
he was persuaded that one couwSo'' '^'r^^^"^' ^"^ ^hen
knew he was in love andWa^i?. ? °"^>^ ^"^^5 "ow he
what this love consisted of Jl u '^' ^"^ '^"ew dimly
tho"gh he sought to rnn. f -"^ '""^^^ it '"ight lead to
^^^ekliludoff, as ff every maT the/''" ^^^"^ ^i"^«elf f„'
the spiritual, seeking on ir^h^/^Vf'",^ *^o heings: one
^If which should tfnd toward. .^"^ ?^ ^'PP'"^^« for h?m!
other, the animal man Zl\t '^% '^^PPi"ess of all : the
""ritn^ri^s-'ii^^e^^^^^^^^^^
on W ,.. in PetSurg- ^■7„X"a4;fe„trri|
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■H
ruled supreme and completely crushed the spiritual man in
him.
But when he saw Katusha and experienced the same feel-
ings a/, he had had three years before, the spiritual man in
him raised its head once more and began to assert its
rights. And up to Easter, during two whole days, an un-
conscious, ceaseless inner struggle went on in him.
He knew in the depths of his soul that he ought to go
away, that there was no real reason for staying on with his
aunts, knew that no good could come of it ; and yet it was
so pleasant, so delightful, that he did not honestly acknowl-
edge the facts to himself and stayed on. On Easter eve,
the priest and the deacon who came to the house to say
mass had had (so they said) the greatest difficulty in get-
ting over the three miles that lay between the church and
the old ladies' house, coming across the puddles and the
bare earth in a sledge.
Nekhludoflf attended the mass with his aunts and the ser-
vants, and kept looking at Katusha, who was near the door
and brought in the censers for the priests. Then having
given the priests and his aunts the Easter kiss, though it
was not midnight and therefore not Easter yet, he was al-
ready going to bed when he heard the old servant Matrona
Pavlovna preparing to go to the church to get the koiditch
and pdski* blest after the midnight service. " I shall so
too," he thought.
The road to the church was impassable either in a sledge
or on wheels, so Nekhludoflf, who behaved in his aunts'
house just as he did at home, ordered the old horse, " the
brother's horse," to be saddled, and instead of going to bed
he put on his gay uniform, a pair of tight-fitting riding
breeches and his overcoat, and got on the old over-fed and
heavy horse, which neighed continually all the way as he
rode in the dark through the puddles and snow to the
church.
* Easter cakes. •
1 I
tual man in
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S7
le same feel-
itual man in
assert its
[ays, an un-
im.
)ught to go
on with his
d yet it was
:ly acknowl-
Easter eve,
ouse to say
ulty in get-
church and
les and the
and the ser-
!ar the door
hen having
), though it
, he was al-
nt Matrona
the koulitch
* I shall go
in a sledge
1 his aunts'
horse, " the
oing to bed
ting riding
ver-fed and
way as he
low to the
CHAPTER XV.
THE EARLY MASS.
onf ""of l^^u^'^f '^'' ^^'^y "^^^^ remained for ever after
issue
con.a,„,„g the icon flittered, i,l/J„''aTe7o'n J^SVt!^
.__^ U„g s,r,ps of linen are worn by the peasant, instead of stock-
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candles ornamented with golden spirals. The candelabra
was filled with tapers, and from the choir sounded most
merry tunes sung by amateur choristers, Avith biMowing
bass and shrill boys' voices among them.
Nekhludoff passed up to the front. In the middle of the
church stood the aristocracy of the place : a landed proprie-
tor, with his wife and son (the latter dressed in a sailor's
suit), the police officer, the telegraph clerk, a tradesman in
top-boots, and the village elder, with a medal on his breast ;
and to the right of the amho, just behind the landed pro-
prietor's wife, stood Matrona Pavlovna in a lilac dress and
fnnged shawl and Katuslip. in a white dress with a tucked
bodice, blue sash, and red bow in her black hair.
Everything seemed festive, solemn, bright, and beauti-
ful : the priest in his silver cloth vestments with gold
crosses; the deacon, the clerk and chanter in their silver
and gold surplices; the amateur choristers in their best
clothes, with their well-oiled hair; the merry tunes of the
holiday hymns that sounded like dance music; and the
continual blesr ;>/^; of the people by the priests, who held
candles decorared vith flowers, and repeated the cry of
" Christ is rib.-i; \ " " Christ is risen ! " All was beautiful ;
but, above all. Katusha, in her white dress, blue sash, and
the red bow on lie:- black head, her eyes beaming with rap-
ture. ^
Nekhludofif knew that she felt his presence without look-
ing at him. He noticed this as he passed her, walking up
to the altar. He had nothing to tell her, but he invented
something to say and whispered as he passed her : " Aunt
told me that she would break her fast after the late mass."
The young blood rushed up to Katusha's sweet face, as it
always did when she looked at him. The black eyes, laugh-
1"t^. ?^? /"I^ °^ J°y' ^^^^^ naively up and remained fixed on
Nekhludoff.
" I kriow," she said, with a smile.
At this .moment the clerk was going out with a copper
coffee-pot* of holy water in his hand, and, not noticing
Katusha, brushed her with his surplice. Evidently he
brushed against Katusha through wishing to pass Nekhlu-
doff at a respectful 'Hstance, and Nekhludoff was surprised
that he, the clerk, did not understand that everything here
yes, and in all the world, only existed for Katusha, and that
* Coffee-pots are often used for holding holy water in Russia.
e
c
r
!
c
:•
h
1
y
h
w
t\
fa
SI
N
hi
he
I
ca
1
eh
im
candelabra
inded most
, bcMowing
ddle of the
ed proprie-
1 a sailor's
idesman in
his breast ;
anded pro-
: dress and
h a tucked
nd beaiiti-
with gold
:heir silver
their best
ines of the
:; and the
who held
the cry of
beautiful ;
sash, and
f with rap-
hout look-
/alking up
e invented
tr: "Aunt
te tnass."
face, as it
^es, laugh-
d fixed on
a copper
t noticing
idently he
s Nekhlu-
surprised
hing here,
, and that
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59
round the <f «« for ter^n , ii„ '•"• ,'?" .">« «°W glittered
can<llesticks were L X for T '" """"^^^^^'^ ™<1
hy,n„s, •• BohoW th^Passover o7,he"Lr-?.'p'='-' '"''^
the tucked white dress the «r»i' " "'"""' ^S'"^-
face, by which he knew fl,„ i?=f ' '°^T PP' '" °' l'^''
singing ,„ his";^„'^S ^Z;S^ ^'^ '"=" »-
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joy, kissed him three times. And while she was doing this
her eyes met Nekhludoff's with a look as if she were asking,
'* Is this that I am doing right?" "Yes, dear, yes, it is
right ; everything is right, everything is beautiful. I love !"
They came down the steps of the porch, and he came up
to them.
He did not mean to give them the Easter kiss, but only
to be nearer to her. Matrona Pavlovna bovv^ed her head,
and said with a smile, " Christ is risen ! " and her tone im-
plied, " To-day we are all equal." She wiped her mouth
with her handkerchief rolled into a ball and stretched her
lips towards him.
" He is, indeed," answered Nekhludoflf, kissing her.
Then he looked at Katusha ; she blushed, and drew nearer.
" Christ is risen, Dmitri Ivanovitch." He is risen, in-
deed," answered Nekhludofif, and they kissed twice,
then paused as if considering whether a third kiss were
necessary, and, having decided that it was, kissed a third
time and smiled.
" You are going to the priests ?" asked Nekhludofif.
" No, we shall sit out here a bit, Dmitri Ivanovitch." said
Katusha with effort, as if she had accomplished some joy-
ous task, and, her whole chest heaving with a deep sigh,
she looked straight in his face with a look of devotion, vir-
gin purity, and love, in her very slightly squinting eyes.
In the love between a man and a woman there always
comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith — a
moment when it is unconscious, unreasoning, and with
nothing sensual about it. Such a moment had come for
Nekhludoff on that Easter eve. When he brought Ka-
tusha back to his mind, now, this moment veiled all else ;
the smooth glossy black head, the white tucked dress
closely fitting her graceful maidenly form, her, as yet, un-
developed bosom, the blushing cheeks, the tender shining
black eyes with their slight squint heightened by the sleep-
less night, and her whole being stamped with those two
marked features, purity and chaste love, love not only for
him (he knew that), but for everybody and everything, not
for the good alone, but for all that is in the world, even
for that beggar whom she had kissed.
He knew she had that love in her because on that night
and morning he was conscious of it in himself, and con-
scious that in this love he became one with her. Ah ! if it
I
s doing this
ere asking,
r, ves, it is
1. "I love!"
lie came up
>s, but only
1 her head,
er tone im-
her mouth
retched her
issing her.
Irevv nearer,
risen, in-
sed twice,
I kiss were
sed a third
iludoflf.
vitch," said
I some joy-
deep sigh,
ivotion, vir-
ig eyes,
lere always
s zenith — a
, and with
d come for
rought Ka-
ed all else;
eked dress
as yet, un-
der shining
y the sleep-
i those two
lot only for
■ything, not
world, even
1 that night
If. and con-
r. Ah ! if it
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'• Yef afr?f.f /^'"''m'S'^^^'-I^^'"^ ^' '^^^ '•^^cl^ed that night
the jurvmen's room ^ "' "' ^'' '"' ^>' '^'^ ^^'"^^^v' oi
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CHAPTER XVI.
THE FIRST STEP,
I >
Wpien he returned from church Nekhludoff broke the
fast with his aunts and took a glass of spirits and some wine
having got into that habit while with his regiment, and
when he reached his room fell asleep at once, dressed as he
was. He was awakened by a knock at the door. He knew
It was her knock, and got up, rubbing his eye? and stretch-
ing himself.
" Katusha, is it you? Come in," said he.
She opened the door.
" Dinner is ready," she said. She still had on the same
white dress, but not the bow in her hair. She looked at
him with a smile, as if she had communicated some very
good news to him.
" I am coming," he answered, as he rose, taking his
comb to arrange his hair.
She stood still for a minute, and ^ noticing it, threw
down his comb and made a step ta s. her, but at that
very moment she turned suddenly anci went with quick
light steps along the strip of carpet in .he middle of the
passage.
u ^iP^^I. ,T' '^^^^ ^ ^°°' ^ ^"^•" thought Nekhludoff.
Why did I not stop her?" What he wanted her for he did
not know himself, but he felt that when she came into his
room something should have been done, something that is
generally done on such occasions, and that he had left it
undone.
" Katusha, wait," he said.
" What do you want ? " she said, stopping.
Nothing, only " and, with an effort, remembering
how men in his position generally behave, he put his arm
round her waist.
She stood still and looked into his eyes.
" Don't, Dmitri Ivanovitch. you must not," she said,
blushing to tears and pushing away his arm with her strong
;
;
II,
off broke the
tid some wine,
egiment, and
dressed as he
or. He knew
s and stretch-
on the same
>he looked at
id some very
e, taking his
:ing it, threw
r, but at that
t with quick
niddle of the
Nekhludoff.
!ier for he did
came into his
Jthing that is
le had left it
remembering
put his arm
," she said,
th her strong
u
,-'!
l\\
if
I
f
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63
caused bv the S feeh„i "^^ 1 ?"^"^'7", ^"^ ,.^'^^'"^ ^vere
free; but" he thot^l t was n K V ^"?^"^'"g to be set
ougl,t to behave as evrv one se did '&"•''" "V^ '!"'' '^^
and kissed her on the neck ^ ''^"^'^^ '''^'' "P
rs!.'" "■= ^""^^">-''' This .tTd™,;^;^ ^t: i';?
there. Everything- seemJ?!.^ neighbour were already
ludoff a storm w^s raltal H ''"^, °'''''"='/>'' ■"" '" Nekh-
was being 5aTandlave^vr^„^^'"''"'•°°'' il""""^ "' "l«"
Katusha.She ^ounfrf, n^„^3"?"^£ thinking only of
"ack the thrill of that l»«t tL ^^ L '"' Passage brought
ing else. When she came tl^^ ""." """'' °' ""'l'"
ini round.Tdt her presence vi,h™T "■"'*»"' 'ook-
.0 force himself no7to1ooka; her "*°'' ''''"^ =""<• ■'^<'
long ttL'waTeS un'an^'dn"^"' '"'° '"= ''^''™"' »nd for a
to evsry so* nd in f he h„ " ,'" ^'^^ f^'tdtement, listening
I The anLal ma,^ in,Yd hta h,"? "''^'''"^ ',° ''^^^ ^er steps®
but had succeeded^ traZSn„°7 "f ?'?■ ''""='' "^ head,
of tlie days of Ws first yiStanfl.v'' ??l "" 'P'"'™' ">»"
That dreadful animaf m™f ^fo^nl ^ow ^ulToZ"]^"'''"-
malSg t teTLra'Sf t,^ "" ="> ^X he'^ould not
evade him. TrthrevemW hnJl' "''\P'-°bably trying to
into the room next to hs ''^."'"."•/he was obliged to go
«ay the night, and she had.o male'w "bed W?™ ^l^'' \
[her ffo in Nekhlndnff fr^Ur. 1"'^'^^ "'^ oed. When he heard
ing his brfa* as nt wreln;'/'''=='*"S.^oftly and hold-
Shp urac r^„f^• , 8^o'"g to commit a cr me
k S"wo" f^ "co'^rn'ertfvitr ir '^^^^ °" •'> Pi"ow" holding
She turned round Td sm ' nn.^V"''''' '■''" Pi"ow-case
•^^orc, but in a rrig^n^e'Sl'pLr, wlr^rstleTeLl
r'
!l
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to tell him that what he was doing was wrong. He stopped
for a moment. There was still the possibility of a struggle.
The voice of his real love for her, though feebly, was still
speaking of her, her feelings, her life. Another voice was
saying, " Take care ! don't let the opportunity for your own
happiness, your own enjoyment, slip by ! " And this second
voice completely stifled the first. He went up to her with
determination, and a terrible, ungovernable animal passion
took possession of him.
With his arm round he made her sit down on the bed;
and feeling that there was something more to be done he
sat down beside her.
"Dmitri Ivanovitch, dear! please let me go," she said,
with a piteous voice. " Matrona Pavlovna is coming," she
cried, tearing herself away. Some one was really coming
to the door.
" Well, then, I'll come to you in the night," he whispered.
" You'll be alone ? "
"What are you thinking of? On no account. No, no!"
she said, but only with her lips ; the tremulous confusion of
her whole being said something very different.
It was Matrona Pavlovna who had come to the door. She
came in with a blanket over her arm, looked reproachfully
at Nekhludofif, and began scolding Katusha for having
taken the wrong blanket.
Nekhludoff went out in silence, but he did not even feel
ashamed. He could see by Matrona Pavlovna's face that
she was blaming him, he knew that she was blaming him
with reason and felt that he was doing wrong, but this
novel, low animal excitement, having freed itself of all the
old feelings of real love for Katusha, ruled supreme, leaving
room for nothing else.
He went about as if demented all the evening, now into
his aunts', then back into his own room, then out into the
porch, thinking all the time how he could meet her alone ;
but she avoided him, and Matrona Pavlovna watched her
closely.
I
ig. He stopped
ty of a struggle,
feebly, was still
other voice was
ty for your own
^nd this second
up to her with
animal passion
vvn on the bed ;
s to be done he
; go," she said,
is coming," she
IS really coming
:," he whispered.
ount. No, no! "
ous confusion of
ent.
:o the door. She
ed reproachfully
sha for having
lid not even feel
lovna's face that
^as blaming him
wrong, but this
\ itself of all the
supreme, leaving
^rening, now into
:hen out into the
meet her alone;
vna watched her
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CHAPTER XVH.
NEKHLUDOFF AND KATUSHA,
And so the evening passed and night came. The doctor
went to bed. Nekhludoff's aunts had also retired, and he
knew that Matrona Pavlovna was now with them in their
bedroom so that Katiisha was sure to be alone in the maids'
sitting-room. He again went out into the porch. It was
dark, damp and warm out of doors, and that white sprmg
mist which drives away the last snow, or is diffused by the
thawing of the last snow, filled the air. From the river
under the hill, about a hundred steps from the front door,
came a strange sound. It was the ice breaking. Nekhludoff
came down the steps and went up to the window of the
maids' room, stepping over the puddles on the bits of glazed
snow. His heart was beating so fiercelv in his breast that he
seemed to hear it, his laboured breath came and went in a
burst of long-drawn sighs. In the maids' room a small
lamp was burning, and Katusha sat alone bv the table, look-
ing thoughtfully m front of her. Nekhludoff stood a long
time without moving and waited to see what she, not know-
ing that she was observed, would do. For a minut ^- two
she did not move; then she lifted her eves, smiled and hook
her head as if chiding herself, then changed her pose and
dropped both her arms on the table and again began gazing
dcAvn in front of her. He stood and looked at her, involun-
tarily listening to the beating of his own heart and the
strange sounds from the river. There on the river, beneath
the white mist, the unceasing labour went on, and sounds
as of something sobbing, cracking, dropping, being shat-
tered to pieces mixed with the tinkling of the thin bits of
ice as they broke against each other like glass.
There he stood, looking at Katusha's serious, suffering
face, which betrayed the inner struggle of her soul, and he
felt pity for her; but, strange though it may seem, this pity
only confirmed him in his evil intention.
He knocked at the window. She started as if she had re-
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II
ceived an electric shock, her whole body trembled, and a look
of horror came into her face. Then she jumped up, ap-
proached the window and brought her face up to the pane.
The look of terror did not leave her face even when, holding
her hands up to her eyes like blinkers and peering through
the glass, she recognised him. Her face was unusually
grave ; he had never seen it so before. She returned his
smile, but only in submission to him ; there was no smile in
her soul, only fear. He beckoned her with his hand to come
out into the yard to him. But she shook her head and re-
mained by the window. He brought his face close to the
pane and was going to call out to her, but at that moment
she turned to the door ; evidently some one inside had called
her. Nekhludoflf moved away from the window. The fog
was so dense that five steps from the house the windows
could not be seen, but the light from the lamp shone red and
huge out of a shapeless black mass. And on the river the
same strange sounds went on, sobbing and rustling and
cracking and tinkling. Somewhere in the fog, not far oflf,
a cock crowed ; another answered, and then others, far in the
village, took up the cry till the sound of the crowing blended
into one, while all around was silent excepting the river. It
was the second time the cocks crowed that night.
Nekhludoflf walked up and down behind the corner of
the house, and once or twice got into a puddle. Then he
again came up to the window. The lamp was still burning,
and she was again sitting alone by the table as if uncertain
what to do. He had hardly approached the window when
she looked up. He knocked. Without looking who it was
she at once ran out of the room, and he heard the outside
door open with a snap. He waited for her near the side
porch and put his arms round her without saying a word.
She clung to him, put up her face, and met his kiss with her
lips. Then the door again gave the same sort of snap and
opened, and the voice of Matrona Pavlovna called out
angrily, " Katusha ! "
She tore herself away from him and returned into the
maids' room. He heard the latch click, and then all was
quiet. The red light disappeared and only the mist remained,
and the bustle on the river went on. NekhludofT went up to
the window, nobody was to be seen ; he knocked, but got no
answer. He went back into the house by the front door, but
could not sleep. He got up and went with bare feet along
jd, and a look
-nped up, ap-
) to the pane.
,vlien, holding
.'ring through
as unusually
returned his
IS no smile in
hand to come
head and re-
; close to the
that moment
ide had called
DW. The fog
the windows
shone red and
the river the
rustling and
% not far off,
ers, far in the
wing blended
the river. It
ht.
he corner of
lie. Then he
still burning,
s if uncertain
vindow when
g who it was
d the outside
near the side
ying a word,
kiss with her
of snap and
I called out
•ned into the
then all was
list remained,
flf went up to
d, but got no
ont door, but
re feet along
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the passage to her door, next Matrona Pavlovna's room. He
heard Matrona Pavlovna snoring quietly, and was about to
go on when she coughed and turned on her creaking bed,
and his heart fell, and he stood inmiovablc for about tive
minutes. When all was quiet and she began to snore peace-
fully again, he went on, trying to step on the boards that
did not creak, and came to Katusha's door. There was no
sound to be heard. She was probably awake, or else he
would have heard her breathing. But as soon as he had whis-
pered " Katusha " she jumped up and began to persuade him,
as if angrily, to go away.
" Open ! Let me in just for a moment ! I implore you ! "
He hardly knew what he was saying.
*******
When she left him, trembling and silent, giving no answer
to his M'ords, he again went out into the norch and stood try-
ing to understand the meaning of what had happened.
It was getting lighter. From the river below the creaking
and tinkling and sobbing of the breaking ice came still louder
and a gurgling sound could now also be heard. The mist
had begun to sink, and from above it the waning moon
dimly lighted up something black and weird.
" What was the meaning of it all ? Was it a great joy or a
great misfortune that had befallen him?" he asked himself.
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CHAPTER XVITI.
AFTERWARDS.
The next day the gay, handsome, and brilliant Schonbock
joined Xekliludoff at his aunts' house, and quite won their
hearts by his refined and amiable manner, his high spirits,
his generosity, and his affection for Dmitri.
But though the old ladies admired his generosity it rather
perplexed them, for it seemed exaggerated. He gave a
rouble to some blind beggars who came to the gate, gave 15
roubles in tips to the servants, and when Sophia Ivanovna's
pet dog hurt his paw and it bled, he tore his hemstitched
cambric handkerchief into strips (Sophia Ivanovna knew
that such handkerchiefs cost at least 15 roubles a dozen) and
bandaged the dog's foot. The old ladies had never met
people of this kind, and did not know that Schonbock owed
200,000 roubles which he was never going to pay, and that
therefore 25 roubles more or less did not matter a bit to him.
Schonbock stayed only one day, and he and Nekhludoff both
left at night. They could not stay away from their regiment
any longer, for their leave was fully up.
At the stage which Nekhludoff's selfish mania had now
reached he could think of nothing but himself. He was won-
dering whether his conduct, if found out, would be blamed
much or at all, but he did not consider what Katusha was
now going through, and what was going to happen to her.
He saw that Schonbock guessed his relations to her and
this flattered his vanity.
" Ah, I see how it is you have taken suclf a sudden fancy
to your aunts that you have been living nearly a week with
them," Schonbock remarked when he had seen Katusha.
" Well, I don't wonder — should have done the same. She's
charming." Nekhludoff was also thinking that though it
was a pity to go away before having fully gratified the crav-
ings of his love for her, yet the absolute necessity of parting
had its advantages because it put a sudden stop to relations
it would have been very difficult for him to continue. Then
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69
nt Schonbock
lite won their
, high spirits,
Dsity it rather
He gave a
gate, gave 15
ia Ivanovna's
5 hemstitched
inovna knew
a dozen) and
id never met
lonbock owed
pay, and that
r a bit to him.
khludoff both
heir regiment
nia had now
He was won-
jld be blamed
Katusha was
Dpen to her.
ns to her and
sudden fancy
r a week with
een Katusha.
: same. She's
hat though it
ified the crav-
;ity of parting
)p to relations
ntinue. Then
Ik- thought that he ought to give her some money, not for
her. not because siie might need it, but because it was the
thing to do.
So he gave her what seemed to him a liberal amount, con-
sidering his and her station. On the day of his departure,
after duiiier, he went out and waited for "her at the side en-
trance. .She flushed up when she saw him and wished to
pass by, directing his attention to tlie open door of the maids'
room by a look, but he stopped her.
" I have come to say good-bye." he .said, crumpling in his
hand an envelope with a lOO-rouble note inside. " There,
She gues.sed what he meant, knit her brows, and shaking
her head pushed liis hand away.
" Take it; oh, you must! " he stammered, and thrust the
envelope into the bib of her apron and ran back to his room,
groaning and frowning as if he had hurt himself. And for
a long time he went up and down writhing as in pain, and
even stamping and groaning aloud as he thought of this
last scene. " But what else could I have done? Is it not
what happens to every one? And if everv one does the
same . . . well I suppose it can't be helped." In this
vyay he tried to get peace of mind, but in vain. The recollec-
tion of what had passed burned his conscience. In his soul—
in the very depths of his soul— he knew that he had acted in
a base, cruel, cowardly manner, and thai the knowledge of
this act of his must prevent him, not only from finding fault
with any one else, but even from looking straight into ot'.ie.-
people's eyes; not to mention the impossibility of considering
hmiself a splendid, noble, high-minded fellow, as he did and
had to do to go on living his life boldlv and merrily. There
was only one solution of the problem— /.r, not to thmk
about it. He succeeded in doing so. The life he was now
entermg upon, the new surroundings, new friends, the war,
all helped hm to forget. And the longer he lived, the less he
thought abo'it it, until at last he forgot it completely.
Once only, when, after the war, he went to see his aunts
in hopes of meeting Katusha, and heard that soon after his
last visit she had left, and that his aunts had heard she had
been confined somewhere or other and had gone quite to the
bad, his heart ached. According to the time of her confine-
ment, the child might or might not have been his. I lis aunts
said she had gone wrong, that she had inherited her mother's
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depraved nature, and he was pleased to hear this opinion of
his aunts'. It seemed to acquit him. At first he thought of
trying to find her and her child, but then, just because in the
depths of his soul he felt so ashamed and pained when think-
ing about her, he did not make the necessary effort to find
her, but tried to forget his sin again and ceased to think
about it. And now this strange coincidence brought it all
back to his memory, and demanded from him the acknowl-
edgment of the heartless, cruel cowardice which had made it
possible for him to live these nine years with such a sin on
his conscience. But he was still far from such an acknowl-
edgment, and his only fear was that everything might now
be found out, and that she or her advocate might recount it
all and put him tc shame before every one present.
Resurrection
ipinion of
lought of
use in the
len think-
rt to find
to think
ight it all
acknowl-
,d made it
1 a sin on
acknowl-
light now
recount it
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CHAPTER XIX.
THE TRIAL — RESUMPTION.
In this state of mind Nekhludoff left the Court and went
into the jurymen's room. He sat by the window smoking
all the while, and hearing what was being said around him.
The merry merchant seemed with all his heart to sympa-
thise with Smelkoflf's way of spending his time.
"There, old fellow, that was something like! Real Si-
berian fashion! He knew what V^ was about, no fear!
That's the sort of wench for me."
The foreman was stating his conviction, that in some
way or other the expert's conclusions were the important
thing. Peter Gerasimovitch was joking about something
with the Jewish clerk, and they burst out laughing. Nekh-
ludoff answered all the questions addressed to him in
monosyllables and longed only to be left in peace.
When the usher, with his sideways gait, called the jury
back to the Court, Nekhludoff was seized with fear, as if
he were not going to judge, but to be judged. In the depth
of his soul he felt that he was a scoundrel, who ought to be
ashamed to look people in the face, yet, by sheer force of
habit, he stepped on to the platform in his usual self-pos-
sessed manner, and sat down, crossing his legs and playing
with his pince-nes.
The prisoners had also been led out, and were now
brought in again. There were some new faces in the Court
—witnesses, and Nekhludoff noticed that Maslova could
not take her eyes off a very fat woman who sat in the row
in front of the gratmg, very showily dressed in silk and
velvet, a high hat with a large bow on her head, and an ele-
gant little reticule on her arm, which was bare to the elbow.
This was, as he subsequently found out, one of the wit-
nesses, the mistress of the establishment to which Maslova
had belonp-ed.
• The examination of the witnesses commenced : they were
asked their names, religion, etc. Then, after some con-
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sultation as to whether the witnesses were to be sworn in
or not, the old priest came in again, dragging his legs with
difficulty, and, again arranging the golden cross on his
breast, swore the witnesses and the expert in the same quiet
. manner, and with the same assurance that he was doing
something useful and important.
The witnesses having been sworn, all but Kitaeva, the
keeper of the house, were led out again. She was asked
what she knew about this affair. Kitaeva nodded her head
and the big hat at every sentence and smiled affectedly. She
gave a very full and intelligent account, speaking with a
strong German accent. First of all, the hotel servant
Simeon, whom she knew, came to her establishment on be-
half of a rich Siberian merchant, and she sent Lubov back
with him. After a time Lubov returned with the merchant.
The merchant was already somewhat intoxicated — she
smiled as she said this — and went on drinking and treating
the girls. He wa? short of monev. He sent this same
Lubov to his lodgings. He had taken a " predilection " to
her. She looked at the prisoner as she said this.
Nekhludoff thought he saw Maslova smile here, and this
seemed disgusting to him. A strange, indefinite feeling
of loathing, mingled with suffering, arose in him.
"And what was your opinion of Maslova?" asked the
blushing and confused applicant for a judicial post, ap-
pointed to act as Maslova's advocate.
" Zee ferry pesht," answered Kitaeva. " Zee yoong
voman is etucated and elecant. She was prought up in a
coot family and can reat French. She tid have a trop too
moch sometimes, put nefer forcot herself. A ferry coot
girl."
Katusha looked at the woman, then suddenly turned her
eyes on the jury and fixed them on Nekhludoff, and her
face grew serious and even severe. One of her serious eyes
squinted, and those two strange eyes for some time gazed
at Nekhludoff, who, in spite of the terrors that seized him,
could not take his look off these squinting eyes, with their
bright, clear whites.
He thought of that dreadful night, with its mist, the ice
breaking on the river below, and when the waning moon,
with horns turned upwards, that had risen towards morn-
ing, lit up something black and weird. These two black
eyes now looking at him reminded him of this weird, black
some
Nekl
not 1
at thi
only
H(
wher
The
guste
bird
. ^"
listen
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e sworn in
s legs with
Dss on his
same quiet
was doing
itaeva, the
was asked
d her head
:tedly. She
ng with a
el servant
lent on be-
ubov back
merchant,
cated — she
id treating
this same
ection " to
e, and this
ite feeling
asked the
post, ap-
ee yoong
It up in a
a trop too
Ferry coot
urned her
', and her
rious eyes
ime gazed
eized him,
with their
somethmg. She has recognised me," he thought, and
Nekhludoflf shrank as if expecting a blow. But she had
not recognised him. She sighed quietly and again looked
at the president. Nekhludofif also sighed, " Oh, if it would
only get on quicker," he thought.
He now felt the same loathing and pity and vexation as
when, out shooting, he was obliged to kill a wounded bird.
The wounded bird struggles in the game bag. One is dis-
gusted and yet feels pity, a'nd one is in a hurry to kill the
bird and forget it.
Such mixed feelings filled Nekhludoflf's breast as he sat
listening to the examination of the witnesses.
st, the ice
ing moon,
rds morn-
two black
iird, black
i!!!
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CHAPTER XX.
THE TRIAL — THE MEDICAL REPORT.
But, as if to spite him, the case dragged out to a great
length. After each witness had been examined separately
and the expert last of all, and a great number of useless
questions had been put, with the usual air of importance, by
the public prosecutor and by both advocates, the president
invited the jury to examine the objects offered as material
evidence. They consisted of an enormous diamond ring,
which had evidently been worn on the first finger, and a
test tube in which the poison had been analysed. These
things had seals and labels attached to them.
Just as the witnesses were about to look at these things,
the public prosecutor rose and demanded that before they
did this the results of the doctor's examination of the body
should be read. The president, who was hurrying the busi-
ness through as fast as he could in order to visit his Swiss
friend, though he knew that the reading of this paper could
have no other effect than that of producing weariness and
putting off the dinner hour, and that the public prosecutor
wanted it read simply because he knew he had a right to
demand it, had no option but to express his consent.
The secretary got out the doctor's report and again
began to read in his weary lisping voice, making no dis-
tinction between the " r's " and " I's."
The external examination proved that :
" I. Theropont Smelkoflf's height was six feet five inches.
" Not so bad, that. A very good size," whispered the
merchant, with interest, into Nekhludoff 's ear.
2. He looked about 40 years of age.
3. The body was of a swollen appearance.
4. The flesh was of a greenish colour, with dark spots in
several places.
5. The skin was raised in blisters of different sizes and in
places had come off in large pieces.
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It to a great
d separately
;r of useless
portance, by
he president
[ as material
amond ring,
nger, and a
sed. These
:hese things,
before they
of the body
ing the busi-
sit his Swiss
paper could
eariness and
c prosecutor
d a right to
>nsent.
•t and again
king no dis-
t five inches,
hispered the
* i
lark spots in ||
: sizes and in
6. The hair was chestnut ; it was thick, and separated
easily from the skin when touched,
7. The eye-balls protruded from their sockets and the
cornea had grown dim.
8. Out of the nostrils, both ears, and the mouth oozed
serous liquid ; the mouth was half open.
9. The neck had almost disappeared, owing to the sv;ell-
ing of the face and chest."
And so on and so on.
Four pages were covered with the 2y paragraphs describ-
ing all the details of the external examination of the enor-
mous, fat, swollen, and decomposing body of the merchant
who had been making merry in the town. The indefinite
loathing that Nekhludoflf felt was increased by the descrip-
tion of the corpse. Katusha's life, and the serum oozing
from the nostrils of the corpse, and the eyes that protruded
out of their sockets, and his own treatment of her — all
seemed to belong to the same order of things, and he felt
surrounded and wholly absorbed by things of the same
nature.
When the reading of the report of the external examina-
tion was ended, the president heaved a sigh and raised his
hand, hoping it was finished ; but the secretary at once went
on to the description of the internal examination. The
president's head again dropped into his hand and he shut
his eyes. The merchant next to Nekhludoflf could hardly
keep awake, and now and then his body swayed to and fro.
The prisoners and the gendarmes sat perfectly quiet.
The internal examination showed that:
" I. The skin was easily detachable from the bones of the
skull, and there was no coagulated blood.
" 2. The bones of the skull were of average thickness and
in sound condition.
" 3. On the membrane of the brain there were two dis-
coloured spots about four inches long, the membrane itself .
being of a dull white." And so on for 13 paragraphs more,
Then followed the names and signatures of the assistants,
and the doctor's conclusion showing that the changes ob-
served in the stomach, and to a lesser degree in the bowels
and kidneys, at the post-mortem examination, and
, described in the ofificial report, gave great probabiliiy to the
conclusion that Smelkoflf's death was caused by poison
which had entered his stomach mixed with alcohol. To de-
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cide from the state of the stomach what poison had been
introduced was difficult; but it was necessary to suppose
that the poison entered the stomach mixed with alcohol,
since a great quantity of the latter was found in Smelkoflf's
stomach.
" He could drink, and no mistake," again whispered the
merchant, who had just waked up.
The reading of this report had taken a full hour, but it
had not satisfied the public prosecutor, for, when it had
been read through and the president turned to him, saying,
" I suppose it is superfluous to read the report of the exam-
ination of the internal organs?" he answered in a severe
tone, without looking at the president, " I shall ask to have
it read."
He raised himself a little, and showed by his manner that
he had a right to have this report read, and would claim
this right, and that if that were not granted it would serve
as a cause of appeal.
The member of the Court with the big beard, who suf-
fered from catarrh of the stomach, feeling quite done up,
turned to the president :
" What is the use of reading all this ? It is only dragging
it out. These new brooms do not sweep clean; they only
take a long while doing ir."
The member with the gold spectacles said nothing, but
only looked gloomily in front of him, expecting nothing
good, either from his wife or life in general. The reading
of the report commenced.
" In the year 188—, on February 15th, I, the under-
signed, commissioned by the medical department, made an
examination, No. 638," the secretary began again with
firmness and raising the pitch of his voice as if to dispel the
sleepiness that had overtaken all present, " in the presence
of the assistant medical inspector, of the internal organs:
" I. The right lung and the heart (contained in a 6-lb.
glass jar).
" 2. The contents of the stomach (in a 6-lb. glass jar).
" 3. The stomach itself (in a 6-lb. glass jar).
"4. The liver, the spleen and the kidneys (in a o-lb.
glass jar).
" 5. The intestines (in a 9-lb. earthenware jar)."
The president here whispered to one of the members,
then stooped to the other, and having received their con-
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on had been
^ to suppose
ivith alcohol,
in Smelkoff's
whispered the
hour, but it
when it had
him, saying,
of the exam-
[ in a severe
I ask to have
manner that
would claim
would serve
rd, who suf-
ite done up,
ily dragging
n; they only
nothing, but
:ing nothing
The reading
the under-
nt, made an
again with
to dispel the
the presence
1 organs :
:d in a 6-lb.
lass jar).
(in a 9-lb.
le members,
d their con-
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sent, he said : " The Court considers the reading of this re-
port superfluous." The secretary stopped reading and
folded the paper, and the public prosecutor angrily began
to write down something. "The gentlemen of the jury
may now examine the articles of material evidence " said
the president. The foreman and several of the others rose
and went to the table, not quite knowing what to do with
their hands. They looked in turn at the glass, the test tube,
< lu ""^' merchant even tried on- the ring
^^ I Ah ! that ^yas a finger," he said, returning to his place ;
like a cucumber," he added. Evidently the image he had
formed in his mind of the gigantic merchant amused him.
,
ii;:l!:
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CHAPTER XXI.
THE TRIAL — THE PROSECUTOR AND THE ADVOCATES.
When the examination of the articles of material evi-
dence was finished, the president announced that the inves-
tigation was now concluded and immediately called on the
prosecutor to proceed, hoping that as the latter was also a
man, he, too, might feel inclined to smoke or dine, and
show some mercy on the rest. But the public prosecutor
showed mercy neither to himself nor to any one else. He
was ver> stupid by nature, but, besides this, he had had the
misfortune of finishing school with a gold medal and of
receiving a reward for his essay on "Servitude" when
studying Roman Law at the University, and was therefore
self-confident and self-satisfied in the highest degree (his
success with the ladies also conducing to this) and his stu-
pidity had become extraordinary.
When the word was given to him, he got up slowly,
showing the whole of his graceful figure in his embroidered
uniform. Putting his hand on the desk he looked round
the room, slightly bowing his head, and, avoiding the eyes
of the prisoners, began to read the speech he had pre-
pared while the reports were being read.
" Gentlemen of the jury ! The business that now lies be-
fore you is, if I may so express myself, very characteristic."
The speech of a public prosecutor, according to his
views, should always have a social importance, like the
celebrated speeches made by the advocates who have be-
come distinguished. True, the audience consisted of three
women — a semptress, a cook, and Simeon's sister— and a
coachman; but this did not matter. The celebrities had
begun in the same way. To be always at the height of his
position, _«.^., to penetrate into the depths of the psycholog-
ical significance of crime and to discover the wounds of
society, was one of the prosecutor's principles.
" You see before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime
characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our
I
I
/OCATES.
naterial evi-
at the inves-
alled on the
r was also a
>r dine, and
: prosecutor
le else. He
had had the
edal and of
ude " when
as therefore
degree (his
and his stu-
up slowly,
;mbroidered
oked round
ng the eyes
le had pre-
low lies be-
racteristic."
ling to his
:e, like the
lo have be-
ted of three
ster — and a
;brities had
eight of his
psycholog-
wounds of
•y, a crime
end of our
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ve?!Tain!;fl^nh^' '"^ '° '^h '^^ ^P'^'fi^ ^^^tures of that
very painful phenomenon, the corruption to which those
elements of our present-day society, which are, so to say
Lbj'e'ct''^ ^ '^P°''^ '° '^' burning'rays of this process, aJe
f^I!"^ ^."^"^ prosecutor spoke at great length, trying not
on telf "\°^ '^ "°''°"^ ^^ •^^^ ^^'•'"^d in his m nd^and
on the other hand, never to hesitate, and let his speech flow
on for an hour and a quarter without a break "
Only once he stopped and for some time stood swallow-
ng his saliva, but he soon mastered himself and made uo
for the interruption by heightened eloquence HTsooke
tTLT'^'/'^^-"'"' ^"«'«"-ting accent,\tepp1ngTrom^?oot'
foot and looking at the jury, now in quiet, busineTs-Hke
tones, glancing into his notebook, then with a bud ac!
cusing voice, looking from the audience to the advocates
But h« avoided looking at the prisoners, who were aU three
fixedly gazing at him. Every new craze then in vo Jue
among his set was alluded to in his speech ; evervth"ng tha?
thrjt wo?d"s^f "^-^ %-^'.'Y ^^"' ^^^' considered i be
ttie last words of scientific wisdom : the laws of hereditv and
inborn criminality, evolution and the struggle for existence
hypnotism and hypnotic influence existence,
oAhlZt'''^- *°i'' definition, the merchant SmelkofY was
nLn..?ff T"^ ^"'''^" ^^^P"' ^"^ ^^d Pe"shed in conse-
quence of his generous, trusting nature, having fallen into
the hands of deeply degraded individuals. ^
bimeon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serf
evTn'an; r"eS 'TuT' -P"T-P^ed'-an,'who hld'not
orhered^tv fn th. ?"P^TJ^ "^^^ his mistress, and a victim
ot heredity, all the signs of degeneration were noticeable in
seniinltl ^^ Wire-puller in this affair was Maslova. pre-
'' ThTs^vomn^n "T'"'"5^^ ^" ''' J^^^St form.
1 his woman he said, looking at her, " has, as we have
to-day heard from her mistress in this court receTved an
education; she cannot only read and write, but she knows
French; she is illegitimate, and probably carries in he? the
germs of criminality. She was educated in an enlightened
noble family and might have lived by honest work bmshe
deserts her benefactress, gives herself up to aTfe of shame
m which she IS distinguished from her compan ons by 1^'
education, and chiefly, gentlemen of the jury as you have
heard from her mistress, by her power of ictfng on tSe vTs!
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itors by means of that mysterious capacity lately investi-
gated by science, especially by the school of Charcot,
known by the name of hypnotic influence. By these means
she gets liold of this Russian, this kind-hearted Sadko,*
the rich guest, and uses his trust in order first to rob and
then pitilessly to murder him."
" Well, he is piling it on now, isn't he?" said the presi-
dent with a smile, bending towards the serious member.
" A fearful blockhead ! " said the serious member.
Meanwhile the public prosecutor went on with his
speech. " Gentlemen of the jury," gracefully swaying his
body, " the fate of society is to a certain extent in your
power. Your verdict will influence it. Grasp the full
meaning of this crime, the danger that awaits society from
those whom I may perhaps be permitted to call pathologi-
cal individuals, such as Maslova. Guard it from infection;
guard the innocent and strong elements of society from
contagion or even destruction."
And as if himself overcome by the significance of the ex-
pected verdict, the public prosecutor sank into his chair,
highly delighted with his speech.
The sense of the speech, when divested of all its flowers
of rhetoric, was that Maslova, having gained the mer-
chant's confidence, hypnotised him and went to his lodg-
ings with his key meaning to take all the money herself,
but having been caught in the act by Simeon and Eu-
phemia had to share it with them. Then, in order to hide
the traces of the crime, she had returned to the lodgings
with the merchant and there poisoned him.
After the prosecutor had spoken, a middle-aged man in
swallow-tail coat and low-cut waistcoat showing a large
half-circle of starched white shirt, rose from the advocates'
bench and made a speech in defence of Kartinkin and
Botchkova ; this was an advocate engaged by them for 300
roubles. He acquitted them both and put all the blame on
Maslova. He denied the truth of Maslova's statements
that Botchkova and Kartinkin were with her when she
took the money, laying great stress on the point that her
evidence could not be accepted, she being charged with
poisoning. " The 2,500 roubles," the advocate said, " could
have been easily earned by two honest people getting from
three to five roubles per day in tips from the lodgers. The
*Sadko, the hero of a legend.
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ly investi-
Charcot,
lese means
d Sadko,*
:o rob and
the presi-
lember.
)er.
with his
vaying his
it in your
D the full
iciety from
pathologi-
infection;
ciety from
of the ex-
his chair,
its flowers
I the mer-
) his lodg-
ley herself,
1 and Eu-
ler to hide
e lodgings
ed man in
ig a large
advocates'
tinkin and
em for 300
; blame on
statements
when she
it tliat her
irged with
lid, " could
itting from
gers. The
merchant's money was stolen by Maslova and given avvav
or even lost, as she was not in a normal state "
The poisoning was committed by Maslova alone • there-
fore he begged the jury to acquit Kartinkin and Botchkova
of s ealing the money ; or if they could not acquit them of
the thefi, at least to admit that it was done without any oar-
ticipation m the poisoning. ^
In conclusion the advocate remarked, with a thrust at
he public prosecutor, that " the brilliant observations of
that gentleman on heredity, while explaining scientific facts
concerning heredity, were inapplicable in this case, as
Botchkova was of unknown parentage." The public prose-
cutor put something down on paper with an angry look
and shrugged his shoulders in contemptuous surprise. '
Ihen Mas ova s advocate rose, and timidily and hesitat-
ingly began his speech in her defence
Without denying that she had taken part in the stealing
of the money, he insisted on the fact that she had no inten-
tion of poisoning SmelkofY, but had given him the powder
only to make him fall asleep. He tried to go in for a little
eloquence in giving a description of how Maslova was led
n^!n-1 / •^/.debauchery by a man who had remained un-
punished while she had to bear all the weight of her fall-
but this excursion into the domain of psychology was so
unsuccessful that it made everybody feel uncomfortable
When he muttered something about men's cruelty and
women s helplessness, the president tried to help him by
asking him to keep closer to the facts of the case. When
he had finished the public prosecutor got up to reply He
defended his position against the first advocate, saying that
even If Botchkova was of unknown parentage the truth of
the doctrine of heredity was thereby in no way invalidated
since the laws of heredity were so far proved by science that
we can not only deduce the crime from heredity, but hered-
al\^71 \uT?- ^' ^^ *^.^ statement made in defence
of Maslova, that she was the victim of an imaginary (he laid
a particularly venomous stress on the word imaginary) be-
trayer he could only say that from the evidence before
them It was much more likely that she had played the part
fnflT^ r''/° ?r^"^ ^""^ ""^"y ^ V'ct^'" who had fallen
into her hands. Having said this he sat down in triumph
Ihen the prisoners were oflfered permission to speak in
their own defence. ^
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Euphernia Botchkova repeated once more that she 1-new
nothing about it and had taken part in nothing, and tinnly
laid the whole blame i vn Maslova. Simeon Kartinkin only
repeated several times ' It is your business, but I am in-
nocent ; it's unjust." Maslova said nothing in her defence.
Told she might do so by the president, she only lifted her
eyes to him, cast a look round the room like a hunted ani-
mal, and, dropping her head, began to cry, sobbing aloud.
"What is the matter?" the merchant asked Nekhludofif,
hearing him utter a strange sound. This was the sound of
weeping fiercely kept back. Nekhludofl' had not yet under-
stood the significance of his present position, and attributed
the sobs he could hardly keep back and the tears that filled
his eyes to the weakness of his nerves. He put on his
phice-nes in order to hide the tears, then got out his hand-
kerchief and began blowing his nose.
Fear of the disgrace that would befall him if every one
in the court knew of his conduct stifled the inner working
of his soul. This fear was, during this first period, stronger
than all else.
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ihc knew
1(1 firmly
ikin only
I am in-
defence.
ifted her
nted ani-
r aloud,
khludoflf,
sound of
et under-
ittributed
;hat filled
It on his
[lis hand-
very one
working
stronger
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CHAPTER XXII.
THE TRIAL — THE SUMMING UP.
After the last words of the prisoners had been heard, the
form m which the questions were to be put to the jury was
settled, which also took some time. At last the questions
were formulated, and the president began the summing up.
Before putting the case to the jury, he spoke to the n for
some time in a pleasant, homely manner, explaining Miat
burglary was burglary and theft was theft, and that steal-
ing from a place which was under lock and key -vas
stealing from a place under lock and ke . While lie
was explaining this, he looked several times at Nekhliid )flf
as if wishing to impress upon him these important facts, m
hopes that, having understood it, Nekhludoflf would make
his fellow-jurymen also understand it. When he considered
that the jury were sufficiently imbued with these facts, he
proceeded to enunciate another truth— namely, that a mur-
der IS an action which has the death of a human being as
Its consequence, and that poisoning could therefore also
be termed murder. When, according to his opinion, this
truth had also been received by the jury, he went on to ex-
plain that if theft and murder had been committed at the
same time, the combination of the crimes was theft with
murder.
Although he was himself anxious to finish as soon as
possible, although he knew that his Swiss friend would be
waiting for him, he had grown so used to his occupation
that, having begun to speak, he could not stop himself, and
therefore he went on to impress on the jury with much de-
tail that if they found the prisoners guilty, they would have
the right to give a verdict of guilty ; and if they found them
not guilty, to give a verdict of not guilty ; and if they found
them guilty of one of the crimes and not of the other, they
might give a verdict of guilty on the one count and of not
guilty on the other. Then he explained that though this
right was given them they should use it with reason. He
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was going to add that if they gave an affirmative answer to
any question that was put to them they would thereby af-
firm everything included in the question, so that if they
did not wish to affirm the whole of the question they should
mention the part of the question they wished to be ex-
cepted. But, glancing at the clock, and seeing it was al-
ready five minutes to three, he resolved to trust to their
being intelligent enough to understand this without further
comment.
" The facts of this case are the following," began the
president, and repeated all that had already been said sev-
eral times by the advocates, the public prosecutor and the
witnesses.
The president spoke, and the members on each side of
him listened with deeply-attentive expressions, but looked
from time to time at the clock, for they considered the
speech too long though very good — i.e., such as it ought to
be. The public prosecutor, the lawyers, and, in fact, every-
one in the court, shared the same impression. The presi-
dent finished the summing up. Then he found it necessary to
tell the jury what they all knew, or might have found out by
reading it up — i.e., how they were to consider the case,
count the votes, in case of a tie to acquit the prisoners,
and so on.
Everything seemed to have been told ; but no, the presi-
dent could not forego his right of speaking as yet. It was
so pleasani to hear the impressive tones of his own voice,
and therefore he found it necessary to say a few words more
about the importance of the rights given to the jury, how
carefully they should use the rights and how they ought
not to abuse them, about their being on their oath, that
they were the conscience of society, that the secrecy of the
debating-room should be considered sacred, etc.
From the time the president commenced his speech,
Maslova watched him without moving her eyes as if afraid
of losing a single word ; so that NekhludoflF was not afraid
of meeting her eyes and kept looking at her all the time.
And his mind passed through those phases in which a face
which we have not seen for many years first strikes us with
the outward changes brought about during the time of
separation, and then gradually becomes more and more
like its old self, when the changes made by time seem to
disappear, and before our spiritual eyes rises only the prin-
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answer to
lereby af-
at if they
ey should
to be ex-
it was al-
t to their
ut further
)egan the
said sev-
r and the
;h side of
ut looked
dered the
t ought to
ict, every-
rhe presi-
cessary to
nd out by
the case,
prisoners,
the presi-
t. It was
(wn voice,
ords more
jury, how
ley ought
oath, that
ecy of the
s speech,
s if afraid
not afraid
the time,
lich a face
es us with
e time of
and more
e seem to
' the prin-
cipal expression of one exceptional, unique individuality
Yes, though dressed in a prison cloak, and in spite of the
developed figure, the fulness of the bosom and lower part of
the face, in spite of a few wrinkles on the forehead atid
temples and the swollen eyes, this was certainly the same
Katusha who, on that Easter eve, had so innocently looked
up to him whom she loved, with her fond, laughing eves
full of joy and life. » & /
'' What a strange coincidence that after ten years, during
which I never saw her, this case should have come up to-
day when I am on the jury, and that it is in the prisoners'
dock that I see her again ! And how will it end ? Oh, dear
if they would only get on quicker." '
Still he would not give in to the feelings of repentance
which began to arise within him. He tried to consider it all
as a coincidence, which would pass without infringing his
manner of life. He felt himself in the position of a puppy,
when Its master, taking it by the scrufT of its neck, rubs its
nose in the mess it has made. The puppv whines, draws
back and wants to get away as far as possible from the ef-
fects of its misdeed, but the pitiless master does not let go
And so, Nekhludoflf, feeling all the repulsiveness of what
he had done, felt also the powerful hand of the Master, but
he did not feel the whole significance of his action yet and
would not recognize the Master's hand. He did not wish
to believe that it was the eflFect of his deed that lay before
him, but the pitiless hand of the Master held him and he felt
he could not get away. He was still keeping up his cour-
age and sat on his chair in the first row in his usual self-
possessed pose, one leg carelessly thrown over the other
and playing with his pince-nes. Yet all the while, in the
depths of his soul, he felt the cruelty, cowardice and base-
ness not on y of this particular action of his but of his
whole self-willed, depraved, cruel, idle life; and that dread-
tul veil which had in some unaccountable manner hidden
rom him this sin of his and the whole of his subsequent
hfe was beginning to shake, and he caught glimpses of what
was covered by that veil. & s i^ ^^ wnai
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CHAPTER XXIII.
THE TRIAL — THE VERDICT.
At last the president finished his speech, and lifting the
list of questions with a graceful movement of his arm he
handed it to the foreman, who came up to take it. The
jury, glad to be able to get into the debating-court, got up
one after the other and left the room, looking as if a bit
ashamed of themselves and again not knowing what to do
with their hands.- As soon as the door was closed behind
them a gendarme came up to it, pulled his sword out of the
scabbard, and, holding it up against his shoulder, stood at
the door. The judges got up and went away. The pris-
oners were also led out. When the jury came into the de-
bating-room the first thing they did was to take out their
cigarettes, as before, and begin smoking. The sense of the
unnaturalness and falseness of their position, which all of
them had experienced while sitting in their places in the
court, passed when they entered the debating-room and
started smoking, and they settled down with a feeling of
relief and at once began an animated conversation.
" 'Tis n't the girl's fault. She's got mixed up in it," said
the kindly merchant. " We must recommend her to
mercy."
" That's just what we are going to consider," said the
foreman. " We must not give way to our personal impres-
sions."
" The president's summing up was good," remarked the
colonel.
" Good? Why, it nearly sent me to sleep!"
" The chief point is that the servants could have known
nothing about the money if Maslova had not been in ac-
cord with them," said the clerk of Jewish extraction.
"Well, do you think that it was she who stole the
money ? " asked one of the jury.
" I will never believe it,'" cried the kindly merchant,; " it
was all that red-eyed hag's doing."
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fting the
i arm he
it. The
:, got up
i if a bit
lat to do
d behind
ut of the
stood at
rhe pris-
3 the de-
out their
se of the
ch all of
:s in the
)om and
eeling of
it," said
her to
said the
I impres-
rked the
e known
;n in ac-
)n.
itole the
lant.; " it
^^ They are a nice lot, all of them/' said the colonel.
u 5"* ^^y^ ^^^ ^^^^^ went into the room "
^^ Oh, believe her by all means."
'' Jju °V^^ "°^ believe that jade, not for the world."
Whether you believe her or not does not settle the
question," said the clerk.
u S,^ ^^^' ^^^ *^^ ^^y'" s^^^ t^e colonel.
What if she had ? " retorted the merchant.
"And the ring?"
.t.l?"^''^'''. n'^ 'f^.^" ^^°"^ '^•" ^g^^>" c"ed the mer-
chant. 1 he fellow had a temper of his own, and had had a
drop too much besides, and gave the girl a licking; what
could be simpler? Well, then he's sorry-quite niturally
Ihere, never mind,' says he; 'take this.' Why, I heard
them say he was six foot five high ; I should think he must
have weighed about 20 stones."
" That's not the point," said Peter Gerasimovitch. " The
question is, whether she was the instigator and inciter in
this affair, or the servants ?"
had^th^r ""^ P°^^^^^^ ^°^ the servants to do it alone; she
This kind of random talk went on for a considerable
time. At last the foreman said : " I beg your pardon, gen-
tlemen, but had we not better take our places at the table
and discuss the matter? Come, please." And he took the
chair.
The questions were expressed in the following manner-—
1. Is the peasant of the village Borki, Krapivinskia dis-
trict, Simeon Petrov Kartinkin, 33 years of age, guilty of
having m agreement with other persons, given the mer-
chant SmelkoflF, on the 17th January, 188—, in the town of
ITT"' "^l^r '"tent to deprive him of life, for the purpose of
robbing him, poisoned brandy, which caused SmelkoflF's
death, and of having stolen from him about 2,500 roubles in
money and a diamond ring?
2. Is the meschanka Euphemia Ivanovna Botchkova 4^
years of age, guilty of the crimes described above?
3. Is the meschanka Katerina Michaelovna Maslova 27
years of age, guilty of the crimes described in the first
question ?
4. If the prisoner Euphem.ia Botchkova is not guilty ac-
cording to the first question, is she not guilty of having on
the 17th January, 188-, in the town of N-— , while Tn ser"
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vice at the Hotel Mauritania, stolen from a locked port-
manteau, belonging to the merchant Smelkoff, a lodger in
that hotel, and which was in the room occupied by him,
2,500 roubles, for which object she unlocked the portman-
teau with a key she brought and fitted to the lock ?
The foreman read the first question.
" Well, gentlemen, what do you think ? "
This question was quickly answered. All agreed to say
" Guilty," as if convinced that Kartinkin had taken part
both in the poisoning and the robbery. An old artelshik,*
whose answers were all in favour of acquittal, was the only
exception.
The foreman thought he did not understand, and began
to point out to him that everything tended to prove Kartin-
kin's guilt. The old man answered that he did understand,
but still thought it better to have pity on him. ** We are
not saints ourselves," and he kept to his opinion.
The answer to the second question concerning Botch-
kova was, after much dispute and many exclamations,
answered by the words, " Not guilty," there being no clear
proofs of her having taken part in the poisoning — a fact her
advocate had strongly insisted on. The merchant, anxious to
acquit Maslova, insisted that Botchkova was the chief in-
stigator of it all. Many of the jury shared this view, but
the foreman, wishing to be in strict accord with the law,
declared they had no grounds to consider her as an accom-
plice in the poisoning. After much disputing the foreman's
opinion triumphed.
To the fourth question concerning Botchkova t!ie answer
was " Guilty." But on the artelshik' s insistence ,she was
recommended to mercy.
The third question, concerning Maslova, raised a fierce
dispute. The foreman maintained she was guilty both of
the poisoning and the theft, to which the merchant would
not agree. The colonel, the clerk and the old artelshik
sided with the merchant, the rest seemed shaky, and the
opinion of the foreman began to gain ground, chiefly be-
cause all the jurymen were getting tired, and preferred to
take up the view that would bring them sooner to a deci-
sion and thus liberate them.
From all that had passed, and from his former knowledge
* Member of an nrtcl, an association of workmen, in which the
members share profits and liabilities.
eked port-
L lodger in
d by him,
; portman-
eed to say
taken part
artelshik*
IS the only
and began
ve Kartin-
nderstand,
" We are
ng Botch-
:lamations,
g no clear
a fact her
anxious to
e chief in-
view, but
h the law,
an accom-
foreman's
tlie answer
e ,she was
id a fierce
ty both of
ant would
1 artclshik
y, and the
chiefly be-
'eferred to
to a deci-
knowledge
1 which the
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n ^^K T' .^^^'"^ofT was certain that she was innocent
aS the oth'./^ T/ '^' P°^^°"^"^- ^"^ ^' f-Jt «"^e tha
he saw th.^r"^'^ "T" '^ ^^'^'""'''^ conclusion. When
lie saw that the merchant's awkward defence (evidently
based on his physical admiration for her, which he did not
even try to hide) and the foreman's insistence, and espe
cially everybody's weariness, were all tending o her con-
demnation he longed to state his objections, yet dared not
est his relations with Maslova should be d scovered He
Ob ect'ior^^ "T K,"°r- '^''''^\''' ^° °" ^^i^^^°"t stating hiS
objection; and, blushing and growing pale again was
about to speak when Peter Gerdsimovilch Jrritat^d bv The
authoritative manner of the foreman, began to ra se his ob-
jections and said the very things NekhLoff was about to
^u 1^"°^ "^? °"^ moment," he said. " You seem to think
that her having the key proves she is guilty of^he thdt
but what could be easier than for the servants to open te
portmanteau with a false key after she was gone?'°^
^^ Of course, of course," said the merchant.
She could not have taken the money, because in her
position she would hardly know what to do withT"
That s just what 1 say," remarked the merchant."
the servants' l^Z^^^l lu^l u"'" '^'"^"^ P"^ '^^ '^ea into
anVs^ird^l^^l^flirmVo^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^PP^^"-^^
Peter Gerasimovitch spoke so irritably that the foreman
ZTl 'T^'^^ '°?' ^"r? ^^"t °" obstinately defending
the opposite views ; but Peter Gerasimovitch spoke so con?
Tr^^V^^' '^^ '"^i^'-'ty ^g'-eed with him, ^and decided
But when the question of her having taken part in the
poisoning was raised, her zealous defender, the^merchant
declared that she must be acquitted, because she could have
no reason or the poisoning.' The foreman, however saM
that It was impossible to acquit her, because she hSf had
pleaded guilty to having given the powder. ^
Ves, but thinking it was opium," said the merchant
Upium can also deprive one of life," said the colonel
who was fond of wandering from the subj-t ^nd h- b-^n
lelling how his brother-in-iaw's wife would have died oUn
overdose of opium if there had not been a doctor near at
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hand to take the necessary measures. The colonel told his
story so impressively, with such self-possession and dignity,
that no one had the courage to interrupt him. Only the
clerk, infected by his example, decided to break in with a
story of his own : " There are some who get so used to it
that they can take 40 drops. I have a relative ," but
the colonel would not stand the interruption, .and went on
to relate what effects the opium had on his brother-in-law's
wife.
" But, gentlemen, do you know it is getting on towards
five o'clock?'' said one of the jury.
" Well, gentlemen, what are we to say, then ? " inquired
the foreman. " Shall we say she is guilty, but without in-
tent to rob? And without stealing any property? Will
that do?"
Peter Gerasimovitch, pleased with his victory, agreed.
" But she must be recommended to m.ercy," said the
merchant.
All agreed ; only the old artelshik insisted that they should
say " Not guilty."
" It comes to the same thing," explained the foreman ;
" without intent to rob, and without stealing any property.
Therefore, ' Not guilty,' that's evident."
" All right ; that'll do. And we recommend her to
mercy," said the merchant, gaily.
They were all so tired, so confused by the discussions,
that nobody thought of saying that she was guilty of giv-
ing the powder but without the intent of taking life. Nekh-
liidoff was so excited that he did not notice this omission,
and so the answers were written down in the form agreed
upon and taken to the court.
Rabelais says that a lawyer who was trying a case quoted
all sorts of laws, read 20 pages of judicial senseless Latin,
and then proposed to the judges to throw dice, and if the
numbers proved odd the defendant would be right, if not,
the plaintiff.
It was much the same in this case. The resolution was
taken, not because everybody agreed upon it, but because
the president, who had been summing up at such length,
omitted to say what he always said on such occasions, that
the answer might be, " Yes, guilty, but without the intent
of taking Hfe ;" because the colonel had related the story of
his brother-in-law's wife at such great length ; because
lel told his
id dignity,
Only the
in with a
used to it
," but
d went on
er-in-law's
)n towards
" inquired
vithout in-
Tty? Will
agreed.
' said the
hey should
; foreman;
J property.
nd her to
liscussions,
Ity of giv-
fe. Nekh-
; omission,
irm agreed
ase quoted
iless Latin,
and if the
^ht, if not,
«
(lution was
ut because
ich length,
isions, that
: the intent
he story of
1 : because
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Nekhludoflf was too excited to notice that the proviso
.r.'"^ \T u'"*T^ *° ^'^^ ^'^^ " h^d been omitted, and
thought that the words " without intent " nullified the con-
viction; because Peter Gerasimovitch had retired from the
room while the questions and answers were being read, and
chiefly because, being tired, and wishing to get awav as
soon as possible, all were ready to agree with the decision
which would bring matters to an end soonest
The jurymen rang the bell. The gendarme who had
stood outside the door with his sword drawn put the sword
back into the scabbard and stepped aside. The judges took
thar seats and the jury came out one by one.
The foreman brought in the paper with an air of solem-
nity and handed it to the president, who looked at it, and
spreading out his hands in astonishment, turned to consult
ms companions. The president was surprised that the jury
having put in a proviso— without intent to rob— did not put
in a second proviso— without intent to take life. From the
decision of the jury it followed that Maslova had not stolen
nor robbed, and yet poisoned a man without any apparent
" Just see what an absurd decision they have come to "
he whispered to the member on his left. " This means
penal servitude in Siberia, and she is innocent."
Surely you do not mean to say she is innocent^"
answered the serious member.
" Yes, she is positively innocent. I think this is a case
for putting Article 817 into practice (Article 817 states that
It the Court considers the decision of the jury unjust it mav
set It aside). ^ j > j
'' What do you think? " said the president, turning to the
other member. The kindly member did not answer at
-nee he looked at the number on a paper before him and
added up the figures ; the sum would not divide by three
He had settled in his mind that if it did divide by three he
would agree to the president's proposal, but though the
sum would not so divide his kindness made him aeree all
the same.
]^ I, too, think it should be done," he said.
"And you?" asked the president, turning to the serious
member.
" On no account," he answered, firmlv. " As it is the
papers accuse the jury of acquitting prisoners. What will
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they say if the Court does it? I shall not agree to that on
any account."
The president looked at his watch. " It is a pity, but
what's to be done ? " and handed the questions to the fore-
man to read out. All got up, and the foreman, stepping
from foot to foot, coughed, and read the questions and the
answers. All the Court, secretary, advocates, and even the
public prosecutor, expressed surprise. The prisoners sat
impassive, evidently not understanding the meaning of the
answers. Everybody sat down again, and the president
asked the prosecutor what punishments the prisoners were
to be subjected to.
The prosecutor, glad of his unexpected success in getting
Maslova convicted, and attributing the success entirely to
his own eloquence, looked up the necessary information,
rose and said :
" With Simeon Kartinkin I should deal according to
Statute 1,452 paragraph 93. Euphemia Botchkova accord-
ing to Statute . . ., etc. Katerina Maslova according
to Statute . . ., etc."
All three punishments were the heaviest that could be
inflicted.
" The Court will adjourn to consider the sentence," said
the president, rising. Everybody rose after him, and with
the pleasant feeling of a task well done began to leave the
room or move about in it.
" D'you know, sirs, we have made a shameful hash of
it ? " said Peter Gerasimovitch, approaching Nekhludofif , to
whom the foreman was relating something. "Why, we've
got her to Siberia." .
"What are you saying?" exclaimed Nekhludofif. This
time he did not notice the teacher's familiarity.
" Why, we did not put in our answer ' Guilty, but with-
out intent of causing death.' The secretary just told me the
public prosecutor is for condemning her to 15 years' penal
servitude."
" Well, but it was decided so," said the foreman.
Peter Gerasimovitch began to dispute this, saying that
since she did not take the money it followed naturally that
she could not have had any intention of committing murder.
" But I read the answer before going out," said the fore-
man, defending himself, " and nobody objected."
" I had just then gone out of the room," said Peter
to that on
a pity, but
o the fore-
1, stepping
ms and the
id even the
isoners sat
ling of the
J president
oners were
5 in getting
entirely to
iformation,
cording to
)va accord-
according
t could be
ence," said
I, and with
o leave the
:ul hash of
:hludoff, to
Vhy, we've
doff. This
, but with-
:old me the
ears' penal
in.
saying that
turally that
ng murder,
id the fore-
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Gerasimovitch, turning to Nekhludoff, " and your thou^ht^
must have been wool-gathering to let the thing pas ''^
'' ot S ::^^ ^^^l "^^^'" -^ Nekhludoff.
Nekhludoff looked at the prisoners. They whose fatP
was being deeded still sat motionless behind theTrawIn
front of the soldiers. Maslova was smiling AnSi £.1
ac^SliS Sk ''°^;f ^°"^- , Up " -w, e^x^ecti^yr^^^^
acquittal and thinking she would remain in the town hi
was uncertain how to act towards her. Any kinrot' re
lations with her would be so verv difficulf R,,f Sk • J
penal servitude at once cut off everfpo ibiH^^^^
of relations with her. The wounded bW wo 7d s ton ^str^^
e'^bfence''' ^'""'^^' ^"' "^ longer rSnd hrro"^"
said Peter
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CHAPTER XXIV.
THE TRIAL — THE SENTENCE.
Peter Gerasimovitch's assumption was correct. The
president came back from the debating room with a paper,
and read as follows :— " April 28th, 188—. By His Imperial
Majesty's ukase No. The Criminal Court, on the
strength of the decision of the jury, in accordance sMh Sec-
tion 3 of Statute 771, Section 3 of Statutes 776 and 777, de-
crees that the peasant, Simeon Kartinkin, 33 years of age,
and the meschanka Katerina Maslova, 27 years of age, are
to be deprived of all property rights and to be sent to penal
servitude in Siberia, Kartinkin for eight, Maslova for four
years, with the consequences stated in Statute 25 of the
code. The meschanka Botchkova, 43 years of age, to be
deprived of all special personal and a .ruired rights, and to
be imprisoned for three years with consequences in accord
with Statute 48 of the code. The costs of the case to be
borne equally by the prisoners; and, in the case of their
being without sufficient property, the costs to be trans-
ferred to the Treasury. Articles of material evidence to be
sold, the ring to be returned, the phials destroyed." Botch-
kova was condemned to prison, Simeon Kartinken and
Katerina Maslova to the loss of all special rights and
privileges and to penal servitude in Siberia, he for eight and
she for four years.
Kartinkin stood holding his arms close to his sides and
moving his lips. Botchkova seemed perfectly calm.
Maslova, when she heard the sentence, blushed scarlet.
" I'm not guilty, not guilty ! " she suddenly cried, so that it
resounded through the room. " It is a sin ! I am not
guilty ! I never wished — I never thought ! It is the truth I
am saying — the truth ! " and sinking on the bench she burst
into tears and sobbed aloud. When Kartinkin and Botch-
kova went out she still sat crying, so that a gendarme had
to touch the sleeve of her cloak.
" No ; it is impossible to leave it as it is," said Nekhludoff
ect. The
h a paper,
s Imperial
t, on the
\/3th Sec-
id jyj, de-
irs of age,
)f age, are
It to penal
a for four
25 of the
age, to be
its, and to
in accord
case to be
se of their
be trans-
ence to be
i." Eotch-
inken and
ights and
■ eight and
; sides and
:tly calm,
id scarlet.
>, so that it
I am not
the truth I
b she burst
md Botch-
darme had
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'^^^^'S^^^^^^ He did
to have finished the bSne Cd h''' S^o.ng out. pleased
a few seconds, and wl en he aH^-^^ ^ ^as obhged to wait
she was far in front He hurried ^ ''"'/"''^ '^''' '°'''-'^'°'-
[ler, regardless of he attentioT L ^^ '''" "^'■"^°'- ^-'^er
her up. passed her, and Spned Sh'^.'^'i^"''"^' ^^"^'^^
and only sobbed, w nin^ hl^T r ^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^ crying
end of the kerchi'e on hi head ' i^^^'^"'"^;' ^^^^ witl. th?
|ng him. Then he hurried back fn ^tf''^' ^''''^°"^ "«^'c-
atter had alreadv lef" X co^^r^ ? ^fe he president. The
him into the lobby Tnd went nS^r ^^?'<hludoflf followed
on his light grey overcoat Zl ^V'' '"^^ ^'^ ^ad put
mounted walking-s^k which an '^?f 'f'''"^ '^'^ ^''^^'-
him. ^ ^"^ ^"'C" an attendant was handing
busines^TLle^ •u^tVecTdrn^'"^' "'^^. ^'^^ concerning some
am one of theTury '' ^° ^^'^ Nekhludoff. " I
I thg' "^t^l^^:^^;^^^^ clelighted.
^^ than all the^^^f, pe^l^^^.^^^Ha^la^^Tdl^
SheTs^Ttguflt^^inhe'poisonirr; ^^5"^"^ ^aslova.
to penal servitude," safdNek^f.^"^
and gloomy air. ^^ekniudoff, with a preoccupied
an:7ers%';ru"%Sve:tt?^ with the
towards the front door ^ though t1/^^P["''^^"t' "moving
quite in accord." And'he remfn^h ^ ,"^'1 "°^ ^^^"^ to bS
going to explain to the jury thTt '/''^ *>' ^' ^^^ been
meant guilty of intentional murder 'l/''.t'' °^ " ^""^^ "
out mtent to take life " were add /h k !? *]'^. '^'^'^^^ '' ^ith-
get the. business over, omitted'to do t '"'' '" '^^ '""^ *°
., Yes, but could not the mistake be Rectified > »
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" But this is terrible."
" Well, you see, there were two possibilities before Mas-
lova," said the president, evidently wishing to be as polite
and pleasant to Nekhludoflf as he could. Then, having; ar-
ranged his whiskers over his coat •collar, he put his hand
lightly under Nekhludoff's elbow, and, still directing his
steps towards the front door, he said, " You are going,
too?" ,. ,
"Yes," said Nekhludoflf, quickly getting his coat, and
following him. , ,
They went out into the bright, merry sunlight, and had
to raise their voices because of the rattling of the wheels on
the pavement. ,. • i i
" The situation is a curious one, you see, said the presi-
dent • " what lay before this Maslova was one of two things :
either to be almost acquitted and only imprisoned for a
short time, or, taking the preliminary confinement into
consideration, perhaps not at all— or Siberia There is
nothing between. Had you but added the words, without
intent to cause death,' she would have been acquitted
" Yes, it was inexcusable of me to omit that, said ^ekh-
ludoflf. .. „ . , . . J .
" That's where the whole matter lies,' said the president,
with a smile, and looked at his watch. He had only three-
quarters of an hour left before the time appointed by his
Clara would elapse.
" Now, if you like to speak to the advocates you 11 have
to find a reason for an appeal ; that can be easily done
Then, turning to an isvostchik, he called out, " To the
Dvorvanskaya 30 copecks ; I never give more."
" AH right, your honour ; here you are."
" Good-afternoon. If I can be of any use, my address is
House Dvornikoflf, on the Dvoryanskaya ; it's easy to re-
member." And he bowed in a friendly manner as he got
into the trap and drove oflf.
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efore Mas-
le as polite
having ar-
it his hand
recting his
are going,
, coat, and
It, and had
2 wheels on
d the presi-
tvvo things :
ioned for a
ement into
, There is
Is, ' without
quitted."
said Nekh-
le president,
only three-
nted by his
you'll have
asily done."
t, '' To the
ly address is
easy to re-
er as he got
CHAPTER XXV.
NEKHLUDOFF CONSULTS AN ADVOCATE.
;; Well, and what is your business ? "
womlrfo ?:"» ^^'^ jury to-day, and we have condemned a
Try much" NVWir", T'^'T "°"^^"- Th'^ bothers me
became con WdF°^' '° '",' °^" ^"^P"^^' ^lu^hed and
^ookjd^^^^^^ ^^ '^^ -P^%- -d
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" To the Senate, you mean," said Fanarin, correcting
him.
" Yes, and I should like to ask you to take the case in
hand." Nekhludoff wanted to get the most difficult part
over, and added, " I shall take the costs of the case on my-
self, whatever they may be."
" Oh, we shall settle all that," said the advocate, smiling
with condescension at Nekhludoff's inexperience in these
matters. " What is the case ? "
Nekhludoff stated what had happened,
" All right. I shall look the case through to-morrow or
the day after — no — better on Thursday. If you will come
to me at six o'clock I will give you an answer. Well, and
now let us go ; I have to make a few inquiries here."
Nekhludoff took leave of him and went out. This talk
with the advocate, and the fact that he had taken measures
for Maslova's defence, quieted him still further. He went
out into the street. The weather was beautiful, and he joy-
fully drew in a long breath of spring air. He was at once
surrounded by isvostchiks offering their services, but he
went on foot. A whole swarm of pictures and memories
of Katusha and his conduct to her began whirling in his
brain, and he felt depressed and everything appeared
gloomy. " No, I shall consider all this later on ; I must
now get rid of all these disagreeable impressions," he
thought to himself.
He remembered the Korchagin's dinner and looked at
his watch. It was not yet too late to get there in time.
He heard the ring of a passing tramcar, ran to catch it, and
jumped en. He jumped off again when they got to the
market-place, took a good isvostchik, and ten minutes later
was at the entrance of the Korchagins' big house.
fat .
dooi
"yo
to a
stair
off h
"J
fami]
A
tail c
"I
are e:
Ne
large
ing-n
moth(
were
old K
visitoi
Noble.
Libera
ness
self. (
the K.
It was
were s
who w
geivitc
Katerii
•phil; ai
empty
, correcting
the case in
lifficult part
case on my-
:ate, smiling
ice in these
)-morrow or
u will come
. Well, and
here."
:. This talk
en measures
r. He went
and he joy-
was at once
ices, but he
id memories
irling in his
g appeared
on; I must
essions.
" he
id looked at
ere in time,
catch it, and
J got to the
ninutes later
ise.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
THE HOUSE OF KORCHAGIN.
fat d^oo'feVer:f?he\rcLX^^^^ '^^ *^^ ^-"^'y^
door, which'moved no^Zt^^^^^.^'^^f^^T^V^.^ '^^
you are expected. Thev ar. J. a- ' tngiisli hinges ;
to admit only you " The UX ""' ^^^' °''^^'^ ^''^^i
staircase and rang doorkeeper went as far as the
offht'ove'^rcoat'"^ strangers?" asked Nekhludoff, taking
faniity." ''''°^°'' ="'<' Michael Sergeivitch only, besides the
taifco\7a 'd^;t.";,tsTok1d''dr ''''/^^' '". ^ -^"°w-
" Please to walk-up yC°e«eUencv"T "''^'^"ding.
are expected." excellency, he said. " You
largJtndng-rrm w^hidA^l^"' ^^^^"^^ '^^ ^P^endid
ing-room. The?eThe whJL KorH.^ '"^ T^k ^"^° ^^^e din-
mother, Sophia Vasnilvnt whTnefe" teTt'r^^^K^P^ *^^
were sitting round the tahl^ a, !l I ," ^^^ cabinet-
old Korchagin; on his eft the dn^^' ^'^^ °^ '^' '^^^^ «at
visitor, IvaS Ivanovitch KAW^S'^^'"', ^"^ °" ^'' '^S^t, a
Noblesse, now a ban]^^dir^cto° L^' '^ ''""'' - ''''^'^ ^'
Liberal. Next on the lef sfd? :.. aT^^I'"^ ^"^"^ and a
ness of Missy's littesster.L /i^r''' ^^^"''■' ^^^ ^^^^r-
self OpposiLthem Ey's'SLt/^pTf^^^^^^^^ girl her-
were stiH i^:^;^. L'^t^oTT'^'^V''-' "^^'^ ^^-'y
who was coaching him and M?J'^ ^ University student
geivitch Telegin, gen^;airv ^ZJ 'J^J?''"' ^'^^ael Ser-
Katerina Alexdeinf, a 4^^^^^^^ Misha ; opposite him,
Ph'I; and at the foot o^ th° ^^M . '^f '^^" '^^y- ^ Slavol
^mpty place by her side '^* ''^'''^ ^^^«^"' with an
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..•^1 that s right! Sit down. We are still at the fish."
said old Korchagin with difficulty, chewing carefully with
his false teeth and lifting his bloodshot eyes (which had no
visible hds to them) to Nekhludofif.
•' Stephen! "he said, with his mouth full, addressing the
stout, dignihed butler, and pointing with his eyes to the
empty place Though Nekhludofif knew Korchagin very
well, and had often seen him at dinner, to-day this red face
uith the sensual smacking lips, the fat neck above the
napkin stuck into his waistcoat, and the whole over-fed
military figure, struck him very disagreeably. Then Nekh-
ludoff remembered, without wishing to, what he knew of the
cruelty of this man, who, when in command, used to have
men flogged, and even hanged, without rhyme or reason
fa^J^our ^""^"^^ ^^ '^^^ "^'^ ^"^ ^ad no need to curry
" Immediately, your excellency," said Stephen, getting
a large soup ladle out of the sideboard, which was decorated
with a number of silver vases. He made a sign with his head
to the handsome footman, who began at once to arrange
the untouched knives and forks and the napkin, elaborately
irntjT t^%^"^br°idered family crest uppermost, in
rnTn 1 ^ ^ ^""t^^ ?'^". V^^^ ^^ ^'^^^^ Nckhludoflf Went
round shaking hands with every one, and all, except old
Korchagin and the ladies, rose when he approached And
T^r.AA V^ '^''°"'. t^ "^^"'" *^'^^^' see"^ed unpleasant
^^ •?/' u e^C"sed .himself for being late, and was about
to sit dovyn between Missy and Katerina Alexeevna, but old
v!;,''^u^'"u'"ff ^'^, *^^^ '^ ^^ ^0"'d not take a glass of
vodka he should at least take a bit of something to whet his
appetite, at the side table, on which stood small dishes of
lobster, caviare, cheese, and salt herrings. Nekhludofif did
not knovv how hungry he was until he began to eat, and
then, having taken some bread and cheese, he went on eat-
ing eagerly. '^ i ^n cdi
"Well have you succeeded in undermining the basis of
society?" asked Kolosoflf, ironically quoting In expression
used by a retrogade newspaper in attacking trial bv iurv
Acquitted the culprits and condemned the innocent, have
" Undermining the basis—undermining the basis " re-
peated Prince Korchagin, laughing. He had a firm faith
Ne
at 1
at the fish,"
arefully with
vhich had no
idressing the
eyes to the
rchagin very
this red face
k above the
lole over-fed
Then Nekh-
: knew of the
ised to have
e or reason,
ed to curry
hen, getting
as decorated
vith his head
; to arrange
, elaborately
permost, in
iludoflf went
, except old
ached. And
Is of people,
unpleasant
d was about
vna, but old
: a glass of
to whet his
ill dishes of
chludoflF did
to eat, and
^^ent on eat-
the basis of
expression
ial by jury.
ocent, have
basis," re-
a firm faith
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loi
in .he_wi3do. and .earning of his chosen f.iend and eo,„.
q"es',i:,'n' unanst"r'^f/t,i„^1'''"''°« ''" Kolosoffs
soup went on eating. '"'"^ <'°"n 'o his steaming
soup went on eating.
Dolethin.eat/'^idMissy,^^,hasn.ile.
noun him she used as . r'^'^ ^'^^ ^ ^'^"e. The oro
Nekhludofr. Kolos'oi? Ven""n"b a ?' ^ "^^^^^ '>^ ^
manner to give the contents of tu °",'^ "^^'^^ ^nd lively
jury which had aroused hs ?nH-^ ^"^'"^^ ^^^'"st trial bv
Michael Sergeivitch, endorsed lK*'°"- ^'«^y'« ^ousin^
lated the contents if "nothp? ? •^," statements, and re
¥'Sfy was, as usuat very JL • [f 1^ '" ^^e same paper
sively well, dressed. ^ dtsitnguee, and well, unibC:
Nekh^r^5^:^!t^X ts^^i,^^^^^ -^^in. until
Not particulars. And vof^ u '"' "'°"th.
at, the pictures .>" he asked ^ ' """^ ^^'^ ^een to look
the Sa7amlto'ffs'*'¥t if "^^ ^^^^ ^^- P'aying tennis at
ma^kably weT" * ^' '' ^"'^^ ''^^' Mr. Crooks^ pLvs.e
though^s?tr^he^uldTfik^h'.' '"• °'"^"'" *° distract his
cause its refined luxury had%:7^ ^" '^^' ho"se, both be!
because of the atmosphere of ten^'^S' '^''' °» him and
sively surrounded him But to rl. ^^"?''>' ^^at unobtru-
was repulsive to himl-evernh n^^ ''r^'^'"^ ^" the hot se
t^M ^TP'"' *^^ '^'•oad stafrcase the fln ^"§^'""'"g^ with tiie
table decorations, up to Mfs.v h ?7^"' ^^e footman, the
unattractive and affected S^'.^'"'!^/' ^^o to-day seemed
t^e of liberalism was u^p,eL°i?°^' ^^'f-assureS, rivial
self-satisfied, bull-like ann£t' ^^ ^^^ also the sensual
French phrases of Kate^rLir °^ °'^ ^orchagin. and the
constrained looks oftt 'ovetn,?f ^"/' the ^^^^^hil. The
P easant, too, but most nnn? ' ^"? ^^e student were u
^^'J^thatMiss^haduTed Neteffh^'!' ^^^ ^^e prono n
lonrr 'r ^^>'« of reSnt M-'^^°"^^^^"^^^^ering
looked at her as if bv mooS.^ ^'^'>'' sometimes he
mg but what was beaudfT^^ /' ^"^ '°"'d see in her noth
then suddenly, a?,TSf ^, ^n'sSn'".^' ^^^^^^ and'aSi
^chtt:^.-^,.r^5,"- ?P seef^e^h °^^^^h!!^ -
^ce, knew whic^l^f l^^-Stll^^r^lli'l ^^^s^of ^e?
*aisc, saw the wav her
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hair was crimped, the sharpness of her elbows, and, above
all, how large her thumb-nail was and how like her father's.
" Tennis is a dull game," said Kolosoff ; " we used to play
laptd when we were children. That was much more amus-
mg.
" Oh, no, you never tried it ; it's awfully interesting," said
Missy, laying, it seemed to Nekhludofif, a very affected
stress on the word "awfully." Then a dispute arose in
which Michael Sergeivitch, Katerina Alexeevna and all the
others took part, except the governess, the student and the
children, who sat silent and wearied.
" Oh, these everlasting disputes ! " said old Korchagin,
laughing, and he pulled the napkin out of his waistcoat,
noisily pushed back his chair, which the footman instantly
caught hold of, and left the table.
Everybody rose after him, and went up to another table
on which stood glasses of scented water. They rinsed their
mouths, then resumed the conversation, interesting to no
one.
"Don't you think so?" said Missy to Nekhludofif, call-
ing for a confirmation of the statement that nothing shows
up a man's character like a game. She noticed that preoc-
cupied and, as it seemed to her, dissatisfied look which she
feared, and she wanted to find out what had caused it.
" Really, I can't tell ; I have never thought about it,"
Nekhludofif answered,
" Will you come to mamma? " asked Missy.
" Yes, yes," he said, in a tone which plainly proved that
he did not want to go, and took out a cigarette.
She looked at him in silence, with a questioning look,
and he felt ashamed. " To come into a house and give the
people the dumps," he thought about himself ; then, trying
to be amiable, said that he would go with pleasure if the
princess would admit him.
" Oh, yes ! Mamma will be pleased. You may smoke
there ; and Ivan Ivanovitch is also there."
The mistress of the house. Princess Sophia VasiUevna,
was a recumbent lady. It was the eighth year that, when
visitors were present, she lay in lace and ribbons, sur-
rounded with velvet, gilding, ivory, bronze, lacquer and
flowers, never going out, and only, as she put it, receiving
intimate friends, i.e., those who according to her idea stood
out from the common herd.
fri
m(
cai
sm
wh
tak
I
suii
her
To
talk
<<
wha
B
froM
((
trutl
t( ■
SI
stina
"]
not I
more
"J
face i
then,
thou£
He
in on
hurt
part \
to-da;
foIlo\\
and, above
her father's,
used to play
more amus-
isting," said
2ry affected
ite arose in
L and all the
lent and the
Korchagin,
s waistcoat,
an instantly
lother table
rinsed their
sting to no
ludoff, call-
:hing shows
that preoc-
k which she
ised it.
t about it,"
proved that
oning look,
,nd give the
then, trying
asure if the
may smoke
Vasilievna,
that, when
bbons, sur-
acquer and
it, receiving
r idea stood
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frie^'nds'be'causeTe tTltJST *h'^ T'"^- ^' ^^ese
mother had bfen an Tnt mate f^^?^^^^^^^^ ^^^"^^ his
cause it was desirable thSssv ThLd ml^y't '"' '"
sm'ant:J:^r:^ TnThl'^^^T^"^ '-^-^ the
who was in fromof' NekhSidoff^ln''^',"^-'^?"^' M'^^^'
taking hold of the back of r.m^n' ^^W^d resolutely, and
Mifsy was very anxious to ^! ^'''" ^^^''' ^^''^^ h''"-
suitable match and she alohw^' ^"''u' t"^ ^' ^^ ^^^ ^
herself to the though? to"h1Crbe'£:rsto^"h^^rf
;i fee some^nf h^a? h^V'e^ed?. ^t's^^^^ iP^emifns.
what IS the matter with you ? " "^^^ "^^'
frowU^rbt'ed "' ■""•'"5 '" "■= '- court, and
.ruS; ■w!"f„'u:L'lT„T'-' " ■'^ -'I. wishing ,o be
..ina^t™ rnroftfn'ore™ Sf- ">l' "-"-'°- Kt ob-
" Not now. P ease dn Tof i.J" "'' "'^"'^"y diseased,
not yet had time ful y to consider !? " ^'^ ^-"- ' ^'"^
more. •'^ consider it, and he blushed still
facetd sh/pustd^rk'thTthl' ^."'"^^'\'""^'^^'' ■" •>"
then, comelR She' shook he tad LTAo""'"^,' 'T^"
HrfSctett^a^hei^r r-^"' °" ^"^^^^^^^^^^^^
in order to keep back h"?ears ™H '■"™'"':='">' compressed
hurt her, and yet he knew th»t ?►. ^^' ""'''""'' "' •'^""S
part would mean disaster^. ! ,5 fe^'i weakness on hi!
to-day he fea?ed ,hfi ' ' ?"''' '""'' him to her. And
follov^ed he/?o"the pA^cS^Tc^L".'"^"'"^' """ ^"-"'
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missy's mother,
always alone tLt no nn^=^ nourishing dinner. (She had it
poetical function ) Bv h.r "^if "" ^'!; P^^f^^ing this un-
her coffee an3 she L. ^°V^'' '^°°^ ^ ^"^^11 table with
Sophia Vasifievna waH lonT^tl"^ ^ ^'''^'*''- P""<^«s
large black eJIs 'a"d longT^th'^anTs^r'n^;;' f'} '^^
young. i ^ "^^"' ^"<^ still pretended to be
Nekh[udoS\:^^^^^ "^^ b-"^ talked about,
the doctor sulgX her cou^^^^^^^ but when he saw
parted in the middle he no? nni' ' oily ghstening beard
about them, but fe t greard1si^,.?T"^^^^^
low. soft, easy chair nevf tn Q^ u ^"^^^ ^^ *^^ ^^ble, on a
soff, stir;inrhis cX A l^P^'^, Vasilievna. sat Kolo-
table. Misfy came in with NekM,',5 I'Queur stood on the
in the room. NekhludoflF, but did not remain
thenTome S'^'' s!f. %'^. <^f .yo".and drives you away
away, smiling .errily and stfppi„gToS'sslfo^„" ittS
Prin^esr ^CpS Vast"na'^"w1th 1!* 'T ^".^ ^^^'^ '" -^
naturally-acted smife sCing her^'finf'T^ ^"* ^^'•>'
splendid imitation of what hef own t^' '°"^t ^^^^^-^
hear that you have come from theTawCo^' ^''"- " ^
depressed. I think it must b^verv Mn^Z ^^'^ "^""^
a heart," she added in French. ^ ^ ^ P^'''°" ^'^^
'Yes, that is so," said Neichludoff " r\ i
one's own de oAe feels onlw • u ^"^ ^^^en feels
tomme, c c. vra^, she cried, as if struck byThe truth
other, had fin-
er. (She had it
)rming this un-
nall table with
tos. Princess
vith dark hair,
•etended to be
talked about.
It when he saw
stening beard
d the rumours
he table, on a
na, sat Kolo-
stood on the
id not remain
es you away,
>ff and Nekh-
hen she went
on the thick
id talk," said
d but very
ng teeth — a
e been. "I
s very much
person with
; often feels
judcre."
by the truth
HOW DO voa DO, DKAR KR.E.n? s, T DOW.X ANU T.
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Til 'tho^'wfth'' w».^^' T ^" '^^ ^^^'* °^ ^'■^^""y flattering
all those with whom she conversed. " Well and what of
your picture? It does interest me so. If I vv;re not such a
sad mvahd I should have been to see it long ago "she said
fals/nerofT;i,T.'" '' "P '" ^ekhludoff re^^Iifd drily The
iaisenei,s of her flattery seemed as evident to him to-dav as
put hirnself mto the right state to behave politely
Oh that w a pity ! Why, he has a real talent for art • I
have ,t from Repin's own lips/' she added, turning to kIio-
though': Ind froJneT' "''"^' ^' '^'"^ ^°- " ^^^^^"^-«
When she had convinced herself that Nekhltidoff was in
able nndT' '"^ '^'^' °"' ^°"'^ "^^ get him into an agree"
K6\olnff .l?"" ^^"^^'•^ation, Sophia Vasilievna turned to
f tone as if K^n^nff °P'"-°" °^ ^ "^ P'^^" ^he asked it n
Lrh wnr/.h^- °^ '• °Pl"'°" '^°"'^ ^^^'^e all doubts, and
each word of this opinion be worthy of being immorta ised
tha Td hrmfo'r^' '°'^"•*' ^^^ P'^y ^"^ ^^^ autC and
that led him to express his views on art. Princess Soohia
Vasihevna, while trying at the same time to defend the pbv
seemed impressed by the truth of his arguments efthe;
lf;r#/" i' T'\ ?■' ^' ^'''' "modifying her ?piS. ' Nekh'
was1oS;':'n b-efoif hi^^' '^' ^'^''^ ^^ "^ ^^ard wh^t
M Vi!r ;;'"# "°^ ^° ^°P^^a Vasilievna, now to Kolosoff
fhn^,t ^1^^°^,"°''"^ 'l""' "^^^^^^^ ^'^ "O'- «he cared any^hTng
about the play or each other, and that if they talked it waf
only to gratify the physical desire to move the muscles of
ha^ nrdrnn^ '°T' ^^''' ^^T^ ^^*^" ' ^"^ that K61osoff
having dr ink vodka, wine and liqueur, was a little tipsv
Not tipsy like the peasants who drink seldom, but like peo-'
pie to whom drinking wine has become a habit He dki
not reel about or talk nonsense, but he was in a state thlt
Totic"? "thaT"d'n?"'1.^"' self-satisfied. Nekhlu^doff al'o
noticed that during the conversation Princess Soohia
Vasihevna ept glancing uneasily at the window through
which a slanting ray of sunshine, which might vividly S
up her aged face, was beginning to creep up ^ ^
How true, she said in reference to some remark of
.Kolosoff's, touching the button of an electrrbellbv the
side of her couch. The doctor rose, and, like one who'is at
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home, left the room without saying anything. Sophia
VasiHevna followed him with her eyes and continued the
conversation.
" Please, Philip, draw these curtains," she said, pointing
to the window, when the handsome footman came in answer
to the bell. "No; whatever you may say, there is some
mysticism in him; without mysticism there can be no
poetry," she said, with one of her black eyes angrily follow-
ing the footman's movements as he was drawing the cur-
tains. "Without poetry, mysticism is superstition; with-
out mysticism, poetry is— prose," she continued, with a
sorrowful smile, still not losing sight of the footman and
the curtains. " Philip, not that curtain ; the one on the large
window," she exclaimed, in a suflfering tone. Sophia
Vasilievna was evidently pitying herself for having to make
the eflfort of saying these words; and, to soothe her feel-
ings, she raised to her lips a scented, smoking cigarette with
her jewel-bedecked fingers.
The broad-chested, muscular, handsome Philip bowed
slightly, as if begging pardon ; and stepping lightly across
the carpet with his broad-calved, strong legs, obediently
and silently went to the other window, and, looking at the
princess, carefully began to arrange the curtain so that not
a single ray dared fall on her. But again he did not satisfy
her, and again she had to interrupt the conversation about
mysticism, and correct in a martyred tone the unintelligent
Philip, who was tormenting her so pitilessly. For a mo-
ment a light flashed in Philip's eyes.
The devil take you ! What do you want ? ' was probably
what he said to himself," thought Nekhludofif, who had been
observing all this scene. But the strong, handsome Philip
at once managed to conceal the signs of his impatience, and
went on quietly carrying out the orders of the worn, weak,
false Sophia Vasilievna.
" Of course, there is a good deal of truth in Lombroso's
teaching," said KolosoiT, lolling back in the low chair and
looking at Sophia Vasilievna with sleepy eyes ; " but he over-
stepped the mark. Oh, yes."
" And you ? Do you believe in heredity ? " asked Sophia
Vasilievna, turning to NekhludoflF, whose silence annoyed
her.
" In heredity? " he asked. " No, I don't." At this mo-
ment his whole mind was taken up by strange images that in
g. Sophia
titinued the
id, pointing
e in answer
:re is some
can be no
Tily follow-
ig the cur-
tion ; with-
ed, with a
otman and
m the large
e. Sophia
ig to make
le her feel-
:arette with
ilip bowed
htly across
obediently
king at the
so that not
not satisfy
ition about
lintelHgent
For a mo-
s probably
o had been
3me Philip
tience, and
orn, weak,
^ombroso's
chair and
Lit he over-
:ed Sophia
i annoyed
t this mo-
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some unaccountable way rose up in his imagination. Bv the
side of this strong and handsome Philip he seemed at this
minu e to see the nude figure of Kolosoff as a.i artist s
model ; with his stomach like a melon, his bald head, and his
arms without muscle like pestles. In the same dim way the
limbs of Sophia \ asilievna, now covered with silks and vel-
vets, rose up in his mind as they must be in reality ; but this
mental picture was too horrid and he tried to drive it away
"r.In '/Ti ""'^c^^'''^^ '' '^^'^'"S ^o'- >'«"." she said.'
Go and find her. She wants to play a new piece by Grie^
to you; n IS most interesting." ^ ^
"She did not mean to play anything; the woman is simply
lying, for some reason or other," thought Nekhludoflf, rising
?rnged hand."^ ^^^'^ Vasilievna's transparent and bony!
nn?/i!o f ^^^^^^^"^ "^et him in the drawing-room, and at
once began, in French, as usual :
you" '^^ *^^ '^"*'^' °^ ^ juryman act depressingly upon
"Yes ; pardon me, I am in low spirits to-day, and have no
right to weary others by my presence." said Nekhliidoff.
Why are you m low spirits ? "
round"f°or h^h^ '' ^'"' ^'°"^ ^'^^'" ""' ''''> ^^^'"^
" Don't you remember how you used to say that we must
us"a1[f WhvV'"''' ^"'."u^^^ ^^"^' *^"*^^'- "-" ""eU
^J u L^° ^? V, "?* ^'"^ *° speak out now ? Don't you
ju^Tome'in '^- '^' '"^^' *"'"'"^ *° ^''''y' ^^^ ^^^
"We were playing a game then," said Nekhludoflf seri-
are^ ^^ IT T' *'" t^'^ ''''V'' ^ ^^"^^' ^ut in reah > we
c..''k^?"''° not correct yourself, but rather tell us why we are
so bad said Katerina Alexeevna, playing with her word!
and pretending not to notice how serious Nekhludoff v^as
Nothing IS worse than to confess to being in low spirits "
good^S." ' "'" '" ''' '"' ''^^^'°^^ ^" ^'^^'^^
Nekhludoff felt as a horse must feel when it is being
caressed to make ,t submit to having the bit put in its mouth
to"draw "'''''^' '"^ *°-^'^ ^' ^'^' ^''' *^^" ever nThned
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" Well, are you coming into my room ? We will try to
cheer you up."
He excused himself, saying he had to be at home, and
began takmg leave. Missy kept his hand longer than usual.
*' Remember that what is important to you is important
to your friends," she said. " Are you coming to-morrow ? "
''I hardly expect to," said Nekhludoff; and feeling
ashamed, without knowing whether for her or for himself,
he blushed and went away.
"What is it? Comme cela m'vttriguc," said Katerina
Alexeevna. " I must find it out. I suppose it is some affaire
d amour propre; il est trts susceptible, notre cher Mitia."
' Pltitot une affaire d'amour sale," Missy was going to say,
but stopped and looked down with a face from which all the
light had gone— a very different face from the one with
which she had looked at him. She would not mention to
Katerina Alexeeyna even, so vulgar a pun, but only said.
We all have our good and our bad days."
^^ "Is it possible that he, too, will deceive?" she thought;
after all that has happened it would be very bad of him."
If Missy had had to explain what she meant by " after all
that has happened," she could have said nothing definite, and
yet she knew that he had not only excited her hopes but had
almost given her a promise. No definite words had passed
between them— only looks and smiles and hints ; and yet she
considered him as her own, and to lose him would be verv
hard. ^
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,vill try to
lome, and
an usual,
important
norrow ? "
d feeling
r himself,
Katerina
me affaire
Mitia."
ng to say,
ich all the
one with
lention to
Duly said,
thought ;
if him."
" after all
Suite, and
s but had
id passed
id yet she
1 be very
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE AWAKENING.
"Shameful and stupid, horrid and shameful ! " Nekhlu-
doff kept saymg to himself, as he walked home along the
familiar streets The depression he had felt whilst spefkng
to Missy wou d not leave him. He felt that, look ng a i?
externally, as it were, he was in the right, for he had never
said anything to her that could be considered binding, never
H±ifT \" °^ri ''"' ^'^. ^"^^ ^hat in reality he had bound
?^lT .V?-^'\^f'^uP'°"'''"^ *° b^ he'-s- And yet to-dav he
felt with his whole being that he could not marry her "
Shameful and horrid, horrid and shameful!" he re-
peated o himself, with reference not only to his relations
Th me^i;r'^'e"mf n '"/'^ T' " ^^^^^^^'"^ '^ horrid and
hot,?/ " T '"""^'■^^' ^' he stepped into the porch of his
nouse. I am not g< ^ to have any supper," he said to his
manservant Corney. who followed him into the d'nk^g-room
where the cloth w.us laid for supper and tea. " You ml go^'
Yes, sir, said Corney, yet he did not go. but be^an
ckaring the supper off the table. Nekhludoff fooked at Cor-
ney with a feeling of ill-will. He wished to be left alone
TrilfT'^fu- '''"^^.^^^ '""^'y^^^y ^^« bothering htmin
sJpner hTn?. M -^.r^S ^"'""7 ^^^ ^°"^ awaylith the
St to S: ^^'^h "^°ff »"oved to the tea urn and was
about to make himself some tea, but hearing Affraohena
rol'7'' ^'.T'^'' ^' ^^"* '^"'•"^dl>' into ^the drawing-
room to avoid being seen by her, and shut the door after him
In this drawing-room his mother had died thre. months IT:
tore. On entering the room, in which two lamps with reflect-
hs mother'"""'"^' one lighting up his father's^and the other
bis mothers portrait, he remembered what his last relation-.
a"n?horrS°^^^I^^/^^ \^- ^"^ ^^ey also seemed shlS
^"..h^f,"^- He. remembered how, during the latter nerin.l
to himself that he wished it for lier sake, that she might be
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released from her suffering, but in reality he wished to be
released from the sight of her sufferings for his own sake.
Trying to recall a pleasant image of her, he went up to
look at her portrait, painted by a celebrated artist for 800
roubles. She was depicted in a very low-necked black vel-
vet dress. There was something very revolting and blas-
phemous in this representation of his mother as a half-nude
beauty. It was all the more disgusting because three months
ago, in this very room, lay this same woman, dried up to a
mummy. And he remembered how a few days before her
death she clasped his hand with her bony, discoloured fingers,
looked into his eyes, and said : " Do not judge me, Mitia, if I
have not done what I should," and how the tears came into
her eyes, grown pale with suffering.
" Ah, how horrid ! " he said to himself, looking up once
more at the half-naked woman, with the splendid marble
shoulders and arms, and the triumphant smile on her lips.
" Oh, how horrid ! " The bared shoulders of the portrait re-
minded him of another, a young woman, whom he had seen
exposed in the same way a few days before. It was Missy,
who had devised an excuse for calling him into her room just
as she was ready to go to a ball, so that he should see her in
her ball dress. It was with disgust that he remembered her
fine shoulders and arms. " And that father of hers, with his
doubtful past and his cruelties, and the bel-esprit her mother,,
with her doubtful reputation." All this disgusted him, and
also made him feel ashamed. " Shameful and horrid ; hor-
rid and shameful ! "
" No, no," he thought ; " freedom from all these false re-
lations with the Korchagins and Mary Vasilievna and the in-
heritance and from all the rest must be got. Oh, to Ijreathe
freely, to go abroad, to Rome and work at my picture ! He
remembered the doubts he had about his talent for art.
" Well, never mind ; only just to breathe freely. First Con-
stantinople, then Rome. Only just to get through with this
jury business, and arrange with the advocate first."
Then suddenly there arose in his mind an extremely vivid
picture of a prisoner with black, slightly-squinting eyes, and
how she began to cry when the last words of the prisoners
had been heard ; and he hurriedly put out his cigarette,
pressing it into the ash-pan, lit another, and began pacing up
and down the room. One after another the scenes he had
lived through with her rose in his mind. He recalled that
;hed to be
vn sake,
^ent up to
st for 800
black vel-
and bias-
half -nude
ee months
;d up to a
Defore her
ed fingers,
Mitia, if I
came into
g up once
id marble
1 her lips,
lortrait re-
; had seen
/as Missy,
room just
see her in
ibered her
s, with his
er mother,.
I him, and
rrid; hor-
e false re-
md the in-
to Ijreathe
ture ! He
t for art.
First Con-
i with this
mely vivid
: eyes, and
: prisoners
cigarette,
pacing up
les he had
:alled that
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last interview with her. He remembered the white dress
and blue sash, the early mass. " Why, I loved her, really
loved her with a good, pure love, that night ; I loved her even
before : yes, I loved her when I lived with my aunts the first
time and was writing my composition." And he remem-
bered himself as he had been then. A breath of that fresh-
ness, youth and fulness of life seemed to touch him, and he
grew painfully sad. The difference between what he had been
then and what he was now, was enormous— just as great, if
notgreaterthan thedifference between Katusha in church that
night, and the prostitute who had been carousing with the
merchant and whom they judged this morning. Then he was
free and fearless, and innumerable possibilities lay ready to
open before him ; now he felt himself caught in the meshes of
a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life, out of which he saw
no means of extricating himself even if he wished to, which
he hardly did. He remembered how proud he was at one
time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of
always speaking the truth, and really had been truthful;
and how he was now sunk deep in lies : in the most dreadful
of lies— lies considered as the truth by all who surrounded
him. And, as far as he could see, there was no way out of
these lies. He had sunk in the mire, got used to it, in-
dulged himself in it.
How was he to break off his relations with Mary Vasi-
hevna and her husband in such a way as to be able to look
him and his children in the eyes? How disentangle himself
trom Missy? How choose between the two opposites— the
recognition that holding land was unjust and the heritage
from his mother? How atone for his sin against Katusha?
inis last, at any rate, could not be left as it was. He could
not abandon a woman he had lovcd, and satisfy himself by
paying money to an advocate to save her from hard labour
in Siberia She had not even deserved hard labour. Atone
tor a fault by paying money? Had he not then, when he
gave her the money, thought he was atoning for his fault?
And he clearly recalled to mind that moment when, having
caught her up in the passage, he thrust the money into her
bib and ran away. " Oh, that money ! " he thought with the
same horror and disgust he had then felt. " Oh, dear ' oh
de^r how disgusting," he cried aloud as he had done then!
Unly a scoundrel, a knave, could do such a thing. And I—
1 am that knave, that scoundrel ! " He went on aloud •
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Mil.
But IS It possible? "—he stopped and stood still—" is it pos-
sible that I am really a scoundrel ? " . . . "Well, who but
thJnc? "1^"''^^?'^ ^""''^^- "^"^ ^'^^"' is this the only
.w. . i^^A?^ °"4 convicting himself. " Was not my con-
duc towards Mary Vasihevna and her husband base and dis-
gusting? And my position with regard to money? To use
riches considered by me unlawful on the plea that they are
inheri ed from my mother? And the whole of my idle de-
tes able life? And my conduct towards Katusha^o ci^own
all . Knave and scoundrel ! Let men judge me as they like,
1 can deceive them ; but myself I cannot deceive "
And, suddenly, he understood that the aversion he had
lately, and particularly to-day, felt for everybody— the
Prince and Sophia Vasilievna and Corney and Missy-was
an aversion for himself. And, strange to say, in this ac-
knowledgment of.his baseness there was something pa n?ul
yet joyful and quieting. ^ ^
More than once in Nekhludoff's life there had been what he
called a cleansing of the soul." By " cleansing of the soul "
he meant a state of mind in which, after a long period of slug-
gish inner ife a total cessation of its activity, he began fo
l^^'T.u^^ '•'' '"?!'^ *^^"* ^'^^ accumulated in h f soul!
and was the cause of the cessation of the true life. His sou
Nekhltoff".?^ "' ' ^f'^ ^'°^^- ^^''' ^"^h an awakening
me^n tn In '? ""^"^^ f"^^ ''"^"^ ^°^ ^^^^^^ which he
meant to follow forever after, wrote his diary, and began
afresh a life which he hoped never to change aga n '' Turn"
ing oyer a new leaf," he called it to himself in English But
each time the temptations of the world entrapped him and
without noticing it he fell again, often lower Zn before
hinTself rteV??'^' *'?'V" ^'' ^'^^ '^''^^ ^nd cleansed
himself. The first ime this happened was during the sum-
mer he spent with Ins aunts ; that was his most vittl and rap-
turous awakening, and its eflFects had lasted some time
Another awakening was when he gave up civil service aTd
joined the army at war time, ready to sacrifice hi life But
here the choking-up process was soon accomplished Then
an awakening came when he left the army and went abroad
devoting himself to art. aoroaa,
From that time until this day a long period had elaosed
without any cleansing, and therefore thi dlcord between he
demands of his conscience and the life he was leadinp- wp«
greater than it had ever been before. He wl horror-s^truck
I ;li!
— " is it pos-
ell, who but
is the only
not my con-
ase and dis-
y ? To use
lat they are
ny idle, de-
a to crown
IS they like,
ion he had
ybody — the
Aissy — was
in this ac-
ing painful
;en what he
f the soul "
od of slug-
e began to
n his soul,
. His soul
awakening
which he
and began
I. "Turn-
?lish. But
1 him, and
I before,
d cleansed
r the sum-
il and rap-
3me time,
ervice and
life. But
ed. Then
nt abroad,
id elapsed
!tween the
iding was
ror-struck
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^d^/dre^rtf?:^ ''^lef ST^^ I' "as so ,rea.
bility of getting cleanseT" hL . despaired of the possi-
fect yourfeif a?d tcomebet" r anr„ ",r "'f ^^°'' '° P^"-
whispercd the voice nf H,., \ "o""n8: has comeof it'-
pftryinganyt^oTe? Arerthecnll n """• r,;-^''^' '' 'ho use
is life," whispered Ae vZ Bift ,h'. 7"^'' ''■' "'''"'■ '"'''
which alone is true alone nnu.if, /'^'^ spiritual being,
ready awakened in NeSdoff ^ ' "'""^ """^'' had al-
it, , Enormous tho.^h tLe dfs'tanl ""I" "°' "'"' ''^"'™
wished to be and v?hat he wa, Lm'?' ''""■"" "''at he
confess eve^^i ' h „g Tnd w iTtel "" "l","^'^" '''""s me and
the truth, " he sa^'d'^esolu ^ " S "'^"^ '[,"*1,^"" "«
the truth, tell her I am a nrofl.vl? i '''^" te" Missy
and have only useless" «ps ° h?^'%'"i,??';",?' "'•''ry her,
lievn Oh tliPr« ;/ :. • ^ ^"^" ^ell Mary Vasi-
h'n. 1 .shall dispose of the infL;. ' ^-^^^ ^^^"^ deceiving
acknowledgethemth I Shan t k"^ '>'?^^ ^ ^^y ^' ^o
scoundrel tnd have sinned ?n ^^\' Katusha, that I am a
can to ease her lot Yes I v^lT'^f '. ^'''' "."^ ^'" ^^ ^» '
forgive me. ' ^ '^'" ^^^ ^^^r, and will ask her to
stopJedi-%villmam^r.Py^ ^« ^^'l^ren do." . . He
folded his hrndsTn f?om'o; hrbr^^-'' .^^ ^^°PM again
a httle child, lifted his eves and sai 1 Z^" "''^ '° ^° ^'^^"
Lord, help me, teach me comp .n ' ^"^^'J'^'^S some one :
me of all this abomfnation " ' '"' '"'''''" ""^ ^"^ Purify
clean'sf hTn^tanf Z?°he wast ''"' *.° ^"^^ ^^^ ^^ and
ready: the God wSn him h'Z'^^T^ ^Tu^"^ ^Wened al-
He felt himself Tne with H^m T.fT"^ ?'' consciousness,
the freedom, fulness Tnd Sv Af ?? therefore felt not only
righteousness. ' All all the^best hi"' ^"' "" '^^ P^^^'' of
capable of doing '^ *^^^ ^ "^^^ could do he felt
self goTd'an^td'tear?"^^^^^^^ -^'"^ ^» this to him-
joy at the awakeninrof ihf sntituarh' '^'' T'"^ ''''' ^^
bemg which hgrl been -.w ^,, ,"^' ^^'"S^ within him. the
because they we're tears of tenl '^'''^ ^'t'"' ^"^ ^ad ears
goodness. ^ ^^^'' ""^ tenderness to himself at his ovm
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He felt hot, and went to the window and opened it. The
window opened into a garden. It was a moonHt, quiet,
fr ^h night; a vehicle rattled past, and then all was still.
T:ie shadow of a tall poplar fell on the ground just opposite
the window, and all the intricate pattern of its bare branches
was clearly defined on the clean swept gravel. To the left
the roof of a coach-house shone white in the moonlight, in
front the black shadow of the garden wall was visible
through the tangled branches of the trees.
Nekhliidoflf gazed at the roof, the moonlit garden, and
the shadows of the poplar, and drank in the fresh, invig-
orating air.
" How delightful, how delightful ; oh, God, how delight-
ful ! " he said, meaning that which was going on in his soul.
ilili
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CHAPTER XXIX.
MASLOVA IN PRISON.
soldiers were eatine- hrearl o„/ u j u • , . ' ^"^" *^e
presence, her mo" tf Sedand sC°;i'i'F\" ''"
Se J'/tveaT'ltls'lh' ^'t' '° ?^' had 'passed U'
sentence Vrfirst she ?L,th,'''f T'r*" "■' ""'^'^Pected
she could no! fmagt he°eff as a'co„'iT-''%?K"^'''^^ =
could not believe that she heard X? ' '" ^'''5''' '""^
business-like faces of judfes and furv wL h '"^^ "i^ ''"■^'•
as if it were perfectiv m.f,„l , 'a^' ° ¥^'^ ""s news
dignan., and' proctt'ed"rdt to'thTSe'court^t^T t
was not ffu Itv FinrUno- tUri u wnoje Lourt that she
something Mtural and elDected=J^f T ''•^° '*'<'=" "»
altering Ltters, shfwa K?:st™ck rJi"!' a?f ""'^ °'
in despa r, knowine- that ^h^ rZ..^ u ■ ^^^^" *° ^^ep
the open door pretendin; t^^^^^^^ "lenlooking in at
business, or enterthrrofmS^^^ *° Pf' ^^"""^ °" '^^^
And then, forTme ,nTnown lefs'on The'f ^'^^ 'PP'-r '"
condemned her to hard Iphn„r .1 ' u ^'^ '^"'^ "^^" ^^d
of the charg/laid aSst W 'a. p"^^ t^^ ^^^ '""^^^nt
quieted doL tdirperllT;!.^ „tl,^tn "l^'' '"^ *'^"-
room, waitinp- to hp l^r? ko^V" -ci." P "^^ prisoners'
now-tobacci 'rnSMrg-d^Hnk^.^^^r ^e' Z^
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and Kartinkin found her when they were led into the same
room after being sentenced. Botchkova began at once to
scold her, and call her a " convict."
" Well ! What have you gained ? Justified yourself, have
you ? What you have deserved, that you've got. Out in
Siberia you'll give up your finery, no fear ! "
Maslova sat with her hands inside her sleeves, hanging
her head and looking in front of her at the dirty floor with-
out moving, only saying: "I don't bother you, so don't
you bother rr e. I don't bother you, do I ? " she repeated this
several times, and was silent again. She did brighten up a
little when Botchkova and Kartinkin were led away and an
attendant brought her three roubles.
" Are you Maslova? " he asked. " Here you are ; a lady
sent it you," he said, giving her the money.
"A lady— what lady?"
" You just take it. I'm not going to talk to you."
This money was sent by Kitaeva, the keeper of the house
in which she used to live. As she was leaving the court she
turned to the usher with the question whether she might
give Maslova a little mone>. The u--her said she might.
Having got permission, she remove J the three-buttoned
Swedish kid glove from her plump, white hand, and from
an elegant purse brought from the back folds of ler silk
skirt took a pile of coupons,* just cut off from the interest-
bearing papers which she had earned in her establishment,
chose one worth 2 roubles and 50 copecks, added two 20-
and one lo-copeck coins, an.' gave all this to the usher. The
usher called an attendant, and in his presence gave the
money.
" Blease to giflf it accurately," saM Carolina Albertovna
Kitaeva.
The attendant was hurt by her want of confidence, and
that was why he treated Maslova so brusquelv. Maslova
was glad of the money, because it could give her the only
thing she now desired. " If I could but get cigarettes and
take a whiflf!" she said to herself, and all her thoughts
centred on the one desire to smoke and drink. She longed
for spirits so that she tasted them and felt the strength they
would give her ; and she greedily breathed in the air when
the fumes of tobacco reached her from the door of a room
* In Russia coupons cut off intefest-bearing papers are ofteii used
as money.
the same
It once to
•self, have
. Out in
, hanging
loor with-
so don't
leated this
hten up a
ay and an
re; a lady
u."
the house
court she
he might
le might,
-buttoned
and from
f ler silk
; interest-
)lishment,
1 two 20-
sher. The
gave the
Ibertovna
2nce, and
Maslova
the only
ettes and
thoughts
le longed
igth they
air when
>f a room
often used
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that opened into the corridor R.,f .u u ^
or .he secretary, who sh?u,d have lfve„ ^he 'L^'1 \"^-
to go forgot about the prisoners whT tilt- " 5"' ''"
iJV^ fhr°oug"r.,°'t'ck' dtr b ^'t^^' '° ^°- -<> »-
man and the Tchoovash Then .t^f m'"?'"' "'^ Nijni
the Law Courts she ^^^ ,h.^', '" "'"l"" '^e entrance to
pt her two roli;1„rsome"l:ret.'er'%hfT,'''™V°
laughed, took the monev a nH ct^5 ^f " a „ -^ Tchoovash
'em." and really go?^ her^ihe rnll ' T ^" ''^^^' ^'^ ^^t
honestly returned^?he change Sht""^ '^'' "'^"'if"^^ ^"^
smoke on the way and w?th t. ^ "^^^ "°^ ^"^^ed to
continued her way 'to the Prison'' ZT""^ r'^^^^^'^' '^^
to the gate of the prison a hu^dr?d'^' ^"? ^'"^"^^^
had arrived by rail vvere being led in rr^'' ^^°
bearded, clean-shaxen old vonno d • ^^^ convicts,
some with their heads shaved^^n^^' Russians, foreigners,
on their feet, filleT?he amemn^^'^^^^ ^^^^ the chains
acid smell o oersnirafion P?^ "^'l^ «'',"'*' "^'^^ ^nd an
victs looked at her and som? '"^ ^^''°^^' ^" the con-
her as they passed ' '^'"^ "P ^« ^^' ^^^ brushed
"My resoecf^T""^-^ ^^^ °"^'" «^'d one.
her.^'^n^Ta'rk manS Tm^" ft ^T^^' -"»<-g at
and the back of hi" head cK .1'^''.'^' '?' ^^ ^'^ face
chains and catching her feet fn them '^''^' '""^'"^ ^'^^ ^^^^
braced her. ^ ^" t"^'"' spj'ang near and em-
dni^^^^' "^""'^ >'°" J^now your chum^ Cnn..
cion t give voursplf aiVc " ^i, • ^tium,'- Lome, come:
^^■-}^/n,X:i^ teeth and his eyes
specJ^r's Snt"'conrgrfroZV°l^^^°"^^^ ^^^ in-
shrank back and umped^"! T^^'"^"- '^^^ convict
Maslova. J"nipta away. The assistant assailed
"What are you here for? "
from"tLrLaTct?t! 'iTLl''' '^^ ^-" ^-"^^t back
not care to speak ' ^^ "^^^ '° ^''^^ that she did
of the
his cap
She has
--- returned .rum rne J
soldiers, coming forward
Law Courts, sir,- said ui,e
with his fingers lifted to
one
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" Well, hand her over to the chief warder. I won't have
this sort of thing."
" Yes, sir."
" Sokolofif, take her in ! " shouted the assistant inspector.
The chief warder came up, gave Maslova a slap on the
shoulder, and making a sign with his head for her to follow
led her into the corridor of the women's ward. There she
was searched, and as nothing prohibited was found on her
(she had hidden her box of cigarettes inside a roll) she was
led to the cell she had left in the morning.
\'it
i !
f
mv
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nspector.
p on the
to follow
'here she
d on her
I she was
CHAPTER XXX.
THE CELL.
warped and shrunk Onlofif.f'j'^'y f "=" '"="'«^ °f had
cured /«» w th a vvax?S «i L- ""T ■'"'"K ^ '^^'•''-~'-
everlastings hSngmTdo-^nhn^iT^n "u^"''," ''""<^'' °'
right therl was f dfrk sZ n^l, "i, ^^ •''^ ''°°'' 'o *he
stinking tub. The insn^rl? ^ 1 'IT °" "^ich stood a
wojnen^were locked u^^rTe 'ight"'^" "'^^ ^""^ '"e
thrTe'chS"'n°las'sr" ^^1' ^'''°"'- '"'^'•"'ing
women were Tine down I L""^^ ''?'"■ °"'>' '™ ^f 'hi
for theft, andt fc^otTho sSToTorhr? """"T^"
and who was arrested becan2cr,TK/ " "™^ '" "'«P
consumptive woman wa7nnf,.l^ ^u'^ ,"° P^^'Port- The
eyes he? cIoarfoWedTnder S "heaS" r^fn"'?'' t"^' 2^™
"iSm^S t' 7h"^'«' "e^ta^nd'^o To °ou'g7 "^^^
on buTc^ir e b^ow" "o°S "j;""-"' "''°'" ''='d nothing
of .he windo:Jrthe"co°n"lctl doZta^'thl^'r^an^ ""'
btrw"hf-haSrn^^:,'^'rj/-,f °" --rKr
up to their daughter Sh^ ^"sband with an axe for making
the cell, and found means o?^ '' ''• ' ^'"^ °^ *^^ ^^'"^n '"
with th;m. BesTde hlr sat annt^'"^ °" ^ ''"^^^ '" «Pi"ts
canvas sack. ThifwL%h?^rc!i-S^^^^
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prisoned for three months because she did not come out
with the flags to meet a train that was passing, and an ac-
cident had occurred. She was a short, snub-nosed woman,
with small, black eyes ; kind and talkative. -The third of the
women who were sewing was Theodosia, a quiet young
girl, white and rosy, very pretty, with bright child's eyes,
and long fair plaits which she wore twisted rownd her head.
She was in prison for attempting to poison lier husband.
She had done this immediately after her wedding (she had
been given in marriage without her consent at the age of
1 6) because her husband would give her no peace. But in
the eight months during which she had been let out on bail,
she had not only made it up with her husband, but come
to love him, so that when her trial came they were heart
and soul to one another. Although her husband, her
father-in-law, but especially her mother-in-law, who had
grown very fond of her, did all they could to get her ac-
quitted, she was sentenced to hard labour in Siberia. The
kind, merry, ever-smiling Theodosia had a place next Mas-
lova's on the shelf bed, and had grown so fond of her that
she took it upon herself as a duty to attend and wait on her.
Two other women were sitting without any work at the
other end of the shelf bedstead. One was a woman of about
40, with a pale, thin face, who once probably had been very
handsome. She sat with her baby at her thin, white breast.
The crime she had committed was that when a recruit was,
according to the peasants' view, unlawfully taken from their
village, and the people stopped the police ofificer and took
the recruit away from him, she (an aunt of the lad unlaw-
fully taken) was the first to catch hold of the bridle of the
horse on which he was being carried off. The other, who
sat doing nothing, was a kindly, grey-haired old woman,
hunchbacked and with a flat bosom. She sat behind the
stove on the bedshelf, and pretended to catch a fat four-
year-old boy, who ran backwards and forwards in front of
her, laughing gaily. This boy had only a little shirt on and
his hair was cut short. As he ran past the old woman he
kept repeating, " There, haven't caught me ! " This old
woman and her son were accused of incendiarism. She
bore her imprisonment with perfect cheerfulness, but was
concerned about her son, and chiefly about her " old man,"
who she feared would get into a terrible state with no one
fo wash for him. Besides these seven women, there were
II
come out
nd an ac-
d woman,
ird of the
!et young
ild's eyes,
her head.
husband.
(she had
he age of
;. But in
It on bail,
but come
ere heart
»and, her
who had
!t her ac-
:ria. The
lext Mas-
f her that
At on her.
rk at the
1 of about
been very
te breast.
:ruit was,
rom their
and took
id unlaw-
lle of the
ther, who
I woman,
2hind the
fat four-
1 front of
rt on and
roman he
This old
sm. She
but was
)ld man,"
h no one
lere were
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convicts whom uZZThTAZf ?"' ""'' shouting to the
and who were n^v'paTsing fh^U'll;: y'ard"'?f„r„r,r"'
They called her Khorosh-ivk» P t ,^u''"' '""ndiarism.
gre/chemise stood a thin mtraWe lo'^Jf " '''' *">'
woman, who was to be tried for coSment^fl.'Jr^r'
old i^irl T,/= ^ • •"*.°M woman and of a seven-vear-
one^o lea^r Lm wiS "IS^ "'"' ''".because she haZo
p ■
f
i,
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CHAPTER XXXI.
THE PRISONERS.
4
'i ;
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i'ffl
When the padlock rattled and the door opened to let
Maslova into the cell, all turned towards her. Even the
deacon's daughter stopped for a moment and looked at her
with lifted brows before resuming her steady striding up
and down.
Korableva stuck her needle into the brown sacking and
looked questioningly at Maslova through her t>pectacles.
" Eh, eh, deary me, so you have come back. And I felt
sure they'd acquit you. So you've got it? " She took ofif
her spectacles a'nd put her work down beside her on the
shelf bed.
" And here have I and the old lady been saying, ' Why,
it may well be they'll let her go free at once.' Why, it hap-
pens, ducky, they'll even give you a heap of money some-
times, that's sure," the watchman's wife began, in her sing-
ing voice : " Yes, we were wondering, * Why's she so
long?' And now just see what it is. Well, our guessing
was no use. The Lord willed otherwise," she went on in
musical tones.
" Is it possible ? Have they sentenced you ? " asked
Theodosia, with concern, looking at Maslova with her
bright blue, child-like eyes ; and her merry young face
changed as if she were going to cry.
Maslova did not answer, but went on to her place, the
second from the end, and sat down beside Korableva.
" Have you eaten anything?" said Theodosia, rising and
coming up to Maslova.
Maslova gave no reply, but putting the rolls on the bed-
stead, took ofT her dusty cloak, the kerchief ofif her curly
black head, and began pulling ofif her shoes. The old woman
who had been playing with the boy came up and stood in
front of Maslova. " Tz, tz, tz," she clicked with her tongue,
shaking her head pityingly. The boy also came up with her.
and, putting out his upper lip, stared with wide open eyes
ed to let
Even the
ed at her
iding up
king and
pectacles.
nd I felt
took off
;r on the
?, ' Why,
y, it hap-
ey some-
her sing-
5 she so
guessing
int on in
" asked
with her
ung face
)lace, the
iva.
ising and
the bed-
ner curly
d woman
stood in
r tongue,
with her,
)pen eyes
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she h anl hl"l°'f ''°'"'" """ "« '«'>' "me u^ Whe^
ongue an, met he'h^"-^'"*f ■"'"''"» °f 'he old\voma„'s
toTX": sTe ctidi Hrrbrer'.'r'fi^°" "'^ '°",
and she burst into sobs. ^ " quivered
said Ko?abIeva ™We,r'l' T- ^^1"§ ^ P^"?"" advocate ? "
TVT- 1 ; "'"■ what IS It ? Exile ' "
a ^foTdr ftes" or.r^"' """ '°°'. '^°"' -''■^^ "« roH
hair done ^rve^y h .^h liu tess' o";;?'?" °' ".'^"^ """
sK\t^ i; aV°kt€, fr^r-'^^^^^^^^^ -
Maslova'spuSngher^ n . vf^"^'? not approve of
greedii;' toYnifar^'^h' otcco smoke'^"'f;" 7'"«'-,'T!;
"" s;:r:;;; "owing out .": sit a„d r^bb i'nr"'"'''
muttered Kor/hl •'"""" ^°"^' *^ ""'^'^ ^ouAlayers'"
muttered Korableva, " sentenc ng the lass for nofhinl;" a.
h,s moment the sound of loud, coarse auglter came from
the women who vere ^tU] of /t,^ • j ^ ^i ^^"^^ irom
onf^itr';^'' ""^ --'Hi„g'?h\rx^^„c °";L.°'etero";si
I hpr^ now. duckv. «:n i>'c f,.,,^ " .:i-_ _.-, ., r^
gone to the dogs and they do what they pi
lease, and here we
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were guessing that you'd go free. Korableva says, ' She'll
go free.' I say, * No,' say I. ' No, dear, my heart tells me
they'll give it her.' And so it's turned out," she went on,
evidently listening with pleasure to her own voice.
The women who had been standing by the window now also
came up to Maslova, the convicts who had amused them
having gone away. The first to come up were the woman
imprisoned for illicit trade in spirits, and her little girl.
" Why such a hard sentence ? " asked the woman, sitting
down by Maslova and knitting fast.
" Why so hard ? Because there's no money. That's why I
Had there been money, and had a good lawyer that's up to
their tricks been hired, they'd have acquitted her, no fear,"
said Korableva. " There's what's-his-name— that hairy one
with the long nose. He'd bring you out clean from pitch,
mum, he would. Ah, if we'd only had him ! "
" Him, indeed," said Khoroshavka. " Why, he won't spit
at you for less than a thousand roubles."
*' Seems you've been born under an unlucky star," inter-
rupted the old woman who was imprisoned for incendiarism.
" Only think, to entice the lad's wife and lock him himself
up to feed vermin, and me, too, in my old days " she
began to retell her story for the hundredth time. " If it
isn't the beggar's staff it's the prison. Yes, the beggar's
staff and the prison don't wait for an invitation."
" Ah, it seems that's the way with all of them," said the
spirit trader; and after looking at her little girl she put
down her knitting, and, drawing the child between her
knees, began to search her head with deft fingers. " Why do
you sell spirits ? " she went on. " Why ? but what's one to
feed the children on ? "
These words brought back to Maslova's mind her craving
for drink.
" A little vodka," she said to Korableva, wiping the tears
with her sleeve and sobbing less frequently.
" All right, fork out," said Korableva.
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CHAPTER XXXII.
A PRISON QUARREL.
rolf I'ndTasfel Z'^cZl'nl'"''^ '''tfi''' ^^^ ^'^^en in a
cepted it, though shrcould nn,^°'^^^"^^- Korableva ac-
shavka, who kn^evv evemlW an/u 1^^' ''"f '"u^ '° ^^oro-
paper was worth 2 3es f^ rl 1'° \V^ ^^^^ ^^^ «"P oi
the ventilator, where she had hiHr?' then climbed up to
Seeing this, the women wh.= 1^" ^ ''"^" ^^^^ of z;o5;ta.
away.^ MeanwhirS^slotX^^^^ Z'''. ^"""^^f °^ ^^"^
and kerchief, got up olr.:ttT,l^^^^^^^^
from' t'hTsJdr; mug^'n^'a t^' J^^^^^^^^^' ^^"'"^ ^own
" but I'm afraid itTs Lit" cold " Vhfr '"'•^^^''^ ^" ^ '^S,
and tasted more of tin than nf 11 . a r 'S"'"^ ^^s quite cold
and began drinl^Jng h w'?h he'/o^ "P"^ Ji^'^u*'^ "^"^
are," she said, breaking off a hi/nf;., ^jr^shka, here you
4r Sofa ^^^^^^^^^^^ of .ma and a
shavka. These wi^rm^r. !, ^ *? ^^'^ ^nd to Khoro-
of the cell becausTthey harsoU°"'^^'^^^ '^' aristocracy
they possessed with th^ others '^' ^"^ '^^''^^ ^'^at
struck her most /J^how .if .k^ "^^^'^ ^"^ ^^^t had
wherever she went *fn f^!^ !^l "'^" ^ad followed her
said, and kept cSminl ntoX' ' -'^ "" l^^'^^^ ^^ ^-^' «he .
was there. ^ "*° ^^'^ prisoners' room while she
toXlome'^oLTJoTd''^'' '^*\^" *« J°°J^ at you
paper?' or somethinrbrrlT' '"' u^^^*"^ '« ^uch a
He just devours K^hisll^
head. " Regular artists '' ^ ' ^ '^''^' '^^^'"& ^er
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m
II
i''ji.
!•!:
:|l:f
. . ! J
" Yes, that's so," said the watchman's wife, and ran on in
her musical strain, " they're Hke flies after sugar,"'
" And here, too," Maslova interrupted her, " the same
thing. They tan do without anything else. But the likes of
them will go without bread sooner than miss that ! Hardly
had they brought me back when in comes a gang from the
railway. They pestered me so, I did not know how to rid
myself of them. Thanks to the assistant, he turned them
off. One bothered so, I hardly got away."
" What's he like ? " asked Khoroshavka.
" Dark, with moustaches."
" It must be him."
"Him— who?"
" Why, Schegloflf ; him as has just gone by."
" What's he, this Scheglofif ? "
"What, she don't know ScheglofT? Why, he ran twice
from Siberia. Now they've got him, but he'll run away.
The warders themselves are afraid of him," said Khoro-
shavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male
prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. " He'll
run away, that's flat."
" If he does go away you and I'll have to stay," said Kor-
ableva, turning to Maslova, " but you'd better tell us now
what the advocate says about petitioning. Now'- the time
to hand it in."
Maslova answered that she knew nothing about it.
At that moment the red-haired woman came up to the
" aristocracy " with both freckled hands in her thick hair,
scratching her head with her nails.
" I'll tell you all about it, Katerina," she began. " First
and foremost, you'll have to write down you're ''ssatisfied
with the sentence, then give notice to the Procu cur."
" What do you want here ? " said Korableva angrily ;
" smell the vodka, do you? Your chatter's not wanted. We
know wViat to do without your advice."
" No one's speaking to you ; what do you stick your nose
in for?"
" It's vodka you want ; that's why you come wriggling
yourself in here."
" Well, oflfer her some," said Maslova, always ready to
share anything she possessed with anybody.
" I'll ofifer her something."
" Come on then," said the red-haired one, advancing
I
ran on in
the same
lie likes of
! Hardly
; from the
low to rid
•ned them
ran twice
"un away,
d Khoro-
the male
1. "He'll
said Kor-
:11 us now
the time
t it.
up to the
hick hair,
ti. " First
issatisfied
tir."
angrily ;
nted. We
your nose
wrigg-ling
ready to
idvancing
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towards Korableva. "Ahi th.nL- t' r • ,
you?" "• *'""'^ Im afraid of such as
" Convict fright ! "
."|j^i^t's,herassaysit."
haired one''"*- ^°"^'^^-' Murderess !" screamed the red-
red^h^l^^Hn/rL^^^ but the
the chest. The red-hairlfl , ^^ orableva struck her in
waited for this^anci wi?;! =udTn" ''""^"^ °"'>^ '^ ^^ve
of Korableva's hair '^?h o^e u" ^'''^T'"' ,^""^'^t ^^°1^
struck her in the face KornKr ^""l '""'^^^ ^^^^ other
Maslova and KhorSvk^ caS%r''^V^'^ ^^"^' ^"^
by her arms, trying to null h^f . ^^ red-haired woman
woman's haiV ^4hVer hand on^tn^'' ' V-'^' ^'' ^° '^'' °Jd
Korableva, with her head bent tn '"'* • '^""^ ^'^' ««*.
out blows with -ne arm ^Iw • °"^ ''^^' ^^as dealing
woman's hand with heTteefh S H ''''^ '^^ ''^-''^-^^
crowded round, screaming and Trvn I' '''' °^ ^^'^ ^^°"^en
ers ; even the consump^vf on" came^ '^ 'T'^'^, '^' «^ht-
and watching the fi/ht Th^ km "^ ^""^ '*°°^ ^""ghing
together. The nofsf bro Jiht Jj ''''" """^ ^"^ buddled
jailer. The fightiW wom.^n ^ ''°"^^" ^^^'"der and a
bleva, taking out the ^?s of.r't -'P/'^*^^ ' ^"^ Kora^
the red-haired one hold ngle? torn'' . ^'°"^ ^'' ^''^' ^"^
her yellow breast, began ifud, t^compSr *°^'*'^'- °^^^
specL^Tj:;;;^:,^^ *V:f ;:; Warati;";-r„ tell the in-
Mind. get it all oui oft he ^ orT^Su'^'l ^ '^''^ '^P
you," said the warder " We"^! °' 'I "^'^ ^^ ^^e worse for
the'lS^^Vo^^ di^XT^t^i -^^ ^ '-^ ^^-e
other whose fault it all waf^Af 1??^'"'"^^ *° «"e an-
jailer left the cell the won. ^'^ *^'^ ^^''^e'" and the
g:oingtobed,andtheoMromanvfrn7,^r^^ ^"^ began
menced praying. woman went to the icon and com-
sud;I!;ryS.la^^^t\^sT;^^^^^^^^ ^^^^-^ —
the shelf beds, accomoanviW .? ^^-om the other end of
vile abuse. '^^co'npany ing every word with frightfully
i ':
IHf
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"Mind you don't get it again," Korableva replied, also
adding words of abuse, and both were quiet again.
" Had I not been stopped I'd have pulled your damned
eyes out," again began the red-haired one, and an answer
of the same kind followed from Korableva. Then again a
short interval and more abuse. But the intervals became
longer and longer, as when a thunder-cloud is passing, and
at last all was quiet.
A?l were in bed, some began to snore; and only the old
woman, who always prayed a long time, went on bowing
before the icoti and the deacon's daughter, who had got up
after the warder left, was pacing up and down the room
again. Maslova kept thinking that she was now a convict
condemned to hard labour, and had twice been reminded
of this— once by Botchkova and once by the red-haired
woman— and she could not reconcile herself to the thought.
Korableva, who lay next to her, turned over in her bed.
" There noyv," said Maslova in a low voice; " who would
have thought it? See what others do and get nothing
for it." ^ ^
" Never mind, girl. Peonle manage to live in Siberia.
As for you, you'll not be lost there either," Korableva said,
trying to comfort her.
" I know I'll not be lost ; still it is hard. It's not such a
fate I want— I, who am used to a comfortable life."
" Ah, one can't go against God," said Korableva, with a
sigh. " One can't, my dear."
'• I know, granny. Still, it's hard."
They were silent for a while.
"Do you hear that baggage?" whispered Korableva,
drawing Maslova's attention to a strange sound proceeding
from the other end of the room.
This sound was the smothered sobbing of the red-haired
woman. The red-haired woman was crying because she
had been abused and had not got any of the z'odka she
wanted so badly ; also because she remembered how all her
life she had been abused, mocked at, offended, beaten. Re-
membering this, she pitied herself, and, thinking no one
heard her, began crying as children cry sniffing with her
nose and swallowing the salt tears.
" I'm sorry for her," said Maslova.
"Of course one is sorry," said Korableva, "but she
shouldn't come bothering."
^plied, also
n.
•ur damned
an answer
len again a
als became
assing, and
nly the old
on bowing
had got up
I the room
V a convict
1 reminded
red-haired
le thought,
er bed.
who would
2t nothing
in Siberia,
ibleva said,
not such a
Fe."
:va, with a
Korableva,
proceeding
red-haired
!cause she
z'odka she
low all her
eaten. Re-
ig no one
2f with her
but she
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE LEAVEN AT WORK-NEKHLUDOFF's DOMESTIC CHANGES.
By a strange coincidence on tliat very mornin? lie received
from^r/hTarprrseT?"" "'* "°"^- " «°- '" ' -
fort"tn!'ellTr''K''"!,*^ P'\"' ''^ •'^'l '°™^d the day be-
>ore, to tell the husband everything, to make a clean bre/st nf
in Bu?;?' "" ''^'^'"^' '° S'- him anj kind of saSc
before And thTT^ "'if '"^'"" ^^'='" «= ^»«y ^ 'he Jay
Wn, wL. u 'j ' *'*P' "'■'y "■3'"= a man unhappy by telline
would teJ hL ° n r, ^"^ • ^"^'^ " "= "^^^ >" J ^-^ked hi
Zecelsary "' """ '° ^'^ P-^Po^^'^ «"" '^"— ° ' 'hat was
.„u?^-""'"^*' *''°'' "■"'h to Missy seemed iust as diffi
unS;>ken '°"?Thi?," ^i^\Katusha. nothing was to remain
unspoken I shall go to the prison and shall tell her everv
need^hrr 'f ,^' '° forgive me. And if n'd be-yes ^f
TU' '-} '^^" """""y ^^'■' he thought. ^ '
This idea, that he was re?.dy to sacrifice all nn mnrol
grounds, and marry her, again made him fe^lve-" tnTr
momin^'/"''^^- C°r^"i"g n^oney matters he resiveSthl
morning to arrange them in accord with his convicdon? tha
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s-onlffi'Ji ° V^'''"^'"^ P'T'^y ^^'^ unlawful. Even if he
stinS^^V °"^'"°"^ *^^^^" "P ^:verything, h: would
still do what he could, not deceiving hii,,3elf .-.r others
w^fh^i^ ^ Agraphena Petrovna camr in. he lold -. r
with more firmness than he thought himself capable of l.at
he r,o longer needed this lodging nor hci services. There
larJZ ^ ^^"* ""^^^^tanding that he was keeping up so
large and expense, e an e..*nl i:shment because he was think-
JSfretrf 'a? "^I""'" •'''' ^r^^ "^ ^' the We had
"I tlKnik you v^ry much. AgrapliJna Petrovna, for all
,.our care for me, but I no longer require so large a house
nor sc many se, .ants If you wish to help me, befo good as
to setre about ihe things, put them away as it usedTo be
do:.> ,lur:ng mamma's life, and when Natasha comes she
v^th s.., to e^ erythmg." Natasha was NekhludoVs "ster
/.graphend Petrovna shook her head "See about ih^
things? Why, they'll be required agau " she s^^d ' '''
No, they won t, Agraphena Petr6vr;i; I assure vou thev
Tak n/of f ^' ri^^^^^^"^°^' '" ^^'^^^ to what the
afso Sft T i.'fl ^'^\^^^ expressed. " Please tell Corney
noJuXr'ntdoTh'im." '"° "°"*'^^' ^'^''' ^"^ ^^^" ^-'
A '■ ^^lt-^,?'V' ^'P'^''' Ivanovitch, that you should think of
doing this/ she said. " Well, supposing you go abroad stU
you'll require a place of residence again." ^ '
^ You are mistaken in your thoughts, Agraphena Pe-
trovna ; I am not going abroad. If I go on a jourSevJt wHl
be to quite a different place." He suddenly blushed very red
m^sTbe'told!"''" '"' '^ ^'°"^'^^ ""° ^'^-^^ --'body
t.r*M^ ''^S ^^""^"^^ ^""^ important thing happened to me yes-
tlsha^"" ^°" remember my Aunt Mary Ivanovna's Ka-
". w 'n^^l*. ^b^' ^ *^"8^h^ be'' Jiow to sew."
the jury." "^^^ ^'"'^ '" ^^e Court and I was on
•• w2Il' ^""'^l f^^^ ^ P'^y- " ^"^^ A- aphena Petrovna.
What was she being tried for?" ""vud. .
'•Murder; and it is I have dor- it a'/,"
Wei, ow this is very strange ; h j.v ould you do it all ?"
Even if he
f, hi wouid
ier:5.
th so r .ndi
le lold Ukt,
ble of, cJ.at
es. There
ping up so
was th ink-
house had,
irna looked
na, for all
?e a house
so good as
used to be
comes she
's sister,
about the
1.
e you they
• what the
;1I Corney
shall have
J think of
)road, still
hena Pe-
ley, it will
very red.
everybody
o me yes-
i^na's Ka-
I was on
Petrovna.
o it all?"
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all'm^'plin^s/' '^'' '^"'' ""^ '' ^" ' ^"'^ '' '' *^"^ '^'^' ^as altered
u ^^^^ difference can it make to you ? "
nn . ^^s^^'fff ence: that I, being the cause of her getting
""""Xu'^^ Pa.tl^' must do all I can ?o help her." ^ ^
1 hat IS just according to your own good pleasure • vou
are not particularly in fault there. It ha§.ens ^trevery one
ten '?^r :. i?'°" •'^^''t^' '" F'' ^"^°°*^^^ °ver and forgot^
pe f o ?^ - coS 't:^SnJ''l ht^Xlly
'' Mine ! that's why I want to put it riffht "
It IS hard to put right."
yourlelf then7wiyft"n'- ^."/ '^ ^'^^ ^'' *^'"^^"^ ^^out
wish " ^°" *''^^' ^' "'^"^"'^ expressed the
fully 7e^ed 'h!"ti"^H^''"'^T''^^- ^ ^^^^ b^^" «o bounti-
luiiy treated by the dear defunct, that I desire nothinp-
Lisenka" (her married niece) " has been invitW me and^T
shall go to her when I am not wanted any bngfr Onh it
q P|ty you should take this so to heart ; it\app?ns to ever;.
hJi^^^l'} u-° ,"°,^ t^^"^ s°- And I still beg that vou will
5o n^ V'' '^'' ^°^?'r^ ^"^ P"^ ^^^y the thin|sA/d please
t an^oulTa^vTdre'"'"^- ' ^"^ ^-^' ^^^ ^'^^"^ ^^ ^0"
were no longer disgusting to him ; on the^conSv L felt ^
kmdly respect for Agraphena Pet;6vna. anS for Forney
He would have hked to go and confess to Corn6y also but
h'a7n;^t?h^r\^;^[.rto^T""^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^
surprised what a different being he felt himself to he X
marnage with Missy, which only yeste day se Jed so prib
able, appeared quite impossible now. The davTefore h? Mt
ir^/;;,^'™ 1° tr:-^f "^f" ?° fubtsVatTe wo!*
oni7o^ LpyS, ,^t^r„ S^b ^fiLtTe' irnr^.^
she only knew what I am, nothin/would Induce her to r"
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sented to .arry .e, couM I be. t^:s:;Z;l^l^l
peace, knowing that the other was here in prison and woufd
to-day or to-morrow be taken to Siberia witTa gang of ot
p oners, while I accepted congratulations and made calls
}Mth my young wife; or while I count the votes at the mee
jngsjor and against the motion brought forward bvthe^"Si
mentTvli?h hTr'- ^t'''"';.""^ afterwards make appofnt-'
ments with his wife (how abominable!) or while I continue
LhT/^'t?' ."?>• Pcture, which will certainly never ^etSn
shed? Besides, I have no business to was^e time on such
things I can do nothing of the kind now/' he continued to
himself, rejoicing at the change he felt within himself "The
tWng.'" ■ • ■ ^° ^""^ '^^ ^^' and tell her every-
And vvhen he pictured to himself how he would see her
and tel her all confess his sin to her, and teirher that he
would do all, in his power to atone for h s sin, he was touched
at his own goodness, and the tears came to 1 is eyes
Lult with her
1 if she con-
appy, but at
1, and would
ang of other
I made calls
at the meet-
l bythe rural
'e Noblesse,
ike appoint-
e I continue
ver get fin-
me on such
:ontinued to
nself. "The
ut his deci-
1 her every-
ild see her,
her that he
i^as touched
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE ABSURDITY OF LAW— REFLECTIONS OF A JURYMAN.
On coming into the Law Courts Nekhludoff met the usher
t VT^'^\ "^° T'^V '"'"^'^ ^° ^^^ much to be pittd
in the corridor, and asked him where those prisoners who
had been sentenced were kept, and to whom on? had to appl?
for permission to visit them. The usher told him hat the
condemned prisoners were kept in different places an 1 that
until they received their sentence in its final form the ner
TrlZV' "'''' '^^? ^^P^"^^^ °" the president ^'' I'll cSm^
session ^Th ""^''1' ""-^ '^^' ^^^ '^ ^he president after t^e
ses on ! ^J'^^'^'^'^'l^'^^^^^^^.^^re at present. After the
session I And now please come in ; we are going to com-
Nekhludoff thanked the usher for his kindness, and went
oom^L^n^r'"' '■°°'"- ^' h^ ^^« approaching the
room the other jurymen were ust leaving it to go info tl e
NlM'^fVA"^ "^^^ ^.^ "^^''y ^' th^ day before, and greeted
Nekhludoff like an old friend. And to-day Peter Gerfsimo
vitch did not arouse any unpleasant feelings in NekhlWofF
hLe'liS tn"iilf"1,';^ '""^ ^^"^^*^'-- Nekhludoff wouM
nave liked to tell all the jurymen about his relations tn
yesterday's prisoner. "By rights," he thought "louVh^
guilt " ^ "P ^''*''^^^ ^"""^ '^^ *"^' and^disclosed ?^ y
He entered the court with the other jurymen and wit
""^I'^i thp same procedure as the day before
1 he judges are coming," was again proclaimed and
again three men, with embroidered collars, ascended the
platform and there was the same settling of he jurv on the
high-backed chairs, the same gendarmfs, the lame por-
traits, tuc ■ ame pnest, and Nekhludoff felt that though he
knew V .UL he ought to do, he could not interrupt all this
solemmty. The preparations for the trials were ju the
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the h,; J ^^ fr ^^^°?' ^,^^^Pt>"g that the swearing in of
', "of" President's address to tlieni were onTittcd.
iue c... ue:ore the Court this day was one of burelan-
Tlie prisoner, guarded by two gendarmes with i?ak?d
feTsalirfaoe'^'l' "-T^-^-'^tedld of .o^wUh a brood-
he DrkonL'fH^i^^ ^''y "'°"^'- ^^ «^t alone in
Jl.h^ "*l '^°'^^- ^^'^ ^"^y ^^s accused of having to-
gether with a com- . . , , ., ,,ken the lock of a shed 'and
stolen several old mats valued at 3 roubles* and 67 copecks
According to the indictment, a policeman had stopped ?W.'
boy as he was passing with his companion, who wa? carrv-
ing the mats on his shoulder. The boy and his companT^n
confessed at once, and were both imprisoned. ThlToy's
companion a locksmith, died in prison, and so the boy was
being tried alone. The old mats wer; lying on the taU
as the objects of material evidence. The buiess was con!
ducted just m the same manner as the day before, with ?he
whole armoury of evidence, proofs, witnesses, swear ng in
questions, experts, and cross-examinations. In answer to
every question put to Mm by the president, th. prosecutor
or the advocate, the policeman (one of the witnesses) ri
yanably ejected the words : '• Just so," or " Can't tS" Yet
u) spite of his being stupefied, and rendered a mere machine
by military discipline, his reluctance to speak about he
arrest of this prisoner was evident. Another vv?tnes an
old house proprietor, and owner of the mats, evidently a
rich o d man, when asked whether the mats were h"s re-
luctantly identiried them as sucii. When the oubHc orolp
cutor asked him what h meant to do with thes^e mSat
use h. were o him, e got a.gry, and answered : "The
devil taic those mats; I don't want them at all. .lad I
known there would be all this bother about them I should
acl 1 .rr.^" " l?'^^"^ ■''' *^^"^' ^"^ ^°"ld rather h^ve
added a ten-rouble not. or two to them, only no^ to be
dragged here and pestered xvith questions. I have spent a
lot omsz.>ostchtks. Besid., lam not well. I have been "uf!
ering from rheum- ^sm icr the last seven ye.rs." t Tas
thus the witness spc ,
The ac used him If .fessed everything, and looking-
ltZ\ ?7i;^^^' '^^S ^V^"^ '^'' ''' ^^'^^ht. related hov?
It had all happened. Still the public prosecutor, drawing
10^ lopecks"^'" '' """"^ ^ ""'' °"" '^° '^'"'"»«' «"d contains
aring in of
e omitted.
)f burglary,
vith naked
th a blood-
at alone in
having, to-
i shed and
)7 copecks,
opped thi.;
was carry-
companion
The boy's
le boy was
1 the' table
5 was con-
t, with the
/^earing in,
answer to
rosecutor,
lesses) in-
tell." Yet,
e marhine
aboui the
itness, an
/idently a
•e his, re-
lic prose-
lats, what
;d : " The
. ifad I
I should
her have
lo*^ to be
e spent a
been suf-
It was
looking
ited how
drawing
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up his shoulders as he had done the day before, asked subtle
questions calculated to catch a cunning criminaf
In his speech he proved that the theft had been com
a"id tt.T \^^^S"gf ^ce. and a lock had been broke" •
and that the boy, therefore, deserved a heavy punishment'
The advocate appointed by the Court proved that Keft
tre'c"r^r""'"'^ ^'^" ^ dwelling-plice. and that hough
he crime was a serious one, the prisoner was not so ve?v
dangerous to society as the prosecutor stated. The pres7
dent assumed the role of absolute neutrality in th' ^same
way as he had done on the previous day, and inmressed on
n^'"?hen''cr'"' ^'^'^ ^" ^"^.^^ ^"^' ^^"'^ no! felp know"
ng. Then came an ' erval, ust as the dav before and
they smoked; and aga„i the usher called out'" The fud "es
?rvinr;o"t '"^ ' V^' '^"^l ^^'^ '^' *^° gendarnies sa
th'eS^naV^ed wLp^nt' '^"^ ^'"^^^"'"^ ^^^ P"-"- -*^
bv'ws father'fJT. 1^°^'^. '^"' '^'' ^°>^ ^^« apprenticed
vears ThU k^\"^ l^^^^'^' '''^^'^ ^^ remained five
S ; 7^u ^^Y u ^ .^^^ ^^^" discharged by the owner
after a strike and, having lost his place, he wandered abSut
tiie town without any work, drinkhig all he possessed Tn
a trakttr* he met another like himfelf . who lad losi h^s
place before the prisoner had, a locksmith by trad and a
t n?^\^/'^'^^\' V^°^^ *^«' I'^th drunk broke the
Ic of a shed and took the first thing they happened to av
ha, on. They confessed all and we?e pu^ in pnson 'vhere
the locksnnth died while awaiting the trial. The bo was
c"SrmTs?brp'ro?:cre^^'^°"^ ---- '^^ ^^^
.1- ^^^^^ -^^ dangerous a creature as yesterdavV mlnnt "
fo'r°el?m'''' tI''^"^' 'f "'"^ ^° ^" thaTw/'^oinctt-
tore him They are dangerous, and we who jun .. them
? I, a rake, an adulterer, a deceiver. We are nbt
dangerous. But, even supposing that this boy is the mo?t
dangerous of all that are here in the cour , wha should be
cZht?'"uirrV\r^ ^°'"^ °^ ^^^^ when hets been
caught? It IS clear that he is not an exceptional evil-doer
but a most ordinary boy ; every one sees it-and thalhe has
become what he is simply because he got into circurS
stances that rrppf^ c,.«^h -h -"— - 1 'U ' circum-
„...n vnaia<.ic:o, and, ihereiore, to pre-
* Cheap restaurant.
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c^a'e"hL^l:l:™";.?^?_-™■;f. 'h. circumstances .ha.
crea.e,heseu„4„u„a,fbiy™';f.lf/re'
But what do we do? We
away with.
forced on him in T ""^^^^^1°"'^. "seless labour is
snared hv t i r i^'"!^^"^ ^^ others weakened and en-
snared by the hves they have led. And then we send hfm
selves,andnothingmorecanbeexDectpdof„= ^^^'^^^^ ^"'^
and hstenmg to the diflFerent intonations of the advocates'
?.lf ..T/ '; '"^ president's voices, and lookinlat thei;
effort .f-"^'"^ ^'''"'"'- "^"d how much and wha hard
effort this pretence requires," continued NekhludTff in his
mind, glancing round the enormous room the nortr;„>l
feanTn-'r^'- ""^^^^-u"?^' ^^^ ^^'^^ war'and la^rge win-'
bu din^ anTtiirsfilfrn'r"'' *',^ tremendous size^ofX
whnlpnf'fhfc still more ponderous dimensions of the
whole of this organisation, with its army of officials scribes
Tusl" wh^'re""^'"' "°' ?'^ ^" *h^' place, but' alov?;
S iooneneedr ^?F'' ^°- ""'"'•^'"^^ °" ^^'^ ^°"^edy
of';tsTeZ7s"heping'rsT"cfst"a:v:?r?H""'""'^^'^
only regard as hand's fndTodieT rTqu r^;dt;"us 1\ "o^u"
n,TvoPT' ^"^/°"^fo^t- Had some^one Ihanced o take
pi y on him and given some help at the time when povertv
M 1 SK^^'^i't"'^ h'"' *° ^°^"' 't might have been sufficient "
Nekhludoff thought, looking at the boy's piteous face "Or
■even later, when, after t^ h^ur-' -vnrl- t^'^u - . V
™s going .0 ,he p„b,ic-ho„se;",ed X ^ ^^^'c^^io!!:.
stances that
vay with,
d who hap-
e thousands
m to prison,
s labour is
ed and en-
e send him,
le Irkoutsk
^d of men.
is in which
■y, we sup-
These es-
workshops,
tiot destroy
we support
)t one, but
id imagine
arded our-
ave we not
emment?"
and vivid-
le colonel,
idvocates',
g at their
what hard
loff in his
portraits,
large win-
lize of the
»ns of the
s, scribes,
It all over
3 comedy
lundredth
we now
s for our
cl to take
1 poverty
efficient,"
ice. "Or
ctory, he
ipanions.
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had some one then come and said ' DnnV rr^ \t' ■
not right,' he would not have gone nor ^oMnVnK"'? = '' *'
and would not have done any wrong ^°' '"'° ^"^ ^">'^'
he gits nto some sort „T;.W'"«^^'?^''^'^'>' ^''°'" '"w".
educated people rich or .^^f^T ,!\ "U' ^^' "" "' "S
dressed in^Zd' clo.herard1r„%rm's "ln"a 'T":,";
apartment, to mock this unfortunate brother ^? 'P'","''"'
we ourselves have ruined °' ""^ "'''°"'
t ■
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THE PROCUREUR— NEKHLUDOFF REFUSES TO SERVE.
During an interval Nekhludoff got up and went out into
the corridor with the intention of not returning to The
court. Let them do what they liked with him he could
take no more part in this awful and horrid tomfoolery.
Having inquired where the Procureur's cabinet was he
went straight to him. The attendant did not wish to let
him in saying that the Procureur was busy biTt Nekht
by an'officlV H^e ri hTV*" *'^ '°°^' "^'^^ "^^ -- -"t
Dy an otticiah He asked to be announced to the Procureur
SfattTo^a'e'^ '"^ '"' ''' ^ -^^ in.por.Xr:
nffl^J'i*'^^^ ^""^ ^T? .^^°'^^' ^^'■^ "^ assistance to him. The
wfs wT^T.'^p''" *^ '^' Procureur, and NekWudoff
was let in. The Procureur met him standing evidently
TnTd^llttr""^"^^ -''' -''-' Nekfrnro^dt
;; What is it you want? " the Procureur asked, severely
1 am on the jury; my name is NekhltidoflF, and it is ab-
solutely necessary for me to see the prisoner Mlslova"
Nekhludoflf said, quickly and resolutely.^blushing and fTel
InlulnceoU^^i^e'^"^ ^ step which would havfa deci^v'e
h J^^.^T"''^"'; v^' ^ '^°'^' ^^'•'^ "^an, with short, grizzlv
hair, quick, sparkling eyes, and a thick beard cut close on
his projecting lower jaw.
"Maslova? Yes, of course, I know. She was accused
of poisoning," the Procureur said, quietly. '•• Bu why do
you want to see her?" And then,\s if wishing To tone
down his question, he added, " I cannot give you the per-
mission without knowing why you require it " ^
« vl!? " ''^ }\ ^f a particularly important reason."
lesr said the Procureur, and, liftine- hi«5 «-vpc Ur,\.^A
attentively at Nekhludoff. "Has her cai beeThe °?^^
nor? "-
•" -'[• rr«ifi[iiJ.iiW
iM
SERVE.
:nt out into
ing to the
I, he could
)lery.
let was he
rvish to let
It Nekhlu-
le was met
Procureur,
rtant com-
him. The
Jekhludoff
evidently
udoff de-
S'^verely.
d it is ab-
Maslova,"
, and feel"
a decisive
rt, grizzly
: close on
5 accused
t why do
X to tone
1 the per-
s, looked
heard or
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innocent'''' ^"'"^ '''''''^''' ^"^ ""J"^^^^ sentenced; she is
his ^wlSinVlThTil'^T r"*'^'" Nekhludcff said,
ing. ''^^""'""S as he felt the decisive moment approach-
withTot"ag?faS"' "'' '"^ ^™"'^""-' '«'»8 '- brows
w.;;te/dtV7oi,):\?c:i&8''' '- - *^ -*'°n
j^^_^ All the same, I cannot see what it has to do with visiting
.enJchanged Ttl't ""to fol^ °^ "V" S^'""? *e sen-
NekhhUof? touched o?el?'[,v hi7'„''"''~'"/"^ ''"•" '^''^
same time pleased to seeX S, \°"" '^'?"'''"='' ^"d a' «he
<rnr<;„r. ^ ""' ^*f'^<^' ''« Produced on the Pro-
of the KrasLpeS ?™ Udmin s'rS/""hf ' I T""''-'.
" ^mnZ^r^r' - °»' of the" mln.?"'" ^°"^ "■^''
" Th. A •"•" ',^" »•« permission ? "
n.i.ta„''ce5i™;fr"T'aJrsel,"'" ^"' >'°" =■" °^<'" °' =•<'-
"pSsTd'o™'"'^"^' "' ^™-' -<■ b^*^- to write.
NekhliWoff continued to stand
" I must »kn state tteT '°°'<«<',"'"ously at him.
sions." ■ ■" "'^ *^' ^ '=™ »° '""ger take part in the ses-
i
i i f,'.
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*-t'.' ^^K ^^^^ ^}^^ Procurcur, with the same scarcely nerren
tibe smile, as if to show that this kmd of SaUon was
well known to him and belonged to the amusing sort " Yes
but you wil certainly understand that I, aspfocJLr ca":
not agree with you on this point. Therefore T q1.o,iM^'/^
t'io" '' ?£^^*° the Court, ^vhich wiU cons d'e youfdeda""
tion, and find it valid or not valid, and in the latter case wHl
impose a fine. Apply, then, to the Court '' '"
else," l^fel^Sff ^^^^'''' ^"^ ^^^" ^PP'>' "-here
Well, then, good-afternoon," said the Procureur bowing
his head, evidently anxious to be rid of thiVstrrnge ;is?tr^
Who wa, that you had here ? " asked one of the members
?oom ' '' ^' '"''''^' J"^* ^^''' Nekhltidoff Teethe
d^^J^'l''^^^' ^'°" ^"°^' the same that used to make all
ng lu^Tfa^c'vf h"""*^ at the Krasnopersk rurTrmeel-
onfrs iCrl ty '' °" \^^ ■'"'■y' ^"^ ^"long the pris-
whn^ i ? T""^" °^ ^""^ sentenced to penal servitude
You don t mean to say so " ^
excit'ementr '* '^ *°'' "" ^"^ '" ^-^ ^ ^^-"^e state of
^ J There is something abnormal in the young men of to-
!! v^' ^^'^ he is not so verv voung "
He carries^fl ^^ K '''^""^ -^^"^ ^^'"^"s Tvoshenka was.
taLd whhout en/" ' ""'^"^ °"^ ^"^^ ^^ *^'^^^ -^
'' Oh. that kind of people should be simplv stoooed nr th^v
will become real obstructionists." ^ ^ stopped, or they
e the Court,
Dt only use-
:ely percep-
iration was
ort. "Yes,
ureur, can-
ould advise
'ur declara-
tr case will
V nowhere
ur, bowing
;e visitor,
e members
)ff left the
o make all
ural meet-
g" the pris-
servitude,
larry her."
X^ state of
nen of to-
mka was.
liked and
!d, or they
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
NEKHLUDOFF ENDEAVOURS TO VISIT
MASf.GVA.
From the Prociireur Nekhiudoff went straif^hf \n tV.^ r...
lound there, and the inspector explained to NekhhiHnff th^i
m:«°Zr^^'' '= '" *"= o,d''te„por^?y'';S,'n".''°LS
T^' j^^^^""^ Maslova was there.
pecor'^ A. l"'™"""-"- N^Wudoff went to seeThe in-'
" TeTl him hl"^ ^'V- ^"^'^'^ ^^"-^^"t ^^^"t away,
ino- \lru?A^ u "°^ '" ^"^ ^o"'t be to-day; he is out visit
tng What do they come bothering for ? "came the so md"
' Papa IS not in." a pale girl with crimped hair said,
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crossly, coming out into the ante-room, but, seeing a youne
man m a good coat, she softened. b j s
'] Come in, please. . . . What is it you want ? "
^^ 1 want to see a prisoner in this prison."
I A poHtical one, I suppose ? " .
Pro ^°' "°' ^ political one. I have a permission from the
" ^f}^'J don't know, and papa is out ; but come in,
please she said, agam, " or else speak to the assistant. He
is in the office at present ; apply there. What is your name ? "
I thank you, said Nekhludoflf, without answering her
question, and went out. *
The door was not yet closed after him when the same
hvely tones recommenced. In the courtyard Nekhludoflf
met an officer with bristly moustaches, and asked for the
. assistant-inspector. It was the assistant himself. He looked
at the order of admittance, but said that he could not decide
to let him in with a pass for the preliminary prison. Besides
It was too late. " Please to come again^to-morrow. To-'
morrow, at lo, everybody is allowed to go in. Come then,
and the inspector himself will be at home. Then you can
have the intervievv either in the common room or, if the in-
spector allows it, in the office."
_ And so Nekhludoflf did not succeed in getting an inf^r-
view that day and returned home. As he went along the
streets excited at the idea of meeting her, he no longer
thought about the Law Courts, but recalled his conversations
^'S, r ^^^^^^^"^ and the inspector's assistant
AUA^'M^^^ H^ ^^"^ ^^^"^ seeking an interview with her
and had told the Procureur, and had been in two prisons, so
excited him chat it was long before he could calm down.
When he got home he at once fetched out his diary, that had
ong remained untouched, read a few sentences out of it. and
then wrote as follows :
"a Ft?** *^° r^" ^ ^^^^ "°^ w"tten anything in my diarv
and thought I never should return to this childishness. Yet
it is not childishness, but converse with my own self with
hl'f 't 1 JTu '^'^ "^^'"^ ^'^"^ '" ^^^'•y nian- All this time
that 1 slept there was no one for me to converse with I
was awakened by an extraordinary event on the 28th of
April, ,n the Law Court, when I was on the jurv. I saw her
m the prisoners' dock, the Katusha betraveH hv m- -n ^ nri^
oner s cloak, condemned to penal servitude through a strange
mis
cur^
resc
ator
soul
^ a young
It?"
from the
come in,
Jtant. He
* name ? "
ering her
the same
ekhludoflf
1 for the
le looked
ot decide
Besides,
)w. To-
•me then,
you can
if the in-
an inter-
long the
o longer
ersations
vith her,
isons, so
n down,
that had
>f it, and
ly diary,
ss. Yet
;If, with
his time
with. I
28th of
saw her
strange
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mistake, and my own fault. I have just been to the Pro-
cureur s and to the prison, but I was not admitted. I have
resolved to do all I can to see her, to confess to her, and to
atone for my sm, even by a marriage. God help me Mv
soul IS at peace and I am full of joy."
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
MASLOVA RECALLS THE PAST.
That night Maslova lay awake a long time with her eyes
open looking at the door, in front of which the deacon's
daughter kept passing. She was thinking that nothing
would induce her to go to the island of Sakhalin and marry
XT^V ' ^"t ^Y°">d ^'•'•ange matters somehov with one of
the prison officials, the secretary, a warder, or even a
warder s assistant. " Aren't they all given tha way? Only
I must not get ^hin, or else I am lost."' ^
She thought of how the advocate had looked at her, and
also the president, and of the men she met, and those who
came in on purpose at the court. She recollected how her
companion Bertha, who came to see her in prison, had told
her about the student whom she had " loved " while she was
with Kitaeva and who had inquired about her, and pitied
lliuu A i'^''^'' ^°"^^* ^^^^ t° ™'"d the days of her
cnndhood and youth, and her love to NekhludoflF. That
would have been too painful. These memories lay untouched
somewhere deep m her soul ; she had forgotten him, and
never recalled and never even dreamt of him. To-day, in the
court, she did not recognise him, not only because when she
last saw him he was in uniform, without a beard, and had
only a small moustache and thick, curly, though short hair,
and now was bald and bearded, but because she nevei^
rW f °"* u ™- u ^^l^^^ ^"^'^^ ^'« "^^"^o'-y on that ter-
rible dark night when he, returning from the army, had
aunts /..T/^^J''^"^ r'^°"' ^*°PP'"^ t° ^^" on his
aunts. Katusha then knew her condition. Up to that night
she did not consider the child that lav beneath her heart a
burden. But on that night everything changed, and the child
became nothing but a weight. *» & - ^ ^nuu
His aunts had expected Nekhludoff. hau asked him f«
come aiiu see them in passing, but he had telegraphed "that
}'U
i^.
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deacon's
nothing
nd marry
th one of
■ even a
y? Only
her, and
hose who
how her
had told
i she was
nd pitied
ot Nekh-
s of her
ff. That
ntouched
him, and
iy, in the
vhen she
and had
ort hair,
le never
that ter-
my, had
1 on his
lat night
heart a
the child
(1
'J
■y. pq
him to.
bed that
If'
i i
1^
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mindtogotothSona^^^^^^^^^^^ th.s sh, made up h?r
by at two o'clock in the nie-ht K^fZu u- ^'"^1" "^^^ *« P^ss
ladies to bed, and persuS « ,ttM h^, ^^^'"8: helped the old
Mashka. to come witTher "l^t on /''■^•' '^? '?.°^'^ ^^"^^ter.
a shawl over her h^ad gathered unh-'^i ^°°''' '^'"^^
station. ' 8^^^"ered up her dress, and ran to the
r-P^ll^^^^^^^^^ The rain
It was too dark to see fS S^ °P^' ,"°^ ^^oPPed again,
wood it was ptch black o fhl^.l^'' ^^^fi^^^- and in^the
way well, she got off the oath ^n^"^A^'J."'^^ ^"^^ ^he
where the train stopped for^thr;.^- ^°^ *° ^^^ ^'«le station
had hoped, but afteMhe second Lu^d'^^ "°' '^^^°'-^' ^« «he
»ng up the platform Kati^S. co u- ^^^" ^""S^- Hurry-
dows of a first-clas^carHaee tZ ^'^ "' °"^' ^* ^^e win-
other on the velvet-covered ;el°,°^''" '^' ^PP^^'^e each
riage was very br'ght°riit un on\? {• "F '^'^'' ^his car-
seats stood two thiVk HrJ^n-^' ° *n^ ^'"^^ ^^^Ic between the
fitting breeches on the ar^rS of T^''^ ,^^ ?^* '" ^'^ ^'^ «'!
back, and laughed As smn .. f ^^' ^^^"'"S: against the
knocked at thf carriage w^nl '^l "L^^^^n'sed him she
but at that moment the Ls^belr. ""''^ ^e'" benumbed hand,
a backward jerk, and th/n g aduaif; th"^ " *'"'" ^J'' ^'^^
move forward One nfihl gf^^^ally the carriages began to
hand, and looked out Shefc' 7'' ^'^^ the%ards in his
face to the window but the carH^^f '^"'5' ""^ P^^^^ed her
alongside looking in The oSfHeT^? °"' ""u^ '^' ^^"^
but could not. Nekhludoff n».Wl V *° -T^' *^^ window,
ering it himself. The t^ain^flf,^''^ ^^'^^ and began low-'
walk quickly. The train wenrnncoff' '° *^^^ ^^^^ had to
opened. The guard puZdhe".H ^^''^.^''^ the window
tusha ran on, along th^evfet boards of 'the"1 T^'"^ '""• ^^-
she came to the end she could h.r^i . P^^^^^^n^' and when
ingas she ran down the s'eo of th^ J^i' ?P ^''''J^ ^'"^"^ ^all-
ning by the side of the rXav thn^, i^^I?'' .^^" ^^' ^"n-
riage had long passed her .n^' H^^ ^^f first-class car-
were gliding by faster and ;.!. !^ l^Pn^-^lass carriages
still fister But she r;n . T V^^ ^hird-class carriages-
the lamps at^^ ^adX^bfr ^^^J^l ^^^^^^^^^^^
tiic tank which fed the engine.; -nw""" ahcauy reacned
.he Wind, Which was blo^Trhe;"',;,:?;^''^^"^
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her skirt cling round her legs. The shawl flew oflF her head,
but still she ran on.
** Katerina Michailovna, you ve lost your shawl ! "
screamed the little girl, who was trying in keep up with her.
Katusha stopped, threw back her head, md catching hold
of it with both hands sobbed aloud. " Gone ! " she screamed.
■ He is sitting in a velvet arm-chair and joking and drink-
ing, in a brightly lit carriage, and I, out here in the mud, in
the darkness, in the wind and the rain, am standing and
weeping," she thought to herself; and sat down on the
ground, sobbing so loud that the little girl got frightened,
and put her arms round her, wet as she was.
" Come home, dear," she .said.
" When a train passes — then under a carriage, and there
will be an end," Katusha was thinking, without heeding the
girl.
And she made up her mind to do it, when, as it always
happens, when' a moment of quiet follows great excitement,
he, the child — his child — made himself known within her.
Suddenly all that a moment before had been tormenting her,
so t'isv St had seemed impossible to live, all her bitterness
towiUd>- liim, and the wish to revenge herself, even hy dying,
passed sway ; she grew quieter, got up, put the shawl on her
head, iind went home.
Wet, muddy, and quite exhausted, she returned, and from
that day the change which brought her where she now was
began to operate in her soul. Beginning from that dreadful
night, she ceased believing in God and in goodness. She had
herself believed in God, and believed that other people also
believed in Him ; but after that night she became convinced
that no one believed, and that all that was said about God
and His laws was deception and untruth. He whom she
loved, and who had loved her — yes, she knew that— had
thrown her away ; had abused her love. Yet he was the best
of all the people she knew. All the rest were still worse. All
that afterwards happened to her strengthened her in this be-
lief at every step. His aunts, the pious old ladies, turned her
out when she could no longer serve them as she used to.
And of all those she met, the women used her as a means of
getting money, the men, from the old police officer down to
the warders of the prison, looked at her as on an object for
pleasure. And no one in the world cared for aught but
pleasure. In this belief the old author with whom she had
con
had
this
poc
li
the
Anc
derc
alU
it be
smo!
her head,
shawl ! "
with her.
hing hold
screamed,
nd drink-
e mud, in
ding and
I on the
ightened,
and there
eding the
it always
citement,
thin her.
iting her,
bitterness
by dying,
nI on her
and from
now was
dreadful
She had
ople also
onvinced
)out God
horn she
hat — had
1 the best
•rse. All
I this be-
irned her
used to.
neans of
down to
bject for
she had
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come together in the second year of her life nf ,-nrlpn«« .
had strengthened her He >ii?Li<5 u . ?* »ntlependence
And If sometimes doubts arose in her min.l^nd she won'
dercd why everything was so ill-arra, -i in the worldX
all hurt each other, and made each ot ' iffer shTthnnl^hf
It best not to dwell on it, and if she ^e' iancholy she codd
smoke, or, better still, drink, and it wou.d pass ^ '''"^'^
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CliAPTER XXXVIII.
SUNDAY IN PRISON PREPARING FOR MASS.
On Sunday morning- at five o'clock, when^ a whistle
sounded in the corridor of the women's ward of tlie prison,
Kor-bleva, who was already awake, called Maslova.
"Oh, dear! life again," thought Maslova, with horror,
mvoluntanly breathing in the air that had become terribly
noisome towards the morning. She wished to fall asleep
agam, to enter into the region of oblivion, but the habit of
fear overcame Sleepiness, and she sat up and looked round,
drawmg her feet under her. The women had all got up ;
only the elder children were still asleep. The spirit-trader
was carefully drawing a cloak from under the children, so as
not to wake them. The watchman's wife was hanging up
the rags to dry that served the baby as swaddling clothes,
while the baby was screaming desperately in Theodosia's
arms, who was trying to quiet it. The consumptive woman
was coughmg with her hands pressed to her chest, while the
blood rushed to her face, and she sighed loudly, almost
screammg, m the intervals of coughing. The fat, red-haired
woman was lying on her back, with knees drawn up, and
loudly relatmg a dream. The old woman accused of incen-
diarism was standing in front of the image, crossing herself
and bowing, and repeating the same words over and over
again. The deacon's daughter sat on the bedstead, looking
before her, with a dull, sleepy face. Khoroshavka was
twisting her black, oily, coarse hair round her fingers. The
sound of slipshod feet was heard in the passage, and the
door opened to let in two convicts, dressed in jackets and
grey trousers that did not reach to their ankles. With se-
rious, cross faces they lifted the stinking tub and carried
It out of the cell. The women went out to the taps in the
corridor to wash. There the red-haired woman again be-
gan a quarrel with a woman from another cell.
" Is it the solitary cell you want? " shouted an old jailer,
fl
:i whistle
le prison,
a.
li horror,
e terribly
all asleep
: habit of
id round,
got up;
rit-trader
ren, so as
nging up
f clothes,
eodosia's
e woman
while the
', almost
?d-haired
up, and
oi incen-
e: herself
md over
looking-
I'ka was
rs. The
and the
kets and
^ith se-
carried
)s in the
gain be-
d jailer,
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slapping the red-haired woman on her harP fat u.^v .
It sounded through the corridor "'' You be q'^e '''' " '"^
his a'^^^nl:': cares""' ^'^^'"^'" '''' ^^^ ---"' ^^king
Come out for mspection." cried a jailer
women stoooed talkino- p^ • "P"om ot the stairs the
.he, e„.ereX':'^;;;f-eh^?r?vSJ SSfd'SIl^^'
;jfces crherfghT" '"'''"' °"' »°*"- *ey took fhetr"
tholeTer'vfngXIr teTn! .'nM?'" '^"""""f '» banishment,
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ing, blowing of noses, the crying of babies, and now and then
the rattling of chains, was heard. But at last the convicts
that stood in the middle moved, pressed against each other,
leaving a passage in the centre of the church, down which
the prison inspector passed to take his place in front of every
one in the nave.
V and then
e convicts
ach other,
wn \vhich
it of every
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE PRISON CHURCH-BLIND LEADERS OP THE BLIND.
The service began
in L"a±ld?;v i°„"''"'"^- '^''^ P"^^'' "^-"'S -Iressed
cut and a??a„ged Sirbr^rbl^f n'' """' °' 8°" '-■'°">.
put them into a cut. with lf„ ■" ^ ^'""""'' '""^ *''™
differept names 3 Zr, ""'""■ '^P^='''"e at the same tfme
read Slavon" nraTers'^Sfficui, ,^''r'''i' 'he deacon first
.nd rendpr»rl ...IT ' °™eult to understand n themselves
^^ilnfl^e^^^^^^^ ^y being readt^y'
victs. The conteifts of fh.^ *"'" ^b°"* ^^^^ the con-
titions were reoeated m.T,^° "^ '''' ^^"^'^y- These pe-
with other Drapers the oeo^nleTn'' v'^^'^'^^^ ^"^ ^^^^ther
eral verses from the Actf of the An;:'^- ^"^'^^^ ^^is, sev-
deacon in a pecul arlv strnwIpH ^P^^^^^s were read by the
sible to undeST^at h^taTl'nd^'^^ T.'^' '■' ^"P°-
very distinctly a parr"? the Gn.li 1- ^^^ P^^st read
in which it said that Chri.f l.. "^ according to St. Mark,
fore flying urto heaven .'' .^>T^ "sen fro:n the dead be-
hand, first showed Self to M^^^^ ^^'^'''' ''S^'
He had driven seven d^v Is an^^ ^f^^f ^'""' ^"^ ^^ ^^^"^
pies, and orderedTlLni to teach the r° ' w'"u°^ ^'' ^•«^'-
ation, and the priest added tStrf.n ^°'P!,l V *^^ ^^^^^ cre-
he would perish butTthp/hlr^ 5"^"^'^"°^ believe this
should be saved and should t^"^/- ^"^ ^^^ baptised
cure people bviav?np-hr"l f '"^^ 1"^^ O"' devils and
strangle f gut,'Sdtke\tseTpen^^^^^^^^^ 'f V"
po^on should not die, but remafn well ' ^ '^ ^' ^'""^
that tL^b^c^t U%T; pH::t"Sd 'n^" ,^^^, -P.Po--tion
wine, when manipulated - nrl nil . P"*- ^^ ^im into the
turned into the fle'sl!t d UooSTcor" " ' "'■*^'" -^'
I.'ft n^'nnTl"f r'^*'°"' "°"«'«ted in the priest's r-uS-I
I'ftmg and holding up his arms, though ^hampered^f;^,!^'
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kissmg the able and all that was on it, but chiefly in his
taking a cloth by two of its corners and having it regu arW
and softly over the silver saucer and golden cup ft was
fntKh "^ hM' ')'' r"^' '^' b'-^^^l ^"d the\v?ne urned
into flesh and blood; therefore, this part of the service vva^
performed with the greatest solemnity. ^^^
of rn^"^''/.? *^^.bJf sed, most pure, and most holy Mother
of God, the priest cried from the golden partition which
divided part of the church from the rest, and e cho7r be
gan solemnly to sing that it was very right to glorify the
Virgin Mary, who had borne Christ without losing her vir^
sC^kind nfTh' *^r^°'''.^^°^^^>^ °^ ^'^^''^ hon^our thin
ser^oh^-m If^?v "lu^"^ ^'f'^' ^^°'y th^" some kind of
seraphim After this the transformation was considered ac-
complished, and the priest having taken the naok n off the
saucer, cut the middle bit of brefd in fou" and put't iJ^
a era"bit"f God";7H" T"^'",, ^^ ^^^ -ppos'edto hat
eaten a bit of God s flesh and swallowed a little of His blood
Then tl.e priest drew a curtain, opened the middle door in the
partition, and, taking the gold cup in his hands, c^me out
of the door, mviting those who wished to do so also to cor^e
the^^c'tfo Ti°^ ^wu ^''^ ""^ ^'°°^ '^'' ^-« conta?nS b
the cup. A few children appeared to wish to do so
After having asked the children their names the Driest
carefully took out of the cup, with a spoon, a^d shoved^a b
in turn 'and'^th" T' ^'^^ 'i^? ^^^ "^^^^^ ^' ^^^^ 'hi/d
mouths ..n^ ^^ '^'^'°"' "^^'^^ ^^P'"^ th^ children's
S?W Vt, Tu'"^"'f'.''y ^°'^^' that the children were
eating the flesh and drinking the blood of God After
his the priest carried the cup back behind the partl-
T;y.^''t!^'7 ?\"^ ^" '^^ remaining blood and aL up
all the bits of flesh, and after havin| carefully sucked
his moustaches and wiped his mouth, he stepped brisWv
rkinl'^Th*'" ^''^''T' '""'r'^' °f ^^^ calfskin boot^
nrS fi ^V I^u P""^'Pa part of this Christian service was
now finished, but the priest, wishing to comfort the un^r
tunate prisoners, added to the ordinary servce another
This consisted of his going up to the |ilt hammered out
mage (with black face and hinds) supposed to renresen
l^v^^Ht^^^ ^' ^"^ ^f" eating, illuminated by a do'en
wax candles, and proceeding, in a strange, discordant vofce
to hum or smg the following words : "'''^oraant voice,
5 knees and
iefly in his
it regularly
p. It was
fine turned
service was
)ly Mother
tion which
i choir be-
?lorify the
ig her vir-
'nour than
ne kind of
>idered ac-
fin off the
put it into
ed to have
His blood,
loor in the
came out
!o to come
ntained in
).
the priest
3ved a bit
;ach child
children's
Iren were
d. After
he parti-
id ate up
^ sucked
i briskly
:in boots
vice was
le unfor-
another.
lered-out
epresent
a dozen
nt voice.
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tH:/narVrnL^.:iX^^^^^^^^^^^^ J- lauded by
Jesu, most beautiful JiivenieJcVo J h'"'' \'''' "'>' ^aviour^
Saviour Jesu. Born of LT ^t " ^'"^ '^'^o ^ries to Thee
Prophets^ave ami find tEwo!thv 1\l'''- ^^""^^' ^^ 'hy
Jesit, lover of men " °'*^'-^ °^ ^^^ joys of heaven
ti^e fo^n^^^^^^^^^^^^ himself, bowed to
warders, the prisoners and f-- f"'^~the inspector, the
chams sounde^d morTun "t'ernTi^emirT^ ^'""''"^ °^ ''^^
Of angels the Creator and T 1 i ' r ''^" ^'^ continued:
wonderful, the angels' ania"emen5^°^ P°^ers, Jesu most
our forefathers the Redeemer pI' ^'"'' '"^^^ Powerful, of
the praise. Jesu most glorious oft^'T'' °^ Patriarchs
njost good, of prophets the fufilmem^V''" ''''''^'^- J^«"
?i martyrs the strength. Jesu mn^ ' ^'u^ "'?'* amazing,
joy. Jesu most mefciful of Ji , l\ ' °^ '"°"^'' ^'^^
most charitable, of the fasf^n/f ^' *''.^ sweetness. Jesu
fweet of the ju;t the joy tfu mos?"""'"^?' >^" -^o7t
the chastity. Jesu before all aLTof ^■''''' °^^^^ ^^''^ates
Jesu, son of God, have me?cyo^nnie '''""'" ' '''""''■°"-
came^Sor^a^d'Vor:^^^^^^^^^^^ X^' J- " his voice be-
and holding up his silk S* ^ ^^^^ ^^^ <^ame to a stoo
on one knef, h'e st^pfd do vn To ^e"' '"' |<"-""/clow'n
began to sing, repeating t^^ords ^'r""'^ "c"^ '^^ ^^oir
have mercy on me" and Ihl • ' /^^"' Son of God
again, shaking bTck the hiir tha^w '' f ^°^^" '^^ ^o'e
and rattling with the <^^ Z :-'^^Z!r?^
}l^^^s'::^JZi^^:^^^ ^/- -- the giorifica.
each sentence, then If f evLv two ''' ."" 1, *'°^^^' ^^^^t
and al were very glad whenTheTi.^"^^ ''?"" after three,
the pnest shut the book wkh a silh''^^'^'!^'? ""^^^' and
behmd the partition. Onriast .^.^ '^''^^ ^"^ '"^tired
took a large, gilt cross, w?th ename L"T\v'^- ^^' P^^st
from a table, and came o" into fi '"^^allions at the ends,
with ,t First the inspector cTmenn '^T^ °^ '^^ ^^"^ch
then the jailers, then the cornets Pn!"t''"'"^i^^ ''^'''
^ach other in whispers. The priest ;.ll"'^'^ ?"^ ^^"^'"^
ne priest, talking to the inspecto^
i.|fi
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pushed the cross and his hand now against the mouths
and now against the noses of the convicts, who were ty!
SI r^ ^Jt^^^^^.^^'P'' ^"d tl^e hand of the priest. .And
thus ended the Christian service, intended for the comfort
and the teachmg of these strayed brothers ^omiort
the mouths
lo wtre try-
driest. And
the comfort
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CHAPTER XL.
THE HUSKS OF RELIGION.
bidden men to call otl er nien 'tl " *''" '^'^'^'^ words for!
temples; and had ordered tTa'"" '^^''''' ^"^ to prky in
solitude, had forbidden to ererff ""V °"^ should pray n
come to destroy them ^n^ .1^ temples, saying that hXI^
f temple, but in spir^ a?,"/>f ^ °"e should wishio not In
l^ad forbidden not onlv to ; "^ "^^ '.^"^' ^^ove all^that H^
any one present. ^ ""'"^ "^^ enter mto the mind of
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The priest did h,s part with a quiet conscience, because
rnlT- r°"^'\V'^^/'T" childliood to consider tha the oi y
mie faith was the faith which, had been held bv all the holy
men of olden times and was still held by the" Church and
deinanded by the State authorities. He (lid not believe t1 at
the bread turned into flesh, that it was useful for the soul to
h?S r^"'^lV' '''^'■^''' °'' ^'^''^^ ''^' ^'^^'^ ^'-'^"allv swallowed a
bit of God. No one could believe this, but he' believed that
one oug!,t to hold this faith. What st;engthened Im n os
Ihi tithllT' 1'7 ^? '''.''' '""I ^"^^"'"^ ^^- denlancro
this faith, he had for the last i8 years been able to draw
an income, which enabled him to keep his familv. send hil
son to a gymnasium and his daughter to a school for the
daughters o the clergy. The deacon believed in the sa e
manner, and even more firmly than the priest, for he 1 ad
forgotten the substance of the dogmas of this fait ! and
knew only hat the prayers for the dead, the masses. wUh
and without the acathistus, all had a definite price, wWch
real Christians readily paid, and. therefore, he called out Ss
have mercy, have mercy." very willingly, and read and
said what was appointed, with the same quiet certainty of
IL S^ necessary to do so with which other men sell fag-
T.'' Ji?"'' u' Potatoes. The prison inspector and the wa?-
ders, though they had never understood or gone into the
meaning of these dogmas and of all that went on in church
ties'a'nd th'^T '^ T'' ^fl'\^ ^T'''' '^' ^^'^^her authori^
aintfv InH I 'r'"^^ ^ u!'^'^ ^" '^- ^^^>^^«' though
taintly (and themselves unable to explain whv) thev felf
that this faith defended their cruel occupation^ If this fa^^^h
did no exist It would have been more difficult, perhaps
impossible, for them to use all their powers to tormeS
people, as they were now doing, with a quiet conscience
The inspector was such a kind-hearted man that he could
fakh ThiTf ^',''' was now living unsupported by his
faith. Therefore, he stood motionless, bowed and crossed
himself zealously, tried to feel touched when the song about
the cherubims was being sung, and when the children re-
toX nTr^T^-^'" ^'^''l^ °^'" °^ '^^"'' ^"d held him up
to the priest with his own hands. ^
The great majority of the prisoners believed that there
lay a mystic power in these gilt images, these vestments
candles, cups crosses, and this repetition of incompre-'
hensible words, " Jesu sweetest " and " have mercv '^-la
cc, because
lat tlic only
ill the holy
hurch, and
jclicve that
the soul to
^■allowed a
'licvcd that
I him most
Icmands of
le to draw
V, send his
jol for the
I the same
"or he had
faith, and
isses. with
ice, which
led out his
read and
jrtainty of
n sell fag-
l the war-
e into the
in church,
r authori-
s, though
they felt
this faith
, perhaps
I torment
)nscience.
he could
?d by his
i crossed
'ng about
ildren re-
:1 him up
bat there
sstments,
rjcompre-
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;;y. leaving made fern- 'la tern H "Tl ^'''' ^''^' '"'''i"'-
tl^ey desired, bv nu-ans f pra^^^^^^^^^^ ^'' the conveniences
not having g.^'them (tl ei pri ^Vs r"'''''-"^ ^^^'"'"^^- ^"<1
were each of them co nince ^ '. 'l' "'"^ ""answered),
acculental. and that this om.ni ^ • ' ''^''^ ''^ ^"^^^^^s was
cated and by archbisl 1 fs " ', imi ''T'''''^ '^-^ '^'^ ^^l"'
Maslova also believorl in ti,;J i . '
a mixe<l sensation of pilv n Tl '^'^" ^^"'t' ^^^^ the rest
'n a crowd behind a ailing /k'T-^^ ^^'^ '^^^d at first
but her companions! but Xn lu^fo ,n^' ^'°"'^' ^'"'^ "« <-^ne
moved on. she and Theo loV n !/ ^*° '"^^^'^e conmnmion
saw the inspector an 1 bXTffm ^ '° '''?.^''°"^' ^"^^ the"
warders, a little peasant wiH L ' ^ ^"^^'"8: among the
hair. This was TSo^ii' ' Lf^^'-^' ^'^'V ^''^''^ ^"^1 fai
with fixed eyes at his vWfe D n'";,^' ""^^ J\^ '^'^^ gazing
occupied herself in scru h^isiW 1 il"^' acatlnstus Maslovl
dosia m whispers, and bowed and mJn^?^^ ''""^''"^ ^« Theo-
only when every one else did *^'^ ''^" °^ ^^e cross
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ij.,
CHAPTER XLI.
VISITING DA V— THE MKn's WARD.
Nekhludoff left home early. A peasant from the coun-
try was still drivmg along the side street and calling out in
a voice peculiar to his trade, " Milk ! milk ! milk ! "
The first warm spring rain had fallen the day before, and
now wherever the ground was not paved the grass shone
green. The birch trees in the gardens looked as if thev
were strewn with green fluff, the wild cherry and the pop-
lars unrolled their long, balmy buds, and in shops and
dwelling-houses the double window-frames were being re-
moved and the windows cleaned.
In the Tolkoochi* market, which Nekhludoff had to pass
on his way a dense crowd was surging along the row of
booths and tattered men walked about selling top-boots
which they carried under their arms, and renovated trousers
and waistcoats, which hung over their shoulders
Men in clean coats and shining boots, liberated from the
lactones, it being Sunday, and women with bright silk
kerchiefs on their heads and cloth jackets trimmed with
jet were already thronging at the door of the traktir
policemen, with yellow cords to their uniforms and carrv-
mg pistols were on duty, looking out for some disorder
which might distract the ennui that oppressed them. On
the paths of the boulevards and on the newly-revived grass
children and dogs ran about, playing, and the nurses sat
merrily chattering on the benches. Along the streets, still
fresh and damp on the shady side, but drv in the middle
heavy carts rumbled unceasingly, cabs rattled and tramcars
passed ringing by. The air vibrated with the pealing and
c anging of church bells, that were calling the people to
attend to a service like that which was now being conducted
cJf^'^f^u-^' jostling market, where second-hand clothes and all
sorts of cheap goods are sold. «.'u"ies ana an
1 the coun-
ling out in
)efore, and
rass shone
as if they
1 the pop-
shops and
being re-
ad to pass
he row of
top-boots,
d trousers
from the
right silk
med with
e traktir.
nd carry-
disorder
lem. On
'ed grass,
urses sat
eets. still
e middle,
tramcars
ding and
)eople to
onducted
s and all
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The tsvostchik did not'd ive SeSdnff ^'^'''^' ^'''"''^hes.
'tself, but to the last turning tliatleto^^ "'' ''' '^'' l^"^°"
. Several persons— men nmi \. *"*-' prison.
;ngr small bundles, stood at thrsT~'"°'S°^ '^''^ ^^^^y
from the prison. To ? e ieh "^' "'^^"^ '°« ^^eps
wooden buildings : to the Vf. /'''^'■^ '''''^ several low
s-gnboard. Thf In ge br ck ' bu irn"'"^'^''^' '^""^^^ ^^'^'^^
Posite the fenLd.tt ^ vv^ ^rer'on'aT' /^ l'^ ''^^^^^' ^p-
orm, with gold cords, a no ibook ?n r '^ ^7^'^'' '" ""'"
tors came up to him, and named H^ ' ^'^"^'- ^^^^'^ vis-
to see. and he put the nlnZT ^'^^P^^^sons they wanted
"P. and named'xaterina Maslova""Th^''''V'°^ ^'^ -em
the name. ^asiova. The warder wrote down
;; Why don't they admit us yet > " asked M.M i - , ..
be 2:^^^^ '^ ^-^ on. When tht^^^^^^Jrvryou'll
-nt'';^t°ered^rtt1^^^^^^^ /'^ --^-^ crowd. A
'•ed stripes all over his face dlt 'j'^A V^ ^^'^ ^^^t and
crowd n,,^„^^^^^s;^cedet^^^^^^^ h.mself from the
tin/vTh tt"guf -^ -^ -"K" shouted the sen-
thele^aVZ S^^^::^ ^^^-"^P. not i„
Well, If you'll not let nie n tmt ^•^' ^"^ ^"'■"etl back
.he ^re^LTp'a f ^t-d^etir- .^"^ -"^ -.e, for
but there were atn c^ People; some were ra^Un
women. Next to NekhS^/^fP^^-^^^'T'^^^'"^ "^en^and'
and red-cheeked man hofd'ng^;°^„^\clean-shaven, stout
tammg under-garments Th.? ""^^e* apparently con-
bank; he had cSme to see his irn^^f' '^l ^^^'^^^P^r o? a
forgery. The good nature 1 tu^^'' V^° ^^^ ^'''-ested fo?
whole story of L life ",5'^ fellow told NekhludofT the
turn, when their attemiont "^^^ ^°'"8^ ^o question him in
veiled lady, .vh^lrrup't^aTan' ^l^^\^-^ "^
"P in a trap, with rubber tyres,
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drawn by a large thoroughbred horse. The student was
holding a large bundle. He came up to Nekhludoflf, and
asked if and how he could give the rolls he had brought in
alms to the prisoners. His iiancee wished it (this lady
was his iiancee), and her parents had advised them to take
some rolls to the prisoners.
^^ " I myself am here for the first time," said Nekhludoflf,
and don't know ; but I think you had better ask this man,"
and he pointed to the warder with the gold cords and the
book, sitting on the right.
As they were speaking, the large iron door with a win-
dow in it opened, and an officer in uniform, followed by an-
other warder, stepped out. The warder with the notebook
proclaimed that the admittance of visitors would now com-
mence. The sentinel stepped asiHe, and all the visitors
rushed to the door as if afraid of being too late ; some even
ran. At the door there stood a warder who 'counted the
visitors as they came in, saying aloud, i6, 17, and so on.
Another warder stood inside the building and also counted
the visitors as they entered a second door, touching each
one with his hand, so that when they went away again not
one visitor should be able to remain inside the prison and
not one prisoner might get out. The warder, without look-
ing at whom he was touching, slapped Nekhludoflf on the
back, and Nekhludoflf felt hurt by the touch of the warder's
hand ; but, remembering what he had come about, he felt
ashamed of feeling dissatisfied and talking oflfence.
The first apartment behind the entrance doors was a
krge vaulted room with iron bars to the small windows. In
this room, which was called the meeting-room, Nekhludoflf
was startled by the sight of a large picture of the Cruci-
fixion.
" What's that for ? " he thought, his mind involuntarily
connecting the subject of the picture with liberation and
not with imprisonment.
He went on, slowly letting the hurrying visitors pass be-
fore, and experiencing a mingled feeling of horror at the
evil-doers locked up in this building, compassion for those
who, like Katusha and the boy they tried the day before,
must be here though guiltless, and shyness and tender emo-
tion at the thought of the interview before him. The war-
der at the other end of the meeting-room said something
as they passed, but Nekhludoff, absorbed by his own
tudent was
ludoflf, and
brought in
(this lady
em to take
lekhludoff,
this man,"
ds and the
'ith a win-
ved by an-
notebook
now com-
le visitors
some even
mnted the
md so on,
o counted
hing each
again not
)rison and
lout look-
3ff on the
; warder's
ut, he felt
»rs was a
dows. In
ekhludoflf
he Cruci-
oluntarily
ation and
> pass be-
or at the
for those
ly before,
ider emo-
The war-
omething
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tt"r?j^ri?y"^fThe S^^^ ^d^^' -^ -"tinued to foLw
of the ^riso^ instSd S the .omenV^' '"'" ^'^ "^"'^ P^^*
^^P^t^'^'llS:^^^^^^^^^ He u^ the
ludoff opened the door of th^^s mom h. '°?" ^.' ^^^H'
deafening roar of a hundred vo^ce^'shn,^^' '^'■"'^' ^>^ '^^
reason of which he did not at IIT ''^°"*'"g^ at once, the
he came nearer to the peop e he « '[^'""1: ^"^ ''^^^
pressing against a net tha? di^idenT *^^* *^.">' "^^'^ a"
flies settling on suear ami hL ^ *^^ ''''^"^ '" two, like
The two hflves of^the room th?'^''"'^^^^ ^'^^^ ^' '"^ant
opposite the door he had come in r""^"^"^' ""^ ^'^'^^ ^e'-e
by one, but by two nets reacHno- f ^' Z^'^ separated, not
ing. The Jre n^tTTer:''^^^^^^^
soldiers were walking up and down tl^ ^ H^ ^^"'"t' ^nd
On the further side^of ?he nets we e tK' ^''^ '' '^'''^'
nearer, the visitors. Between thlm, Pnsoners, on the
nets and a space of 7 feet wide n .T Tfu ^ "^^"^^^ '''''^ of
anything to one another and ^nv ^* *u'>^ ^°"^^ "^^ hand
very good could no° even dtt?n/ursh^h '^^'^ ''^^' '''' "°t
side. It was also difficult to JaTn^'J^S^ ^" ^'^^ °ther
order to be heard ^'''' °"^ ^^^ to scream in
of wLttlt^^^^^^^^^^ close t, the nets, faces
each other's features knd to sTwh.; ^ '''^"' ''^''"^ to see
a way as to be understood ^ ^ "^^^ necessary in such
tal4to;a^\rnJSlurtHe5T^ -^ ^e was
their best to drown Sothrr'c ■ ^"^ ^^^ '^'"^' they did
cause of the din and shoudnL Ji?/'.''' ^^ '^^' ^^^ the
when he first came in ifwa^s Tmnn "m""^ NekhludoflP
what was being said and w W ''"POfible to understand
the dififerent people Next nIm '7 ?' '"'^^'^"^ between
a kerchief on^iefhead stLd treSf- '"if^^ T""'^ "^^'^
close to the net. and shouting somTtht'^V^"' "'''" ^'^''^^
half of whose head was shf vpH i», ^r*'' ^ ^°""^? ^^"ow,
with raised brows. By the s^e'o7t? ^'ff""^ attentively
young man in a peasant^ coir ^1^ ^r "'"^ ^°"^^" ^as a
head, to a boy verVlike him^^lf ' m^° ^''*'"^^' ^'^aking his
who shoutedf Sg hisTrm Li^r* 1'?°^ ^ "'^^ ^"^ag !
a woman, with a good woo^n'lw."^''';-^- ?"'^^ ^^ ^^^ '
on the floor holding a babv in SrT °" ^^^ sJ^o^Iders. sat
g a Daby m her lap and crying bitterly.
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This was apparently the first time she saw the erevheaded
man on the other side in prison clothes, and wiKis head
to Npli^fT^ ^^: ^l^ '^' doorkeeper, who had spoken
to Nekhludoff outside; he was shouting with all his S"
''.iF^^'tf ^^^ ^°"^^^t on the other side. ^
. When Nekhludoff found that he would have to speak in
similar conditions, a feeling of indignation agdnst tho e
who were able to make and enforce these conditions aro e
in him ; he was surprised that, placed in such a dreadful
leelmgs. Ihe soldiers, the inspector, the prisoners them-
Nekh'l^doV' '^ ^F^"P-^-??-g all this to'le Necessary
Nekhludoff remained in this room for about five minutes
feeling strangely depressed, conscious of how poweTss he
was, and at variance with all the world. He was sdzed with
a curious moral sensation like seasickness
greyheaded
ith his head
had spoken
11 his might
to speak in
jainst those
itions arose
a dreadful
J on human
mers them-
lecessary.
ve minutes,
owerless he
seized with
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VISITING DAY— THE WOMEN's WARD.
" Well, but I must do what I came herp fr,^ » u • t
S'?otl r '~"«^- • '; What isTo b'rL'rn'oJ^.nt
where one is anord",;oi„T'r::i:w'''.Lr"™ "" ''^'' '""
^^ No, she is simply ..."
" ^^^^ •' ^^ she sentenced ? "
■"?. ^e^Tr"'^'"^^ ^°^P°-' with "edaTs"'' h.-A'^t'""-
from sot reTaV'JSt/r''"^ ^""^ "^^^ "-''' -"""^
stra„'|St"^fan'was ftThe f Tft '° N*hIudoff; but
do7eir"hist„°,re"' P"'"™'"^ '"^ ""^' d^'O' 'haTw*:
ou?"ofthe''SU„'.oThl '''""';''?'' "'™^'' 'he corridor,
tne men s mto the women's interviewing-room.
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The whoIe"en°th o^t r„. I ?'''" ™'°'"'«' '•■•'=^^<'=-
standing dose , i, Vo^. """ ^^'" "P ''>' "« P^Ple
.he heafea^; ; s^TsraSn^-^r t^ ^fl^if^^ =""-
a younrpeas-int wfth . f"''/''"i"^ ','°^^ *° ^^e net, stood
« ^uuiig ptasant, with a fair beard and a f ii<;hpri fo,.J 1
mg back his tears with difficulty A nr.^/ ?• u • ',^^^P"
Drisoner lif^^f '^'"" '' ™""'"' ^"^ '" f^-ont of each a
" How
^°shall'lcal'rS"'n" 1," ^ ''™''<^''," he thought,
snail X call her? Or will she come herself ? "
1 by two wire
fewer visitors
)uting than in
3ing on here,
was a woman
et, with gold
Iso, as in the
the wire net-
wnspeople in
ers, some in
Lired dresses,
y the people
heard across
lor.
3y her pierc-
, dishevelled
lair, and she
;r's division,
'stures, to a
-v the waist,
d talking to
le net, stood
1 face, keep-
haired pris-
These two
hem was a
wo women,
of each a
t some one
Nekhliidoff
er, and his
pproaching.
uld see the
behind the
i'hat Theo-
cloak now,
: by a belt,
erchief ap-
same as in
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" Ka erlna utr'" '^^'<""''°« """«'• -i'h difficulty
warden ^'"'°™' '"'"^ °"' '» »<^^ J">u." cried the
e thought.
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CHAPTER XLIIL
NEKHLUDOFF VISITS MASLOVA.
ex^nSH'';^hi''c?^''' '■''""'^' ^"? '^'^^ ^^^^ thrown back and
expanded chest, came up to the net with that exoression of
readmess which he well knew, pushed in between two p^^^^^^
oners, and gazed at Nekhludo/with a surprised and ques-
rlch'Khe s'm^r^"^^"^ '^^ ^'' ^^'^^^"^ ^" -^
"Is It me you want?" she asked, bringinff her smilintr
face with the slightly squinting eyes,' nearfr the net ^
to addr^s hTr " I'' 'TTT" ^^'^hludoflF did not know how
lo aciaress her. I wished to see vou I " Fr<» «7oc ««♦
speaking loader than usual. ^ He was not
stood^ne'xtT hir' "V'" ^°"-", ^^°"^^^ '^' ^ramp who
stood next to him. Have you taken it or not ? "
Uying, I tel you ; what more do you want? " some one
else was screaming at his other side.
Maslova could not hear what NekhludoflF was saying but
" I cannot hear what you are -^ayinff." she callpH ni,f
wrinkling her brow and frowning mo/e and more '
I have come." said NekhludoflF. " Yes I am doin<y m^
tt'^"^ r ^«"f^««i"§'' thought Nekhirdoffrand at^tWs
fZtnll'T T' l^'l^'l'^'"' ^"^ h^ ^^Jt a'choking sen?
S he'Ldeeff-t '^1? ^°^f "^ °" ^j^h both hands fo the
net, ne made efforts to keep from bursting into tears.
1 say why do you shove yourself in where vou're not
wanted ? " some one shouted at one side of him ^
Uod is my vyitness ; I know nothing," screamed a oris-
orer from the other side »v,icdmea a pris-
'^Yon"ii^' excitement, Maslova recognised him.
You re like . . . but no ; I don't know you," she shouted
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3wn back and
expression of
^een two pris-
sed and ques-
ing he was a
? her smihng
be net.
lot know how
He was not
: tramp who
? " some one
s saying, but
reminded her
till the smile
ing appeared
t called out,
•e.
m doing my
and at this
choking sen-
hands to the
ears.
e you're not
imed a pris-
lim.
she shouted,
r face grew
I
■
S
I
I have come to ask you to forgive me," he said, in a loud
but monotonous voice, like a lesson learnt by heart
Havmg said these words he became confused- but imme
thf h/n''"'^ 'I' ;''°"g^* '^''' '^ ^' f^lt ashamed, it rsa,
loud voke'^^ ^'' *^ ""''' '''''' ^'^'"^' ^"^ ^' cominurd in a
"Forgive me; I have wronged you terribly."
eyes o/h°m '"^^'^"^^^^ ^"^ ^^^^-^^t taking her squimin
He could not continue to speak, and stepping awav from
the net he tned to suppress the sobs that were fhoS hTm
H J .^ '"fpector, the same officer who had directed Nfkhm-
doff to the women's ward, and whose interest he seemed to
have aroused, came into the room, and, seeing NekS^doff
not at the net, asked him why he was nor"flkint to he^
h^^U^' uT'^ '? '''' Nekhludoff blew hi no! gave
himself a shake, and, trying to appear calm, said : ' ^
heard " '"^ '"^°"^^"'^"t through these nets; nothing can be
Again the inspector considered for a moment.
K.rv ' » 1' . ""^^ ^^ brought out here for awhile Marv
A S TJ^'^'I^V^' ^^'■^^^' ' J^ad Maslo^a out " ^
Dint ToX T" ^^'^°^^ "i^""' °"t °^ the side door Step-
fnnS A ^' !^u- ^^?^ "P ^'°se to Nekhludoff. Stopped and
looked up at him from under her brows. Her black hair
aTkSr^ ;" ":J^'^*^ "^^'- ^^^ ^^^-'^^-^ in the same way
as It had been two days ago; her face, though unheal^ and
puffy, was attractive, and looked perfectly cT onlv th.
fwolKds''"' '''' ^^^""^ strfngeirL^^"^;„t^ Z
his" rh^o"uiS t ^^i^r^^ ^^ri^^i^' ;^-^^-^
Nekhludoff moved to^wrds'le^at^b^'the wat '^ ^"^P"""
^^ K= ^tr^ji^^f^n-f &r
do'wf be'side^him^"^'' ^"' '^^'"^ ^^"^^^ ^- '^-^ sat
stoppS^^L^r ^^^^^tr ^^: ^.^r-' ;?"f
can|t^undo_the past, I shall now"!oX is fn^^y'^^ot r'
"How have you managed to find me?" she said, with-
s
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-out answering his question, neither looking away from him
nor quite at him, with her squinting eyes. ^ ^ ^""
*j, u. 1 ' , . 'P '"^ • '^^^ch me what to do " iNlekhludoff
thought, looking at her changed face. " I was on the ,^^^^^
Jit m^?'''"" ^-^-<iay/' he%aid. "You dTd not recog^
did n'^ot'elenlork!'^' '^'17' "'' '"^ '°'" --^-^ions. I
'' riZVr' f. ^u'^i- "^Z' ^^^'^ "°t ? " he asked,
and viSsly^'- '^ '"' ^* °"^^'" she answered, abruptly
'' What do you mean ? Why ? "
" I was so ill myself, I nearly died " shp «Jrl ;« fi,^ .
-' Su^ ?°"^^ '"^^ ^""^^ h^ve let you go ? "
Who keeps a seryant tha- has a baby? They sent me
off as soon as they noticed. But why speak of this? I Z
member nothing. That's all finished." ^
- Ti?' '*.'^ not finished ; I wish to redeem my sin."
is passed'" she T.?h'° ''^/''"u ^u^"''^ ^^^" ^^« ^een and
IS passed, she said; and, what he neyer expected she
lot ma^nne"? ^"' ''''''' ^" ^" ""P^^-^^^ ^"-^yet pit!
Masloya neyer expected to see him again, and certainly
not here and not now; therefore, when she first record
nl?;r'^- u^'f^ "°*- '^^^P ^^^^^ the memories wWch she
neyer wished to reyiye. In the first moment she remem!
bered dimly that new, wonderful world of feelinla^d^f
thought which had been opened to her by thecliarrninJ
young man who loyed her and whom she bved and Then
his incomprehensible cruelty and the whole s?riL of
thrmaTk>r'Thl""^\'"' '?"^^ ^^°- andlollLel
It^nd^tt^llL I I P'^^ ^^' P^'"' ^"^' nnable to under-
stand It, she did what she was always in the habit of doin^
of X^ay^ed^'r "fnT' fi^ 'l ^"^^^^^^"^ ^^^^ ^" ^he ml'
oi d aeprayea lite. In the first moment she as«;npiaf#:>ri tu^
man now sitting beside her with the lad she had S but
Now ^hif '' t r^ ""r P^^"' ^^^ dissocLd the^lga'in'
Now, this wel -dressed, carefully-got-up gentleman S
creatures Hke herself wL°„M,t S^,, te^rd Xm
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ay from him
Nekhludoff
on the jury
1 not recog-
gnitions. I
:d.
;d, abruptly
in the same
i and could
ey sent me
this? I re-
;in."
IS been and
)ected, she
ng, yet pit-
d certainly
recognised
which she
he remem-
ng and of
charming
, and then
string of
d followed
to under-
: of doing,
in the mist
)ciated the
loved ; but
lem again,
man with
^hom she
de use of
nd whom
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rrSyas'th'ercoi,Sn„'H°£' "'^ oHn .heir .urn a.
That's all at an end " shp caJH « xt t»
to Siberia," and her li^ trpmhi h u"^ ^ "" condemned
dreadful word ^ '""^^'^ ^' '^^ ^^« ^ayi"g this
ludoff^""'"' ^ """' '''■'^^" >'°" ^^'•^ "ot &"ilty," said Nekh-
one.^sheTid'' ""«'" '° ""^ 'P"'"' " ^hou.d be a good
"I shall do all that is possible."
^^They were silent, and then she smiled again in the same
" And I should like to ask you o ]u,u
i^'Z saM-, .ddr-r"-- -^'- ' ^"- s
and feuffi;: ^ute"""" "''' -■'" ^ ""« °' »"'--„,
take it away " "°" ' «'™ " "" <'°"t °f him ; he'd
_^e.„.ei.pe^-,:^---o^-e
.h;sli^r:.!-;d^^^-:,^etrpf^^^^^^^^^^
evil glitter in the black, squintin/ eves whirl ,^ ^^ ^'^
hesitated. T^mMer thltTd K ^"^ '"', ? '"<'"'™t he.
'™". .he ,ue^ti;n?x t':::x it r^SoTs
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what the consequences would be. and what would be
practical.
.. " You can do nothing with this woman," said the voice-
you will only tie a stone round your neck, which will help
to drown you, and hinder you from being useful to others
»t not better to give her all the money that is here sav
good-bye, and finish with her forever ?" whispered the
But here he felt that now, at this very moment, some-
thing most important was taking place in his soul— that
his inner life was, as it were, wavering in the balance sc
that the slightest effort would make it sink to this side or
the other. And he made this effort by calling to his assist-
ance that God whom he had felt in his soul the day bXe
and that God instantly responded. He resolved to tell her
everything now— at once.
" Katusha, I have come to ask you to forgive me, and
you have given me no answer. Have you forgiven me?
Will you ever forgive me ? " he asked
She did not listen to him, but looked at his hand and
at the inspector, and when the latter turned she hastilv
her belt °"^ ' ^^'P^^^ *^^ "^t^' ^nd hid it under
''That's odd, what you are saying there," she said, with a
smile of contempt, as it seemed to him.
NekhludofT felt that there was in her soul one who was
his enemy and who was protecting her, such as she was
now, and preventing him from getting at her heart But
strange to say, this did not repel him, but drew him nearei^
to her by some fresh, peculiar power. He knew that he
must waken her soul, that this was terribly difficult, but the
very difficulty attracted him. He now felt towards her as
he had never felt towards her or any one else before. There
j;^oL"wT^ E-^'T^'" *^^^ ^"^""^= ^^ ^^"ted nothing
from her for himself, but only wished that she might not
remain as she now was, that she might awaken and be-
come again what she had been.
" Katusha, why do you speak like that? I know vou- I
remember you— and the old days in Papovo " '
dril ^^^^'^ *^^ "^^ °^ recalling what's past? '"' she remarked,
„ '' L'' V -^"'"'^ '^ i":,""^^' *° P"^ •* "^^-t- to atone for
my sin, Kaiusna, and he was going to say that he would
t would be
d the voice ;
ich will help
ul to others,
is here, say
liispered the
nent, some-
5 soul — that
balance, so
this side or
his assist-
day before,
1 tq tell her
ve me, and
rgiven me?
s hand and
she hastily
lid it under
said, with a
le who was
as she was
leart. But,
him nearer
ew that he
ult, but the
irds her as
ore. There
id nothing
might not
!n and be-
ow you ; I
remarked,
atone for
he would
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II!fn!7.^!I' ^!i^ ,"'^^t'"& her eyes, he read in them some-
go on '° '°^"'' '° ''"P^"^"^' that he could not
At this moment the visitors began to go. The insoector
came up to Nekhludoff and said that thefime was up^
Good-bye ; I have still much to say to you, but vou see
" I think you have said all."
She took his hand but did not press it.
No ; I shall try to see you again, somewhere where we
can talk, and then I shall tell you what I have to say-some!
thing very important." ^ '"^
withThf; I^k"; 'r'' y'^y "°^- " «he answered, and smiled
eave tofhe^r'V""''!."^' ?"u^ promising smile which she
gave to the men whom she wished to please
" Tho.''*'^T'^ ^u^"" ?/*'*^'' t° "^^'" said Nekhludoflf.
I hat s odd, she said again, and went behind the grat-
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maslova's view of life.
Before the first interview, Nekhludofif thoufrht that wh^^n
but, to his horror, he found that K^h^IL .}t ^^'" '
SH^rHr ^^^'°™ '" "* p'- ^^^^^
ashYm^Jl ^''°'"'^^'l h'"^ "lost was that Katusha was not
LS^^;!;^srJ:fo2rt^t&
view of the life of me'n in gen;ral whS , °ake his o'ccu'
pation seem important and good.
It IS usually imagined that a thief, a murderer a snv p
prost,tue, acknowledging his or her profession as evif' is
ashamed of it. But the contrary is true People whom f. .
e\"eV?aTse thTno r" '^^^ l'4' ^" ^ -rtrrposiHorhow!
wWi7 1 .?°''^'°" ""^y ^^' ^^'•m a view of life in general
which makes their position seem good and admiss"bfe Tn
kSVo°th"?irr'7.""^' '' '1''''''' peopleTstinctive ;
Keep to the circle of those people who share their views nf
hfe and their own place in it. This surprise. usWherrth.
persons concerned are thieves, bra^^ine- rbout tSr !i
boaS-' '''fT' ^"'"^'"^ ^^-- /e^a^itt o murder'ers'
boasting of their cruelty. This surprises 'us only because
the circle, the atmosphere in which these people li^e is Im
ited, and we are oitt..ide it. But can we not observe the same'
phenomenon whe. the rich boa.st of their weal h / rob
bery : the nomm.nc, h he ormv pride themselves on their
victories, i.e., murder -.nd ^V-sem hip-h nuZ ? ! •
power ie vinlpn.- ? • ' '^^ '" mgn places vaunt their
power, t.e., violem..: ; t uo not sec the perversion in the
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t that when
er, Katusha
usha again ;
'd no more,
mishecl and
1 was not
isoner (she
:itute. She
could it be
act, has to
lerefore, in
)rm such a
e his occu-
r, a spy, a
as evil, is
whom fate
ition, how-
in general
ssible. In
stinctively
' views of
where the
heir dex-
nurderers
y because
/e, is lim-
■ the same
i.e., rob-
s on their
lunt their
on in the
'i
former hv'^fi ^'^'' ^^ '•'''" P'°P'"' °"1>' ^^^^"^^ the circle
formed by hem is more extensive, and we ourselves are
movmg mside of it. >><- aic
And in this manner iMaslova had formed her views of life
and of her own position. She was a prostitute condemned to
Siberia, and yet she had a conception of life which made it
possiWe for her to be satisfied with herself, and even to pride
herself on her |)0:,itioii I^fore others. '
According to thi^ conception, the highest good for all men
without exception---old, young, schoolboys!' generals, edu"
cated and iMieducated. was connected with the relation of the
sexes; therefore, all men, even when they pretended to be
occupied with other things, in realitv took this view She
was an attractive woman, and therefore she was an im-
portant and necessary person. The whole of her former and
^e'^tSIi '"^^ "^ confirmation of the correctness of this con-
With such a view of life, she was bv no means the lowest
but a very important person. And Maslova prized this view
of life more than anything; she could not but prize it, for
if she lost the impoitance that such a view of life gave her
among men, she would lose the meaning of her life And in
order not to lose the meaning of her life, she instinctively
clung to the set that looked at life in the sanie way as she did
Feeling that Nekhludoff wanted to lead her out fnto anothe;
world, she resisted him, foreseeing that she would have to
lose her place in life, with the self-possession and self-re-
spect It gave her. For this reason she drove from her the
Nekhludoff. These recollections did not correspond with
her present conception of the world, and were therefore quite
rubbed out of her mind, or, rather, lay somewhere buried
and untouched, closed up and plastered over so that thev
should rot .^icape, as when bees, in order to protect the result
of their labour, will sometimes plaster a nest of worms
Therefore the present Nekhludoff was not the man she Sd
once loved with a pure love, but only a rich gentleman whom
she could, and must, make use of, and with whom she could
only have the same relations as with m.n in general
hiHoff 'n?n' • ."°' ^f H'' 9^ ""^'^^ t'^'"^'" thought Nekh-
ludoff, moving towards the front doors with the rest of the
people " I did not tell her that I would marry her; I did
not tell her so, but I will," he thought. ^ ^'^' ^ a»a
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The two warders at the door let out the visitors, counting
them again, and touching each one with their hands, so that
no extra person should go out, and none remain within. The
slap on his shoulder did not offend Nekhludoff this time • he
did not even notice it. '
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3rs, counting
ands, so that
within. The
this time; he
CHAPTER XLV.
FANARIN, THE ADVOCATE — THE PETITION.
naMife"tn Z^i ^T^ to rearrange the whole of his exter-
nal hfe to let his large house and move to an hotel, but
Agraphena Petrovna pointed out that it was useless to
change anythmg before the winter. No one would rent a
town house for the summer; anyhow, he would have to live
and keep his thmgs somewhere. And so all his efforts to
the studen s live) led to nothing. Not only did everything
SV'AirtS^^"' ^'^ 'ri -^^^"ddenl^ filled wit'h ne^
activity. All that was made of wool or fur was taken out to
be aired and beaten. The gate-keeper, the boy, the cook, and
Corney himself took part in this activity All sorts of
wrrefaken'onr^.^"" ""' 'T "^^^' ^"^ '^^'°"« ""'^--^
were taken out and hung on a line, then the carpets and fur-
^TLr'' ^°"^^' °"^' ^"^ '^' gate-keeper and the boy
h se thin^'r' • "P '^^'' "^"^^"^^^ ^^"^^ ^"d stood beating
wUrtfe^;iroTn?pSnr • ^''' ''' ^°°"^^ '^-^ «"^'
When Nekhludoff crossed the vard or looked out of the
JreatTumtr'T.V ''"r?""^ °"' ""' "^ ^^P-'d at Z
great number of things there were, all quite useless THpiV
on y use, Nekhlu^doff thought, was the providing of exerde
andfhrcSok" ''"'"'' ^""'^' ^'^ gate-keener, the boy!
" But it's not worth while altering my manner of life
now/' he thought " while Maslova'f case Tnot decided
Besides, it is too difficult. It will alter of itself when she will
be set free or exiled, and I follow her "
Fanrr[n'?PP°'"*'? day Nekhludoff drove up to the advocate
^anarin s own splendid house, which was decorated with
witn all the evnpncive liiv.irv ••■•*) 1 -> u - ,
much irilp rr,,^„~l'"" "• •"'^"^> >-'^nc=si"g lo ihe possession of
whirh ini T^^' '■'■' "'?"^y acquired without labour,
which only those possess who grow rich suddenly. In the
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waiting-room, just as in a doctor's waiting-room, he found
many dejected-looking people sitting round several tables,
•on which lay illustrated papers meant to amuse them, await-
ang their turns to be admitted to the advocate. The advo-
cate s assistant sat in the room at a high desk, and having
recognised NekhludoflF, he came up to him and said he would
go and announce him at once. But the assistant had not
reached the door before it opened md the sounds of loud,
animated voices were heard; the voice of a middle-
aged sturdy merchant, with a red face and thick moustaches,
and the voice of Fanarin himself. Fanarin was also a mid-
dle-aged man of medium height, with a worn look on his
lace. Both faces bore the expression which you see on the
taces of those who have just concluded a profitable but not
■quite honest transaction.
"Your own fault, you know, my dear sir," Fanarin said
smiling. '
[] }^e'd all be in 'eaven were it not for hour sins "
Oh yes, yes ; we all know that," and both laughed un-
naturally. ^
^ "Oh." Prince Nekhludoflf! Please to step in." said Fan-
Z'l' m''^^J''T'I'^^' "?^^i"g^ once more to the merchant,
he led NekhludoflF into his business cabinet, furnished in a
severely correct style.
'•}^x"'! ^?"/S°^^^ " ^^'^ *^^ advocate, sitting down op-
posite Nekhludoff and trying to conceal a smile, apparently
still excited by the success of the accomplished transaction.
^^ 1 hanks ; I have come about Maslova's case "
Yes yes; directly! But oh, what rogues these fat
money bags are!" he said. "You saw this here fellow.
Why, he has about twelve million roubles, and he cannot
speak correctly ; and if he can get a twenty-five rouble note
teeth°" ^''" '*' ^'^'' ^"^ "^^^"^^ '^ °"* ^'*^ ^>s
i«"R'^xtTu,V5T" ^"'^^°"'''' and you say 'this here fel-
low, NekhludoflF thought, with an insurmountable feeline
of aversion towards this man who wished to show bv his free
and easy manner that he and NekhludoflF belonged to one and
the same camp, while his other clients belonged to another
He has worried me to death— a fearful scoundrel I felt
I must relieve my feelings." said the advocate, as if to excuse
his speaking about things that had no reference to business.
Well, how about your case? I have read it attentively but
/
n, he found
'eral tables,
hem, await-
The advo-
and having
id he would
int had not
ds of loud,
a middle-
noustaches,
also a mid-
ook on his
see on the
ble but not
inarin said,
lughed un-
said Fan-
merchant,
n'shed in a
;■ down op-
apparently
nsaction.
these fat
;re fellow.
he cannot
ouble note
t with his
s here fel-
t)le feeling
by his free
to one and
another,
rel. I felt
to excuse
> business,
tively, but
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^^ Well, then, what have you decided > "
"d f 1^ ^ , ' " "o^- no matter."
tJut he won t agree "
" t£!;"1"""":;' ?"<! ""^ =''™"'' fawned.
labour. Why don^ we In M„? 'k? T"/".^'^ ^"°™°«^
has beu, conducted aboSn'ablyThSeln'oJnTr'' '"• ."
app^ling. Still," he continued, « we can buft?v Jn'te? f^
sentence revoked Thi<i i« «,!,=, r V "»" 'fy to get the
took up several sheet, r>fj„ ^"^ ""^"^ ''°""'-" He
the Court of AoDeal rHmtn.fi . '"""^ sentences. " To
,-«,v + *u J ^PPeai> crimmal department etc etc Ar^-nrri
ing to the decisions, etc., the verdict e\c c;" o"i5 at^ ?^^"
pronounced f^nilfv ' r ' .*^ ^^'^*^'"' ^tc-» iso-and-so Maslova
^ison of the merchant SmeZff '"'S^. '^' ^^^^^ '^'^^^"^
iifp ^^rA ^V *u , ^"le'^^off* and has, according- to Stat-
e^^ ttt^nl^S^^^^Z^r^ !? Sibefia/ 'e^cl
it, he still felt DleaSire in H^tl ■ ^ ! \ •'"' '"''"? ^° "^'^'l to
^^rf^^,t^^:^J^^ •'--oed .«s
that," • "' '""' '^°'"'' '■"^ l'"" "^ ^'on whatever tor
on'dTv '"l,! *'''°';"'' '°'' ^PP="'' though. To continue- ' Sec
Ws s^Deech^^r'.r ?1*"»' ' ^henMaslova's advocate fn
speech tor the detence, wishing to characterise Mas-
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leva's personality, referred to the causes of her fall, he was
interrupted by the president calling him to order for the
alleged deviation from the direct subject. Yet, as has been
repeatedly pointed out by the Senate, the elucidation of the
criminal's characteristics and his or her moral standpoint
in general has a significance of the first importance in crim-
inal cases, even if only as a guide in the settling of the
question of imputation.' That's point two," he said, with a
look at Nekhludoflf.
" But he spoke so badly that no one could make anything
of it," Nekhludoflf said, still more astonished.
" The fellow's quite a fool, and of course could not
be expected to say anything sensible," Fanarin said,
laughing ; " but, all the same, it will do as a reason for
appeal. Thirdly : ' The president, in his summing up, con-
trary to the direct decree of section i, statute 8oi, of the
criminal code, omitted to inform the jury what the judicial
points are that constitute guilt; and did not mention that
having admitted the fac*^ of Maslova having administered
the poison to Smelkoflf, the jury had a right not to impute
the guilt of murder to her, since the proofs of wilful intent
to deprive Smelkoflf of life were absent, and only to pro-
nounce her guilty of carelessness resulting in the death of
the merchant, which she did not desire.' This is the chief
point."
" Yes ; but we ought to have known that ourselves. It
was our mistake."
" And now the fourth point," the advocate continued.
" The form of the answer given by the jury contained an
evident contradiction. Maslova is accused of wilfully
poisoning Smelkoflf, her one object being that of cupidity,
the only motive to commit murder she could have had. The
jury in their verdict acquit her of the intent to rob, or par-
ticipation in the stealing of valuables, from which it follows
that they intended also to acquit her of the intent to murder,
and only through a misunderstanding, which arose from the
incompleteness of the president's summing up, omitted to
express it in due form in their answer. Therefore an answer
of this kind by the jury absolutely demanded the applica-
tion of statutes 8i6 and 808 of the criminal code of pro-
cedure, i.e., an exnlanation bv the nresident to the iiirv of
the mistake made by them, and another debate on the ques-
tion of the prisoner's guilt."
II, he was
er for the
has been
on of the
tandpoint
; in crim-
ig of the
id, with a
anything
:ould not
rin said,
eason for
■ up, con-
)i, of the
e judicial
ition that
ninistered
.o impute
ful intent
y to pro-
death of
the chief
elves. It
ontinued.
tained an
wilfully
cupidity,
had. The
b, or par-
it follows
3 murder,
: from the
mitted to
m answer
i applica-
e of pro-
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'' Then why did the president not do it> "
.^^ I, too, should like to know why," Fanarin said, laugh-
;; Then the Senate will, of course, correct this error ? " *
ihat will all depend on who will preside there at the
time. Well, now, there it is. I have further sad^' he rnn
tmued, rapidly, " a verdict of this kind gave the' Courrno
right to condemn Maslova to be punished as a crimina" anS
to apply section 3, statute 771 of the penal code o her case
This IS a decided and gro.. violation of the basic principles
of our criminal law. In view of the reasons sta'ed I have
depends on what members will be present at the Senate
If you have any influence there you c^n but try "
1 do know some."
fnr'Ah "^''^ ' ?"• ^ ^u '5"'''^ ^^°"t ^*- Else they'll all go off
before thTretuTn' ' tII ^°" ""'' ^^7 *° ^^'^ '^'^^ ^ol^^
Deiore they return. Then, in case of failure, we have still
the possibility o appealing to His Majesty. This too de-
ffi". .'.''" l^' Pt"^^'^ ^"^"^"^^ >'«» ^^" bH"& to work In
InlTfU °°;- -^"^ "' ^°t'' '"'•^^^^: I '"^^^ ^s to the work"
mg of the petition, not the influence."
" ij^ ^°"* ^^^ ^^ to your fees ? "
My assistant will hand you the petition and tell you »
, One thing more. The Procurcur gave me a pass 'for
visiting this person in prison, but they tell me I must a ^o
get a permission from the governor in order To get an nSr-
;SelT!;Ts res^a-rt- J" ^"°^^- ''''' ''^^-^-
penetrable fool that you'll Lrcely be aWe I X anything
"Is it Maslennikoff?"
" Yes."
" I know him," said xNekhludofT, and got up to so At
low frn'"' ' ^T^^^ "^'>'' ""^^' bony^nub-nosfd,' yd-
low-faced woman flew into the room. It was the advocate's
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wife, who did not seem to be in the least bit troubkd by her
ugHness. She was attired in the most original manner ; she
■ seemed enveloped in something made of velvet and silk,
something yellow and green, and her thin hair was crimped.
She stepped out triumphantly into the ante-room, followed
by a tall, smiling man, with a greenish complexion, dressed
in a coat with silk facings, and a white tie. This was an
author. Nekhludoff knew him by sight.
She opened the cabinet door and said, " Anatole, you
must come tb me. Here is Simeon Ivanovitch, who will
read his poems, and you must absolutely come and read
about Garshin."
Nekhludoff noticed that she whispered something to her
husband, and, thinking it was something concerning him,
wished to go away, but she caught him up and said : " I
beg your pardon. Prince, I know you, and, thinking an in-
troduction superfluous, I beg you to stay and take part in
our literary matinee. It will be most interesting. M. Fana-
rin will read." '
" You see what a lot I have to do," said Fanarin, spread-
ing out his hands and smilingly pointing to his wife, as if to
show hovy impossible it was to resist so charming a creature.
Nekhludoff thanked the advocate's wife with extreme
politeness for the honour she did him in inviting him, but
refused the invitation with a sad and solemn look, and left
the room.
" What an affected fellow ! " said the advocate's wife,
when he had gone out.
In the ante-room the assistant handed him a ready-writ-
ten petition, and said that the fees, including the business
with the Senate and the commission, would come to i,ooo
roubles, and explained that M. Fanarin did not usually
undertake this kind of business, but did it onlv to obliee
Nekhludoff. ^
" And about this petition. Who is to sign it ? "
" The prisoner may do it herself, or if this is inconvenient,
M. Fanarin can, if he gets a power of attorney from her."
" Oh, no. I shall take the petition to her and get her to
sign it," said Nekhludoff, glad of the opportunity of seeing
her before the appointed day.
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€d by her
liner ; she
and silk,
; crimped.
, followed
1, dressed
is was an
itole, you
who will
and read
ng to her
ling him,
said: "I
ng an in-
:e part in
M. Fana-
1, spread-
e, as if to
creature,
extreme
him, but
, and left
te's wife,
ady-writ-
business
to I, GOO
t usually
to oblige
nvenient,
ti her."
et her to
of seeing
»;
CHAPTER XLVI.
A PRISON FLOGGING.
riHnJ.*nf%f "^'-^'""^ ^,^' ^^^^''' ^^histle sounded in the cor-
ridors of the prison, the iron doors of the cells rattled bare
eet pattered, heels clattered, and the prisone who acied as
dtgvis^n'" sS 'th^ '"• ^°^^'^°'^' filing the° at with
uisgustmg smells. The prisoners washed dresser! anri
theTt^a"' '°' ""^""' ^'^" ^^^"^ '- ^^' boilinrwat;rTor
The conversation at breakfast in all the cells was very
hat^dav One V^°r' '^'° ^"^""^'"^ ^^^^ ^^^'"^ ^o be flogged
tion a c^erk who hf 'K,•,7^^ ^°""^ "^^" ^^ ^°"ie ^^"^'^a-
tion, a clerk, who had killed his mistress in a fit of iealouw
His fellow-prisoners liked him because he was nierrv and
i:rTe knevv thVla'"' ''""r^^' f"^ ti;;?fso7amhor'
nnf t1 f ^ ^^^^ ^"'' '"S'sted on their being carried
out Therefore he was disliked by the authorities. ^
whn r/i "^^t' ''^^°'^ ^ J^'^^'" '^'""^^ one of the scavengers
took h 'P" TT '°"P °^^'- h'^ "^^^ ""'form. \ a"ufev
lu?'to sXlfritir"^^'-' ^^^^"^ ^'^^^ '^ -- -^ ^--
" I'll teach you the law," said the jailer, and gave \'asi-
hev a scolding. Vasiliev replied in like mannef and ^he
jailer was going to hit him, but Vasiliev seized t'W jailer's
hands, held them fast for about three minutes and after
givmg the hands a twist, pushed the jailer out of the door
The jader complained to the inspector, who ordered Vasi-
liev to be put into a solitary cell. "raerea v asi
The solitary cells were a row of dark closets Inrkerl fm^
outside, and there were neither beds! nor cSsno^
floo^'^ir .V^"' '^'' '""^^^^^ ^'^ to ^'t or ife on the cHrty
fbor, while the rats, of which there were a great man v in
those cells ran across them. The rats were^ so bold thl"
he^'i^ ; v' ^^^^^'•^•^.the prisoners, and even attactd
tnem If they stopped moving. \'asiliev said he would not
go into the solitary cell, because he had not done anylng
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wrong ; but they used force. Then he began struggHng, and
two other prisoners helped him to free himself from the
jailers. All the jailers assemuled, and among them was
Petrov, who was distinguished for his strength. The pris-
oners got thrown down and pushed into the solitary cells.
The governor was immediately informed that something
very like a rebellion had taken place. And he sent back an
order to flog the two chief offenders, Vasiliev and the tramp,
Nepomnishy, giving each thirty strokes with a birch rod.
The flogging was appointed to take place in the women's in-
terviewing-room.
All this was known in the prison since the evening, and it
was being talked about with animation in all the cells.
Korableva, Khoroshavka, Theodosia, and Maslova sat
together in their corner, drinking tea, all of them flushed and
animated by the vodka they had drunk, for Maslova, who
now had a constant supply of vodka, freely treated her com-
panions to it.
" He's not 'been a-rioting, or anything," Korableva said,
referring to Vasiliev, as she bit tiny pieces off a lump of
sugar with her strong teeth, " He only stuck up for a chum,
'cause it's not lawful to strike prisoners nowadays."
" And he's a fine fellow, I've heard say," said Theodosia,
who sat bareheaded, with her long plaits round her head, on
a log of wood opposite the shelf bedstead on which the tea-
pot stood.
" There, now, if you were to ask him," the watchman's
wife said to Maslova (by him she meant Nekhludoff).
" I shall tell him. He'll do anything for me," Maslova
said, tossing her head, and smiling.
" Yes, but when is he coming ? and they've already gone to
fetch them," said Theodosia. " It is terrible," she added,
with a sigh.
" I once did see how they flogged a peasant in the village.
Father-in-law, he sent me once to the village elder. Well,
I went, and there "... The watchman's wife began her
long story, which was interrupted by the sound of voices
and steps in the corridor above them.
The women were silent, and sat listening.
" There they are, hauling him along, the devils ! " Kho-
roshavka said. " They'll do him to death, they will. The
jailers are so enraged with him because he never would give
in to them."
■gling, and
from the
them was
The pris-
itary cells,
something
It back an
the tramp,
birch rod.
omen's in-
ing, and it
;lls.
aslova sat
ushed and
lova, who
1 her com-
)leva said,
a lump of
3r a chum,
rheodosia,
r head, on
:h the tea-
atchman's
ff).^
' Maslova
ly gone to
he added,
he village.
er. Well,
began her
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finUh At^ *'"J^* ^^^i" upstairs, and the watchman's wife
finished her story of how she was that frightened when si e
^de turtd'lt' th" '"'.f " ^^" «°^^^"^ ^ Peasanrher in!
SKle turned at the sight, and so on. Khoroshavka related
Thl Th'^^°^-^^^ ''''" ^""SSed, and never uttered a sound
Then Theodosia put away the tea things, and Korableva and
the watchman's wife took up their sewing. Mdsova sat
down on the bedstead, with her arms round^her kneeldul
and depressed. She was about to lie down and tiVto lleeo
when^the woman warder called her into the offiS to see^a
'' Now, mind, and don't forget to tell him about us " the
old woman (Menshova) said, while Maslova was arraiiffine
the kerchief on her head before the dim looking-glass "^wf
did not set fire to the house, but he himself, the lend did i^
5envZ^'"v "^ ^'"; "^V"' ""^ ^"^ "°t ^^"^« h^ soil by'
•n^ ,?u- X,°" J"st tell to ask to see my Mitri Mitri
will tell him all about it, as plain as can be.^ Ju t ihink o
Srwhll^he^'the r !r ^"^°" "^^" -^ --^ dS^fany
It'her man's ^if;;"' " '"^°^"^ ''"^^^' ^' *^^ P"^' ^^'^
" Pn^^'nT ^^^}^<' remarked Korableva.
nose ht ""7.^ " *?" ^''"'" answered Maslova. " Sup-
f^f ^ • u^ ^"P^^^'' ^'■OP' "St to keep up courage "she
added, with a wink ; and Korableva poured out half f ^uo of
vodka which Maslova drank. Then, havhig wiped ^her
rnouth and repeating the words "Just io keep ^up courage"'
arg"1he"co'r:lr';""'^^ ^^^ folIow'ed'theTafd^er
T1
f!
s!" Kho-
ivill. The
/ould give
Mil!
1
1 -■
i
r
■^■
> :! 1
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CHAPTER XLVII.
NEKHLUDOFF AGAIN VISITS MASLOVA.
NEKHLtJDOFF had to wait in the hall for a long time. When
he had arrived at the prison and rung at the entrance door^
he handed the permission of the Procureur to the jailer on
duty who met him.
" No, no," the jailer on duty said hurriedly, " the inspec-
tor is engaged."
" In the office?" asked Nekhludoflf.
" No, here in the interviewing-room."
" Why, is it a visiting day to-day? "
" No ; it's special business."
"I should like to see him. What am I to do?" said
Nekhludoflf.
" When the inspector comes out you'll tell him wait
a bit," said the jailer.
At this moment a sergeant-major, with a smooth, shiny
face and moustaches impregnated with tobacco smoke, came
out of a side door, with the gold cords of his uniform glis-
tening, and addressed the jailer in a severe tone.
" What do you mean by letting any one in here ? The
office. . . ."
" I was told the inspector was here," said Nekhludoflf, sur-
prised at the agitation he noticed in the sergeant-major's
manner.
At this moment the inner door opened, and Petrov came
out, heated and perspiring.
" He'll remember it," he muttered, turning to the sergeant-
major. The latter pointed at Nekhludoflf by a look, and
Petrov knitted his brows and went out through a door at
the back.
" Who will remember it? Why do they all seem so con-
fused ? Why did the sergeant-major make a sign to him ? "
Nekhludoflf thought.
The sergeant-major, again addressing Nekhludoflf, said:
ne. When
nee door^
jailer on
le inspec-
0?" said
I wait
ith, shiny
)ke, came
orm glis-
re ? The
doflf, sur-
t-major's
rov came
sergeant-
ook, and
I door at
ti so con-
:o him?"
dAF, said :
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aJ? M Tm^^ "2^^^ ^^^^' P'^^'^ ^teP across to the office"
And Nekhludoff was about to comply when the insoector
came out of the door at the back, looking even more con'
he'siv n"lm''?'?'?'""^^^' ^"^ ^•^'^'■"■^ continually men
he saw Nek-hludoff he turned to the jailer.
the office/' ' ^^"^^ ^''^°^^' "'" 5, women's ward, taken to
Nekhhidor" T^' '^'' Y7' P'"^'^'" ^^ ^^'d' turning to
Tlittle rnl >h^ ^'''"^'? ^ '^""P ''^^'''^'^ ^"^ entered
chairi inT-S •''"' ^'"do^' a writing-table, and a few
^ AT- inspector sat down.
dres^neVJkhh^Hnff ^'!,7 t'^'^'" ^^ ^^'"^''J^^^' ^^^i" «d-
aressing iSekhludoff, and took out a cigarette
" You are tired, evidently," said Nekhludoff.
trvJnl' n° *?• whole of the service-the duties are verv
trymg. One tries to lighten their lot, and only makes i?
worse; my only thought is how to get away. Sv^heavy
Nekhludoff did not know what the inspector's oarticular
difficulties were, but he saw that to-day he was in a Decuharlv
dejected and hopeless condition, calling for pky ^ '' Yes ^
h'Ta fd * •• wt H "''^ ^''' '^•^^Y. ^°^ ^ '<-d-hearted man.''
ne said. Why do you serve in this capacity ? "
^^ I have a family." *^ ^ '
" But, if it is so hard "
mels^r'"' fLltZ d"°'' 'M%P°^«ible to be of use in some
measure, i soften down all I can. Another in mv olare
would conduct the affairs quite differently. Why, 7e have
more than 2.000 persons here. And what personsT One
^ou 'kno7 Titer TT ''^"^- /^ '' '''''' '^^^ ^^an done
^Uvinrth;^ " T», • *^^^ ^'1^^'° "^^"' 0"e cannot help
a fieMthat^ad lllV."?''*T ^'^"" '^'""^ Nekhludoff of
a ngnt Jhat had lately taken place among the convicts which
had ended by one man being killed convicts, wnich
The story was interrupted by the entrance of Maslova
who was accompanied by a jailer Masiova,
Nekhludoff saw her through the doorway before she had
noticed the inspector. She was following the warder brisklv
smiling and tossing her head. When she sa J the inspecto;
lonk'^^'^f"^^ -^i'l"^'^' ^"^ ^^^^^ ^' ^^^ with a frrghtened
bold^and'gTnt' ~-^' ^'^-ddrcssed Nek'hlS
" How d'you do? " she said, drawling out her words, and
ill
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smilingly took his hand and shook it vigorously, not like the
first time.
" Here, I've !>' ought you a petition to sign," said Nekhlu-
doff, rather surprised by the boldness with which she greeted
him to-day.
" The advocate has written out a petition which you will
have to sign, and then we shall send it to Petersburg."
" All right I That can be done. Anything you like," she
said, with a wink and a smile.
And Nekhludoft drew a folded paper from his pocket and
went up to the table.
"May she sign it here?" asked Nekhludoflf, turning to
the inspector.
" It's all right, it's all right ! Sit down. Here's a pen ; you
can write ? " said the inspector.
" I could at one time," she said ; and, after arranging her
skirt and the sleeves of her jacket, she sat down at the table,
smiled awkwardly, took the pen with her small, energetic
hand, and glahced at Nekhludoflf with a laugh.
Nekhludoflf told her what to write and pointed out the
place where to sign.
Sighing deeply as she dipped her pen into the ink, and
carefully shaking some drops oflf the pen, she wrote her
name.
" Is it all ? " she asked, looking from Nekhludoflf to the
inspector, and putting the pen now on the inkstand, now on
the papers.
" I have a few words to tell you," Nekhludoflf said, taking
the pen from her.
" All right ; tell me," she said. And suddenly, as if re-
membering something, or feeling sleepy, she grew serious.
The inspector rose and left the room, and Nekhludoflf re-
mained with her.
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it like the
1 Nekhlu-
le greeted
you will
like," she
Dcket and
jrning to
pen ; you
iging her
the table,
energetic
1 out the
ink, and
i^rote her
)ff to the
I, now on
id, taking
as if re-
ierious.
ludoff re-
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CHAPTER XLVIII.
MASLOVA REFUSES TO MARRY.
The decisive moment had come for Nekhludnff R« u. i
ing over theTab e so a" no, o be heZVv Z -^'r" ''^""■
"ugh^d -mfhari ^r^™' compliments," s2e said, and
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" Theirname's Menshoff. Well, will you do it? Such a fine
old thing, you know ; you can see at once she's innocent.
You'll do it, there's a dear," and she smiled, glanced up at
him, and then cast down her eves.
" All right. I'll find out about them," Nekhludoff said,
more and more astonished by her free-and-easy manner.
" But I was going to speak to you about myself. Do you re-
member what I told you last time? "
" You said a lot last time. What was it you told me ? " she
said, continuing to smile and to turn her head from side to
side.
" I said I had come to ask you to forgive me," he began.
"What's the use of that? Forgive, forgive, where's the
good of "
" To atone for my sin, not by mere words, but in deed. I
have made up my mind to marry you."
An expression of fear suddenly came over her face. Her
squinting eyes> remained fixed on him, and yet seemed not to
be looking at him.
" What's that for? " she said, with an angry frown.
" I feel that it is my duty before God to do it."
" What God have you found now ? You are not saying
what you ought to. God, indeed ! What God ? You ought
to have remembered God then," she said, and stopped with
her mouth open. It was only now that Nekhludoff noticed
that her breath smelled of spirits, and that he understood the
cause of her excitement.
" Try and be calm," he said.
" Why should I be calm ? " she began, quickly, flushing
scarlet. " I am a convict, and you are a gentleman and a
prince. There's no need for you to soil yourself by touching
me. You go to your princesses ; my price is a ten-rouble
note."
" However cruelly you may speak, you cannot express
what I myself am feeling," he said, trembling all over ; " you
cannot imagine to what extent I feel mvself guiltv towards
you."
" Feel yourself guilty? " she said, angrily mimicking him.
" You did not feel so then, but threw me lOO roubles. That's
your price."
" I know, I knov>' ; but what is to be done now ? " said
Nekhludoff. " I have decided not to leave you, and what I
have said I shall do."
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Licli a fine
innocent.
;ed up at
doff said,
manner.
•o you re-
me? " she
m side to
began,
lere's the
1 deed. I
ace. Her
led not to
'n.
ot saying
""ou ought
jped with
ff noticed
-stood the
, flushing
lan and a
touching
:en-rouble
t express
;er ; " you
Y towards
king him.
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w?" said
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^^ Katusha, he said, touching her hand
v^„' " ^? ''•'■''^'- I am a convict and you a prince and
J he jailer came up to them.
wonW"^'" ^°" '^'"'^''"^ "P this row for? That
;; Let her alone, please," said Nekhludoff.
^^ bhe must not forget herself," said the jailer
turnrd'o thTwii^dof '' "'' ^^'^^^"^°^' ^^' ''^^ i^^- -
Maslova sat down again, dropping her eves and firmlv
clasping her small hands. t;>es ana nrmly
Nekhludoff stooped over her, not knowing what to do
^^ You do not believe me ? " he said.
Ihat you mean to marrv me? It will never he I'll
rather hang myself. So there! " "
;; Well, still I shall go on serving you."
T .m Sr' ^°"'' ^u^''\ ^"'y ^ ^°"'t want anything from vou
Lulie fe/''"he act"? ^"'/f ^'^ ''''' ^^X^
ir \u\' ! rr ^"^ added, and began to cry oiteouslv
tim^tVpar" '""' "^ '^''" ""'' ■■'''"'"''^'' 'hem that it was
Maslova rose.
„, ^?": \3SS' you'll have rare times now," Korableva said
when Maslova returned to the cell. '< Seems he's ^iS
svveet on you ; make the most of it while he'Hfter voi^ H?il
help vou out. Rich people can do anything " ^ ^' "
muskaf'voic'e' '°'wT''^''^ '^'' watchman's wife, with her
musical vo ce. When a poor man thinks of getting mar-
ried, there s many a slip 'twixt the cup and tlfelip f but a
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rich man need only make up his mind and it's done. We
knew a toff like that duckie. What d'you think he did? "
" Well, have you spoken about my affairs ? " the old
woman asked.
But Maslova gave her fellow-prisoners no answer ; she lay
down on the shelf bedstead, her squinting eyes fixed on a
corner of the room, and lay there until the evening.
A painful struggle went on in her soul. What Nekhludoff
had told her called up the memory of that world in which
she had suffered and which she had left without having
understood, hating it. She now feared to wake from the
trance in which she was living. Not having arrived at any
conclusion when evening came, she again bought some
vodka and drank with her companions.
you
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Dne.
did?'
the
old
r ; she lay
xed on a
ekhliidoff
in which
it having
from the
ed at any
jht some
CHAPTER XLIX.
• VERA DOUKHOVA.
btel-Z ^"hTr He" f' *^ whole horro? of whit' had
plaved with a sensation nf ^1/° Z^-" ^i'"" Nekhludoff had
breast, ca^e up and handed h,;;, aTole wf.h^^'at oTn^f.
m an unnatural manner. """^""^ The jailer spoke
Nekhludoff was surprised that a iaJl^r r.( *u j ,
political prisoners wer^ Snf ct! 1^? °* *^^ ^^''^ ^^ere
Howeve. he .00. .he note^L^^ dTon^ 4t i;,^ t ^.^e
arose m me. Ask for a nermJccTon ^ se n T "^ ^°"
fi'ii
^^ I
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Vera Doukhova had been a school-teacher in an out-of-
the-way village of the Novgorod Government, where Nekh-
ludoff and some friends of his had once put up while bear
huntingi Nekhludoflf gladly and vividly recalled those old
days, and his acquaintance with Doukhova. It was just be-
fore Lent, in an isolated spot, 40 miles from the railway.
The hunt had been successful; two bears had been killed;
and the company were having dinner before starting on their
return journey, when the master of the hut where they were
putting up came in to say that the deacon's daughter
wanted to speak to Prince Nekhludoflf. " Is she pretty ? "
some one asked. " None of that, please," Nekhludoflf said,
and rose with a serious look on his face. Wiping his
mouth, and wondering what the deacon's daughter might
want of him, he went into the host's private hut.
There he found a girl with a felt hat and a warm cloak on
• — a sinewy, ugly girl ; only her eyes with their arched brows
were beautiful.
" Here^ miss, speak to him," said the old housewife ;
" this is the prince himself. I shall go out meanwhile."^
" In what way can I be of service to you ? " Nekhludoflf
asked.
" J — X — I see you are throwing away your money on
stich nonsense — on hunting," began the girl, in great con-
fusi.^n. " I know — I only want one thing — to be of use to
the people, and I can do nothing because I know nothing."
Her eyes were so truthful, so kind, and her expression of
resoluteness and yet bashfulness was so touching, that
Nekhludoflf, as it often happened to him, suddenly felt as if
he were in her position, understood, and sympathised.
"What can I do, then?"
" I am a teacher, but should like to follow a course of
study ; and I am not allowed to do so. That is, not that I
am not allowed to ; they'd allow me to, but I have not got
the means. Give them to me, and when I have finished the
course I shall repay you. I am thinking the rich kill bears
and give the peasants drink ; all this is bad. Why should
they not do good ? I only want 80 roubles. But if you don't
wish to, never mind," she added, gravely.
"On the contrary, I am very grateful to you for this
opportunitv. ... I will bring it at once," said Nekh-
ludoflf.
He went out into the passage, and there met one of his
in an out-of-
tvhere Nekh-
p while bear
ed those old
was just be-
the railway.
been killed;
ting on their
!re they were
I's daughter
5he pretty ? "
hliidoff said,
Wiping his
ighter might
t.
arm cloak on
irched brows
1 housewife;
mwhile."
' Nekhludoflf
ir money on
in great con-
be of use to
ow nothing."
expression of
uching, that
enly felt as if
ithised.
f a course of
is, not that I
have not got
e finished the
ich kill bears
Why should
It if you don't
you for this
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comrades, who had been overhearing his conversation
^7o"A"°K^''^ !? ^'\ "^^«^"&' Nekhlfdoff got tirmone;
out of his bag and took it to her money
you,?heS'' ^"^ "°' '^'"'^ "'"' '' '' ^ ^^^° should than-
It was pleasant to remember all this now; pleasant to re
member that he had nearly had a quarrel w^^ran officer"
who tried to make an objectionable joke of it, and how an
other of his comrades had taken his part, which led to a
closer friendship between them. How succersfil the whole
of that hunting expedition had been, and Tovv han^^^^^^^
The Hn/n^f'"l '.''"'"'".^ 'Z ^^^ ^^"^^^ station tKight
.tJ^t ^^^^^^^' ^^'^ ^^'■^^^ i" tandem, glide qu^cklv
along the narrow road that lies through the forest now
between high trees, now between low fir! weighed down bv
li/ht K /'•'''i'^^l"^ ^""^P^ °" their braShes Tred
light flashes in the dark, some one lights an aromatic ci/ar
skdge-^uo'to'hls'k" '"^^^' '^^P^ ^"""-^ fromlVgfto
Sledge, up to his knees in snow, and while putting- thinls fn
rights he speaks about the elk which are novv gfin^ "bou^
on the deep snow and gnawing the bark off theTspen trees
o. the bears that are lying asleep in their deep hidden dens
and his breath comes v.arm through the openinJin Vh^
but fho^^'n .t^^- ''''' '^""^ ^''^ ?° NekhCff^ minS
but, above all, the joyous sense of health, strength and^free'
?ha"'trfu; Ho.'k ^""f '"^^'^"u^ ^" *h^ frostf^so deeply
tnat the fur cloak is drawn tightly on his chest the fine
snow drops off the low branches on to his face his bodv^s
warm, his face feels fresh, and his soul is fS from carL
nowTcnl',' 'T: ?' ^^^^^^- How beautiful ft C And
now, O God ! what torment, what trouble !
prifo^fedt'^sucr 5°"'^?' T^ ^ revolutionist and im-
pnsonea as such. He must see her, especially as she orom-
ised to advise him how to lighten Masbva's lot ^
let one of his
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CHAPTER L.
THE VICE-GOVERNOR OF THE PRISON.
Awaking early the next morning, Nekhludoff remem-
bered what he had done the day before, and was seized
with fear.
But in spite of this fear, he was more determined than
ever to continue what he had begun.
Conscious of a sense of duty, he left the house and went
to see Maslennikoflf in order to obtain from him a permis-
sion to visit Maslova in prison, and also the Menshofifs —
mother arid son — about whom Maslova had spoken to him.
Nekhludoff had known this Maslennikoflf a long time;
they had been in the regiment together. At that time
Maslennikoflf was treasurer to the regiment. He was a
kind-hearted and zealous oflficer, knowing and wishing to
know nothing beyond the regiment and the Imperial fam-
ily. Now Nekhludoflf saw him as an administrator, who
had exchanged the regiment for an administrative oflfice in
the government where he lived. He was married to a rich
and energetic woman, who had forced him to exchange mili-
tary for civil service. She laughed at him, and caressed
him, as if he were her own pet animal. Nekhludbflf had
been to see them once during the winter, but the couple
were so uninteresting to him that he had not gone again.
At the sight of Nekhludoflf Maslennikoflf's face beamed
all over. He had the same fat red face, and was as corpu-
lent and as well dressed as in his military days. Then, he
used to be always dressed in a well-brushed uniform, made
according to the latest fashion, tightly fitting his chest and
shoulders ; now, it was a civil service uniform he wore, and
that, too, tightly fitted his well-fed body and showed oflf his
broad chest, and was cut according to the latest fashion. In
spite of the diflFerence in age (Maslennikoflf was 40), the two
men were very familiar with one another.
" Halloo, old fellow ! How good of you to come ! Let
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rmined than
ise and went
come ! Let
us go and see my wife. I have just ten minutes to spare
th Tead o^the "r^n ""^ ^'"' ^1 ^"^^' y°" '^"-- I --at
luu^i- he Government administration," he said un-
able to disguise his satisfaction. '
I have come on business."
"What is it?" said MaslennikofY, in an anxious and
severe tone, putting himself at once . A his guard
in in nrTson " F.VT' ''^°"?. ^ -^"^ l^'^ '""^h interested
Sews?emV''inrT\'^'!!:,^ P"'^" Maslennikoflf's face
office and nof In tf ""'"^ ''^' *° ^?^^^ ^'^ '"^^'"^i^^^' '" the
fr^M^; 5 ?^ *^'^ common visiting-room. I have been
told it depended on you "
hour/' remember, I am monarch only for an
to lecher V'" ^""^ ^'""^ "'^ ^" ""'^^^ that will enable me
" It's a woman ? "
;; Yes."
" What is she there for ? "
;; Poisoning, but she has been unjustly condemned."
iurv ,7c'.l« 7 ^? -^fl^ '^' ^^^^'^ J"^tice administered by
but Tt Cn'f h!^ ,' ^ ^ ^"^'^ >^°" ^° "°t agree with me,
added, giving utterance to an opinion he had for the last
tiTe p'anTr^" '' T w''" '^^'^"^ '"/^^ retrograde Conserv"!
tive paper. I know you are a Liberal."
else" Nekhlu^doff J^'^^'m-^ ^"? ^^l^\her^\ or something
else, Wekh udofr said, smiling; it always surprised him to
find himself ranked with a political partv and calkd a
Liberal when he maintain.n [hat a mln should be heard
elZ^l^^^'^}''^^^^' ^^^^ '^^^^'•^ being tried all men were
b'u tpectllv t°ho^./' f 7^^ *° '^ "^-^^-^^^ and beat n!
^^ And whom have you for an advocate ? "
^^ 1 have spoken to Fandrin."
r.. ?^^.- '"^j: Fanarin! " said Maslennikofif, with a erimace
recollecting how this Fandrin had examinid him af a wit-'
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ness at a trial the year before and had, in the politest man-
ner, held him up to ridicule for half an hour.
"I should not advise you to have anything to do with
him. Fanarin est un Itomme tare."
" I have one more request to make," said Nekhludofif,
without answering him. " There's a girl whom I knew long
ago, a teacher ; she is a very pitiable little thing, and is now
also imprisoned, and would like to see me. Could you give
me a permission to visit her? "
MaslennikofT bent his head on one side and considered.
" She's a poHtical one? "
" Yes, I have been told so."
"Well, you see, only relatives get permission to visit
political prisoners. Still, I'll give you an open order.
Je sais que votis n'ahuseres pas. What's the name of your
protegee? Doukhova? Elle est jolie? "
" Hideuse."
Masleni^ikoflf shook his head disapprovingly, went up
to the table, and wrote on a sheet of paper, with a printed
heading: "The bearer. Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekh-
ludofif, is to be allowed to interview in the prison of!ice the
meschdnka Maslova, and also the medical assistant, Dou-
khova," and he finished with an elaborate flourish.
"Now you'll be able to see what order we have got there.
And it IS very difficult to keep order, it is so crowded, es-
pecially with people condemned to exile; but I watch
strictly, and love the work. You will see they are very
comfortable and contented. But one must know how to
deal with them. Only a few days ago we had a little trouble
—insubordination; another would have called it mutiny,
and would have made many miserable, but with us it all
passed quietly. We must have solicitude on one hand, firm-
ness and power on the other," and he clenched the fat
white turquoise-ringed fist, which issued out of the starched
cuff of his shirt sleeve, fastened with a gold stud. " Solici-
tude and firm power."
" Well, I don't know about that," said NekhludofiF. " I
went there twice, and felt very much depressed."
" Do you know, you ought to get acquainted with the
Countess Passek," continued MaslennikofT, growing talka-
tive. "She has given herself up entirelv to this sort of
work. Elle fait beauconp de bien. Thanks to her— and
perhaps I may add without false modesty, to me— every-
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thing has been changed, changed in such a .vay that the
former horrors no longer exist, and they are really quite
comfortable there. Weh, you'll see. There's Fan/rin I
do not know him personally ; besides, my social position
keeps our ways apart; but he is positively a bad man and
" Well, thank you," NekhludofT said, taking the oaoer
comrTde^"^ '"'"^ ^"'*^"' ^' ^^"^^ ^^^^'^^^ '° ^'' ^^''"^^'^
'!. ^^^ ^°"'* y°" S° ^" to see my wife? "
^^ No, pray excuse me ; I have no time now "
Dear me, why she will never forgive me," said Mas-
lennikoff, accompanying his old acquaintance down to the
first landing, as he was in the habit of doing to persons of
not the greatest but the second greatest importance? with
morem/' ''' Nekhludofif ; " now do go in, if only for a
and "JL^frli^f °^ remained firm ; and while the footman
and the door-keeper rushed to give him his stick and over-
coat, and opened the door, outside of which there stood a
policeman, Nekhludofif repeated that he really couMno^
come in. ■' ^'-'""^ '"-"•
I wXl l^'"' """ Thursday please. It is her 'at-home:
thrstai?" ^""^ ''°"'^' ""^^"^ Maslennikoflf from
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CHAPTER LI.
THE CELLS.
Nekhludoff drove that day straight from Maslennikoff's
to the prison, and went to the inspector's lodging, which he
now knew. He was again struck by the sounds of the same
piano of inferior quality ; but this time it was not a rhap-
sody that was being played, but exercises by Clementi, again
with the same vigour, distinctness, and quickness. The ser-
vant with the bandaged eye said the inspector was in, and
showed Nekhludoff to a small drawing-room, in which there
stood a soft and, in front of it, a table, with a large lamp,
which stood on a piece of crochet work, and the paper shade
of which was burnt on one side. The chief inspector en-
tered, with his usual sad and weary look.
" Take a seat, please. What is it you want ? " he said,
buttoning up the middle button of his uniform.
" I have just been to the vice-governor's, and got this
order from him. I should like to see the prisoner Maslova."
Markova ? " asked the inspector, unable to hear dis-
tinctly because of the music.
''Maslova!"
" Well, yes." The inspector got up and went to the door
whence proceeded dementi's roulades.
" Mary, can't you stop just a minute ? " he said, in a voice
that showed that this music was the bane of his life. " One
can't hear a word."
The piano was silent, but one could hear the sound of
reluctant steps, and some one looked in at the door.
The inspector seemed to feel eased by the interval of si-
lence, lit a thick cigarette of weak tobacco, and offered one
to Nekhludoflf.
NekhludoflF refused.
" What I want is to see Maslova."
" Oh, yes, that can be managed. Now, then, what do you
want ? " he said, addressing a little girl of five or six, who
came into the room and walked up to her father with her
head turned towards Nekhludoflf, and her eyes fixed on him.
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There, now, you'll fall down," said the inspector, smil-
ing, as the httle girl ran up to him, and, not looking where
she was gomg, caught her foot in a little rug.
'I Well, then, if I may, I shall go."
" It's not very convenient to see Maslova to-dav," said the
mspector.
"How's that?"
" Well, you know, it's all your own fault," said the in-
spector, with a slight smile. " Prince, give her no money
into her hands. If you like, give it me. I will keep it for
ner. You see, you gave her some money yesterday; she got
some spirits (it's an evil we cannot manage to root out)
and to-day she is' quite tipsy, even violent "
'I Can this be true?"
" Oh, yes, it is. I have even been obliged to have recourse
to severe measures, and to put her into a separate cell She is
a quiet woman in an ordinary way. But please do not give
her any money. These people are so "
M Y^^^^\ ^i? happened the day before came vividly back to
JNekhludoif s mind, and again he was seized with fear.
And Doukhova, a political prisoner; might I see her?"
r.., -'t ^°" ^^^^'" ^^^*^ *^^^' inspector. He embraced the
httle girl, who was still looking at Nekhludoff, got up, and
tenderly motioning her aside, went into the ante-room.
Hardly had he got into the overcoat which the maid helped
him to put on, and before he had reached the door, the dis-
tinct sounds of dementi's roulades again began.
She entered the Conservatoire, but there is such disorder
there. She has a great gift," said the inspector, as they
went down the stairs. " She means to play at concerts "
The inspector and Nekhludoff arrived at the prison The
gates were instantly opened as they appeared. The i'ailers
with their fingers lifted to their caps, followed the inspector
with their eyes. Four men, with their heads half shaved
who were carrying tubs filled with something, cringed when
they saw the inspector. One of them frowned angrily, his
black eyes glaring.
" Of course a talent like that must be developed ; it would
ro°i J'^j'^'^a^u' ^"^ '" ^ '"^^^ ^°^g'"^' yo» J<"ow, it is
rather hard. The inspector went on with the conversation,
taking no notice of the prisoners.
" Who is it you want to see ? "
" Doukhova."
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" Oh, she's in the tower. You'll have to wait a little," he
said.
" Might I not meanwhile see the prisoners Menshoff.
mother and son, who are accused of incendiarism? "
" Oh, yes. Cell No. 21. Yes, they can be sent for."
*^ But might I not see Menshoff in his cell ? "
*' Oh, you'll find the waiting-room more pleasant."
*| No. I should prefer the cell. It is more interesting."
" Well, you have found something to be interested in !"
Here the assistant, a smartly-dressed officer, entered the
side door.
" Here, see the Prince into Menshoff's cell, No. 21," said
the inspector to his assistant, " and then take him to the
office. And I'll go and call What's her name? "
" Vera Doukhova."
The inspector's assistant was young, with dyed mous-
taches, and diflfusing the smell of eau-de-cologne. " This
way, please," he said to Nekhludoff, with a pleasant smile.
■" Our establishment interests you ? "
" Yes, it does interest me ; and, besides, I look upon it as a
duty to help a man who I heard was confined here, though
innocent."
The assistant shrugged his shoulders.
" Yes, that may happen," he said quietly, politely stepping
aside to let the visitor enter the stinking corridor first.
" But it also happens that they lie. Here we are."
The doors of the cells were open, and some of the pris-
oners were in the corridor. The assistant nodded slightly to
the jailers, and cast a side glance at the prisoners, who, keep-
mg close to the wall, crept back to their cells, or stood like
soldiers, with their arms at their sides, following the official
with their eyes. After passing through one corridor, the
assistant showed Nekhludoflf intu another to the left, sepa,
rated from the first by an iron door.
This corridor was darker, and smelt even worse than the
first. The corridor had doors on both sides, with little holes
in them about an inch in diameter. There was only an old
jailer, with an unpleasant face, in this corridor.
"Where is Menshoff?" asked the inspector's assistant
" The eighth cell to the left."
" And these? Are they occupied? " asked Nekhludoff.
" Yes, all but one."
a little," he
Menshoflf,
n?"
; for."
nt."
!resting."
sted in !"
entered the
3. 21," said
him to the
e?"
yed mous-
le. " This
isant smile.
ipon it as a
ire, though
ly stepping
ridor first.
»f the pris-
slightly to
who, keep-
stood like
the official
rridor, the
left, sepa/
ie than the
little holes
•nly an old
issistant.
:hludoff.
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NO. 21.
^ May I look in? " asked Nekhludoff.
Oh, certamly," answered the assistant, smiling, and
turned to the jailer with some question. Nekhludoff
looked mto one of the little holes, and saw a tall young man
pacing up and dovvn the cell. When the man heard some one
at the door he looked up with a frown, but continued walk-
mg up and down.
Nekhludoff looked into another hole. His eve met
another large eye looking out of the hole at him, and he
quickly stepped aside. In the third cell he saw a very small
man asleep on the bed, covered, head and all, with his prison
cloak In the fourth a broad-faced man was sitting with
his elbows on his knees and his head low down. At the
sound of footsteps this man raised his head and looked up.
His face, especially his large eyes, bore the • xpression of
hopeless dejection. One could see thn ,i di i not even
interest him to know who was looking into his cell Who-
hlm '^ S'?n M^'i^' evidently hoped for nothing good from
Cn.hnff' u°x^ ''"' '"i"!^ ^^^'^ ^^^^^' ^"^ went to
Menshoff s cell. No. 21, without stopping to look through
any more holes. The jailer unlocked ihe door and openedit
tJn'u^ r^":, T-^\ ^°"^ "^"'^' well-developed muscles, a
nmt n!? ' w^ 1 '"? ' '""T^ "y"' '*°°^ by the bed, hastily
putting on his cloak and coking at the newcomers with
a frightened face. Nekhludoff was specially struck bv the
,W ^i"""" -T' ^^^^ "^^'^ throwing frightened and inquir-
ing glances m turns at him, at the jailer, and at the assistant,
and back again.
;; Here's a gentleman wants to inquire into your affair."
1 hank you kindly.
ft,"^^''i'^^',/°''^ ^b°"t >'0"'" Nekhludoff said, going
throi^gh the cell up to the dirty grated window. " ?nH I
snouiu like to hear all about it from yourself "
Menshoff also came up to the window, and at once started
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telling his story, at first looking shyly at the inspector's as-
sistant, but growing gradually bolder. When the assistant
left the cell and went into the corridor to give some order
the man grew quite bold. The story was told with the ac-
icent and in the manner common to a most ordinary good
peasant lad. To hear it told by a prisoner dressed in this
degrading clothing, and inside a prison, seemed very
strange to Nekhludoflf. NekhludoflF listened, and at the
same time kept looking around him — at the low bedstead
with its straw mattress, the window and the dirty, damp
wall, and the piteous face and form of this unfortunate, dis-
figured peasant in his prison cloak and shoes, and he felt
sadder and sadder, and would have liked not to believe what
this good-natured fellow was saying. It seemed too dread-
ful to think that men could do such a thing as to take a
man, dress him in convict clothes, and put him in this hor-
rible place without any reason only because he himself had
been injured. And yet the thought that this seemingly
true story, told with such a good-natured expression on the
face, might be an invention and a lie was still more dreadful.
This was the story: The village public-house keeper had
«nticed the young fellow's wife. He tried to get justice by
all sorts of means. But everywhere the public-house keeper
managed to bribe the officials, and was acquitted. Once
Tie took his wife back by force, but she ran away next day.
Then he came to demand her back, but, though he saw her
when he came in, the public-house keeper told him she was
snot there, and ordered him to go away. He would not go,
so the public-house keeper and his servant beat him so that
they drew blood. The next day a fire broke out in the
public-house, and the young man and his mother were ac-
cused of having set the house on fire. He had not set it on
fire, but was visiting a friend at the time.
" And it is true that you did not set it on fire ? "
" It never entered my head to do it, sir. It must be my
enemy that did it himself. They say he had only just in-
sured it. Then they said it was mother and I that did it,
and that we had threatened him. It is true I once did go for
him, my heart couldn't stand it any longer."
"Can this be true?"
'' God is my witness it is true. Oh, sir, be so good "
and Nekhludoflf had some diflficulty to prevent him from
bowing down to the ground. " You see I am perishing
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pector's as-
le assistant
some order
/ith the ac-
inary good
ised in this
:med very
and at the
w bedstead
lirty, damp
tunate, dis-
and he felt
elieve what
too dread-
s to take a
in this hor-
limself had
seemingly
sion on the
re dreadful,
keeper had
t justice by
)use keeper
ted. Once
y next day.
he saw her
im she was
uld not go,
him so that
out in the
er were ac-
lot set it on
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wi?h1re7let^of Kin^'sl -r^" '' '''' ^'P'"^ '^^ *--
;; Are you ready ? " asked the assistant.
and lill do'^wh'at t'can'-" s'^d tl^T^l ' ^^ ^ '^^^y^'
mamed lookmg out through the little hole.
nust be my
nly just in-
that did it,
e did go for
good "
t him from
1 perishing
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CHAPTER LIII.
VICTIMS OF GOVERNMENT.
Passing back along the broad corridor (it was dinner
time, and the cell doors were open), among the men dressed
in their light yellow cloaks, short, wide trousers, and prison
shoes, who were looking eagerly at him, Nekhludoflf felt a
strange mixture of sympathy for them, and horror and per-
plexity at the conduct of those who put and kept them here,
and, besides, he felt, he knew not why, ashamed of himself
calmly examining it all.
In one iof the corridors, some one ran, clattering with his
shoes, in at the door of a cell. Several men came out from
here, and stood in NekhludoflF's way, bowing to him.
" Please, your honour (we don't know what to call you),
get our affair settled somehow."
" I am not an official. I know nothing about it."
" Well, anyhow, you come from outside ; tell somebody —
one of the authorities, if need be," said an indignant voice.
" Show some pity on us, as a human being. Here we are
suffering the second month for nothing."
" What do you mean? Why ? " said Nekhludoff.
" Why ? We ourselves don't know why, but are sitting
here the second month."
" Yes, it's quite true, and it is owing to an accident," said
the inspector. " These people were taken up because they
had no passports, and ought to have been sent back to
their native government ; but the prison there is burnt, and
the local authorities have written, asking us not to send
them on. So we have sent all the other passportless people
to their different governments, but are keeping these."
"What! For no other reason than that?" Nekhludoff
exclaimed, stopping at the door.
A crowd of about forty men, all dressed in prison clothes,
surrounded him and the assistant, and several be^an talk-
ing at once. The assistant stopped them.
" Let some one of you speak."
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A tall, good-looking peasant, a stone-mason, of about
fafty, stepped out from the rest. He told NekhludofY that
all of them had been ordered back to their homes and were
now being kept in prison because they had no passports, yet
they had passports which were only a fortnight overdue.
The same thing had happened every year ; they had many
times omitted to renew their passports till thev were over-
due, and nobody had ever said anything; but this year they
had been taken up and were being kept in prison the second
month, as if they were criminals.
" We are all masons, and belong to the same artel. We
are told that the prison in our government is burnt, but this
IS not our fault. Do help us."
Nekhludoflf listened, but ha lly understood what the
good-looking old man was saying, because his attention
was riveted to a large, dark-grey, many-legged louse that
was creeping along the good-looking man's cheek.
,, , 5°^.? t^^t? Is it p :Me for such a reason?" Nekh-
ludoft said, turning to 'v.> assistant.
" Yes, they should h^ . c been sent ofif and taken back to
their homes," calmly said the assistant, " but they seem to
have been forgotten or something."
Before the assistant had finished, a small, nervous man,
also in prison dress, came out of the crowd, and, strangely
contorting his mouth, began to say that they were beine
ill-used for nothing.
" Worse than dogs," he began.
" Now, now ; not too much of this. Hold your tong-ue
or you know " '
" What do I know ? " screamed the little man, desper-
ately. " What is our crime ? "
" Silence! " shouted the assistant, and the little man was
silent.
"But what is the meaning of all this?" Nekhludofif
thought to himself as he came out of the cell, while a hun-
dred eyes were fixed upon him through the openings of the
eel doors and from the prisoners that met him, making him
feel as if he were running the gauntlet.
" Is it really possible that perfectly innocent people are
kept here?" Nekhludofif uttered when thev left the cor-
ridor.
What would you have us do? They lie so. To hear
them talk they are all of them innocent
said the inspector's
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assistant, " But it does happen that some are really im-
prisoned for nothing."
" Well, these have done nothing."
"Yes, we must ; iniit it. Still, the people are fearfully
spoilt. There art such types — desperate fellows, with
whom one has to look sharp. To-day two of that sort had
to be punished."
"Punished? How?"
" Flogged with a birch-rod, by order."
" But corporal punishment is abolished."
" Not for such as are deprived of their rights. They are
still liable to it."
Nekhliidoff thought of what he had seen the day before
while waiting in the hall, and now understood that the pun-
ishment was then being inflicted, and the mixed feeling of
■curiosity, depression, perplexity, and moral nausea, that
grew into physical sickness, took hold of him more strongly
than evei* before.
Without listening to the inspector's assistant, or looking
round, he hurriedly left the coiridor, and went to the of-
fice. The inspector was in the office, occupied with other
business, and had forgotten to send for Doukhova. He
only remembered his promise to have her called when
NekhludoflF entered the office.
'• Sit down, please. I'll send for her at once," said the
inspector.
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CHAPTER LIV.
PRISONERS AND FRIENDS.
The office consisted of two rooms. The first room, with
a large, dilapidated stove and two dirty windows, had a
black hieasure for measuring the prisoners in one corner
and m another corner hung a large image of Christ, as is
usual m places where they torture people. In this room
stood several jailers. In the next room sat about twenty
persons, men and women in groups and in pairs, talking in
low voices. There was a writing table by the window.
Ihe inspector sat down by the table, and offered Nekh-
ludoff a chair beside him. Nekhludoff sat down, and looked
at the people in the room.
The first who drew his attention was a young man with a
pleasant face, dressed in a short jacket, standing in front of
a middle-aged woman with dark eyebrows, and he was
eagerly telling her something and gesticulating with his
hands. Beside them sat an old man, with blue spectacles,
holding the hand of a young woman in prisoner's clothes,
who was te ling him something. A schoolboy, with a fixed,
trightened look on his face, was gazing at the old man. In
one corner sat a pair of lovers. She was quite young and
pretty, and had short, fair hair, looked energetic, and was
elegantly dressed; he had fine features, wavy hair and
wore a rubber jacket. They sat in their corner and seemed
stupefied with love. Nearest to the table sat a grey-haired-
woman dressed in black, evidently the mother of a young
consumptive-looking fellow, in the same kind cf jacket : her
head lay on his shoulder. She was trying to say something
but the tears prevented her from speaking; she began sev-'
eral times, but had to stop. The young man held a paper
in his hand, and, apparently not knowing what to do,' kept
folding and pressing it with an angry look on his face
Beside them, was a short-haired, stout, rosy girl, with
very prominent eyes, dressed in a grev dress and a cape;
she sat beside the weeping mother, tenderly stroking her.
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Everything about this girl was beautiful ; her large, white
hands, her short, wavv hair, her firm nose and lips, but the
chief charm of her face lay in her kind, truthful hazel eyes.
The beautiful eyes turned away from the mother for a
niioment when Nekhludofif came in, and met his look. But
she turned back at once and said something to the mother
Not far from the lovers a dark, dishevelled man, with a
gloomy face, sat angrily talking to a beardless visitor, who
looked as if he belonged to the Scoptsy sect.
At the very door stood a young man in a rubber jacket,
who seemed more concerned about the impression he pro-
duced on the onlooker than about what he was saying.
Nekhludoff, sitting by the inspector's side, looked rounJ
with strained curiosity. A little boy with closely-cropped
f^air came up to him and addressed him in a thin little voice.
" And whom are you waiting for ? "
Nekhludoff was surprised at the question, but looking at
the boy, and seeing the serious little face with its bright, at-
tentive eyes fixed on him, answered him seriously that he
was waiting for a woman of his acquaintance.
'' Is she, then, your sister? " the boy asked.
^' No, not my sister," NekhludoflF answered in surpr.e.
^^ And with whom are you here? " he inquired of the boy.
I? With mamma; she is a political one," he replied.
Mary Pavlovna, take Kolia!" said the inspector, evi-
dently considering Nekhludoff s conversation with the boy
illegal.
Mary Pavlovna, the beautiful girl who ' ?d attracted
Nekhludoflf's attention, rose tall and erect, ana with firm,
almost manly steps, approached Nekhludoff and the boy.
"What is he asking you? Who you are?" she inquired
with a slight smile, and looking straight into his face Ai^ith a
trustful look in her kind, prominent eyes, and as simply as
if there could be no doubt whatever that she was and must
be on sisterly terms with everybody.
" He likes to know everything," she said, looking at the
boy with so sweet and kind a smile that both the boy and
Nekhludoff were obliged to smile back.
"^ He was asking me whom I have come to see."
" Mary Pavlovna, it is against the rules to speak to
strangers. You know it is," said the inspector,
" All right, all right," she said, and went back to the con-
sumptive lad's mother, holding KoHa's little hand in her
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hrge. white one, while he continued gazing up into her
specl^n°'' '' '^"' ""'" ^°>^- " Nekhludoff asked of the in-
oriso^''' ^IwT ' • ^ P°"'''^? P"'°"^^' ^"d he was born in
prison, said the inspector, in a pleased tone as if ^lad o
point out how exceptional his establishment was ^
is It possible?
'' Is fui "°''' ^^ '^ ^°'"^ *« Siberia with her."
^^ And that young girl ? "
"I cannot answer your question," said the insoerfnr
shrugging his shoulders. "Besides, here is DoukK" '
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CHAPTER LV.
VERA DOUKHOVA EXPLAINS.
Through a door, at the back of the room, entered, with
a wriggling gait, the thin, yellow Vera Doukhova, with her
large, kind eyes.
"Thanks for having come," she said, p-essing Nekh-
ludoflf's hand. " Do you remember me ? Let us sit down."
" I did not expect to see you like this."
" Oh, I am very happy. It is so delightful, so delightful,
that I desire nothing better," said Vera Doukhova, with the
usual expression of fright in the large, kind, round eyes fixed
on NekhludoflF, and twisting the terribly thin, sinewy neck,
surrounded by the shabby, crumpled, dirty collar of her
bodice.
Nekhludoflf asked her how she came to be in prison.
In answer she began relating all a' out her affairs with
great animation. Her speech was intermingled with a great
many long words, such as propaganda, disorganisation,
social groups, sections and sub-sections, about which she
seemed to think everybody knew, but which Nekhltidof!
had never heard of.
She told him all the secrets of the Nardovolstvo,* evi-
dently convinced that he was pleased to hear them. Nekh-
ludoff looked at her miserable little neck, her thin, unkempt
hair, and wondered why she had been doing all these
strange things, and why she was now telling all this to
him. He pitied her, but not as he had pitied Mensh. ff, the
peasant, kept for no fault of his own in the stinking prison.
She was pitiable bee use of the confusion that filled her
mind. It was clear that she considered herself a heroine,
and was ready to give her life for a cause, though she could
hardly have explained what that cause was and in what its
success would lie.
^ The business that Vera Doukhova wanted to see Nekh-
ludofT about was the following : A friend of hers, who had
not even belonged to their " sub-group," as she expressed
* Literally, "People's Freedom," a revolutionary movement.
tered, with
a, with her
ing Nekh-
sit down."
delightful,
a, with the
'. eyes fixed
lewy neck,
)ar of her
Drison.
flfairs with
'ith a great
ganisation,
which she
NTekhludofT
stvo,* evi-
n. Nekh-
!, unkempt
all these
all this to
nsh 'ff, the
ng prison.
filled her
a heroine,
she could
n what its
see Nekh-
, who had
expressed
irement.
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it, had been arrested with her about five months before and
Zhibrd' book' P^^-P-J°-ky fortress becaursome
prohibited books and papers (which she had been
asked to keep) had been found in her possession vfra
Doukhova felt herself in some measure to blame for he?
nend s arrest, and implored Nekhludoff. who liTd connec-
snfsTe^dt:." ^''^^ '''''-' '^ '^ ^" ^^ -'^^ - -"- ^
, Besides this, Doukhova asked him to try and get permis-
sion for another friend of hers, Gourkevitch (who was X
pTmnndTon' Petropavlovsky fortressr^o ^e ts
parents and to procure some scientific books which he re-
cZflu ^\' ''"^'^'- ^^-^'hludofT promised to do that he
could when he went to Petersburg
As to her own story, this is what she said: Havine- fin-
ished a course of midwifery, she became connected with a
group of adherents to the Nardovolstvo, and made im he?
m.nd to agitate in the revolutionary movement A? fir^st all
JTil?" T""'^'^^'- ^^ ^^°*^ proclamations and occupie
herself with propaganda work in the factories • then an im
seTzeTanTTll" ^^^•"^, '^-^ -^^ed, thet' papers were
seized and all concerned were arrested " I was pkn r,r
Teff: tir,iif ^^r'^- ?? r'r '^^^ ^'^^^ ^'d
smile ^^^' «-^oncluded her story with a piteous
Nekhludoff made some inquiries concerning the drl with
he prominent eyes. Vera Doukhova told hinf tKhis drl
o the 'rf ?^''' °^ " ^^"^^^'' ^"^ J^^d been long attlch^d
hJrS TS'"*'^"^'>^ ^^'^y' ^"d w^s arrested because she
had pleaded guilty to having shot a gendarme. She ived in
a house with some conspirators, where they had a leered
printing press. One night, when the police came to search
this house, the occupiers resolved to defend themselves out
put the light and began destroying the things that mi&^
mcnminate them. The police forced thei way in anrote
SLl' Z^'P^'^'^'P fi^<^d' and mortally wounded a gen!
darme When an inquiry was instituted/this ^irl said thft if
was she who had fired, although she had never ^d a re
volver in her hands, and would not have hurll flv And
fn SiSa!' ''' ^"' "^^ "°" ^^"^^--^ to'"p?n:i s^^vi^ude
provtngly.''"'''^'' ^"' ^'^^^^^ter," said Vera Doukhova, ap-
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The third business that Vera Doiikhova wanted to talk
about concerned Maslova. She knew, as everybody does
know in prison, the storyof Maslova's life and his connection
with her, and advised him to take steps to get her removed
into the political prisoner's ward, or into the hospital to
help to nurse the sick, of which there were very many at
that time, so that extra nurses were needed.
NekhludoflF thanked her for the advice, and said he would
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NEKHLUDOFF AND THE PRISONERS.
Their conversation was interrupted by the inspector, who
said that the time was up, and the prisoners and their friends
must part Nekhludoflf took leave of Vera Doukhova and
went to the door, where he stopped to watch what was
going on.
The inspector's order called forth only heightened anima-
tion among the prisoners in the room, but no one seemed
to think of going. Some rose and continued to talk stand-
mg, some went on talking without rising. A few began
crying and taking leave of each other. The mother and her
consumptive son seemed especially pathetic. The youne
fellow kept twisting his bit of paper and his face seemed
angry, so great were his efforts not to be infected by his
mothers emotion. The mother, hearing that it was time
to part, put her head on his shoulder and sobbed and sniffed
aloud.
The girl with the prominent eyes— NekhludofT could not
help watching her— was standing opposite the sobbing
mother and was saying something to her in a soothing
tone The o d man with the blue spectacles stood holdini
his daughters hand and nodding in answer to what she
said The young lovers rose, and, holding each other's
hands, looked silently into one another's eyes.
"These are the only two who are merry," "said a youne
man with a short coat who stood bv Nekhludofif's side also
looking at those who were about to part, and pointed to
the lovers Feeling Nekhludofif's and the young man's ryes
hxed on them, the lovers— the young man with the rubber
coat and the pretty girl— stretched out their arms, and with
their hands clasped in each other's, danced round and round
again. To-night they are going to be married here in
prison, and she will follow him to Siberia," said the younp-
man. •' ^
"What is he?"
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A convict, condemned to penal servitude. Let those two
at least have a httle joy, or else it is too painful," the younij
man add d, listening to the sobs of the consumptive lad's
mother. '
''Now, my good people! Please, please do not oblige me
to have r ourse to severe measures," the inspector said, re-
peatnig the same words several times over. " Do please "
he went on in a weak, hesitating manner. " It is high time.
V\hat do you mean by it? This sort of thing is quite impos-
sible. I am now asking you for the last time," he repeated
Tnothe^r' "°^^ P""'"?^ o"t his cigarette and then lighting
It was evident that, artful, old, and common as were the
devices enahhng men to do evil to others without feeline
responsible for it, the inspector could not but feel conscious
that he was one of those who were guilty of causing the
sorrow which manifested itself in this room. And it was
apparent that this troubled him sorely. At length the prison-
ers and their visitors began to go— the first out of the inner,
the latter out of the outer door. The man with the rubber
jacket passed out among them, and the consumptive vouth
and the dishevelled man. Mary Pavlovna went out with the
boy born in prison.
The visitors went out too. The old man with the blue
spectacles, stepping heavily, went out, followed by Nekhlu-
doii. "^
" Yes, a strange state of things this," said the talkative
young man, as if continuing an interrupted conversation
as he descended the stairs side by side with Nekhludoff'
Yet we have reason to be grateful to the inspector who
does not keep strictly to the rules, kind-hearted fellow If
they can get a talk it does relieve their hearts a bit, after
While talking to the young man, who introduced him-
self as Medinzeff, Nekhludofif reached the hall. There the
mspector came up to them with weary step
, " If you wish to see Maslova," he said, apparently desir-
ing to be polite to Nekhludofif. " please come to-morrow "
Very well," answered Nekhludofif, and hurried away
experiencing more than ever that sensation of moral nausea
which he always felt on entering the prison.
The stififerings of the evidently innocent Mensii6flf seemed
terrible, and not so much his physical sulTering as the per-
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^et those two
I," the younp;
inipiive lad's
lot ohlige me
ctor said, re-
Do, please,"
is high time,
quite impos-
' he repeated
lien lighting
as were the
hout feeling
:el conscious
causing the
And it was
1 the prison-
jf the inner,
I the rubber
iptive youth
)ut with the
th the blue
by Nekhlu-
le talkative
)nversation,
^ekhludoff.
pector who
fellow. If
a bit, after
luced him-
There the
mtly desir-
morrow."
ried away,
)ral nausea
off seemed
is the per-
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plexity, the distrust in the good and in God which he must
LftL'?'"^ ^^^ "'""''^y °^ '^^ P^°P>^ ^'^o tormented him
without any reason.
Terrible were the disgrace and sufferings cast on these
hundreds of guiltless people simply becaus! something waS
not written on paper as it should have been. Terrible were
the brutahsed jailers, whose occupation is to torment their
brothers, and who were certain that they were fulHlling an
important and useful duty ; but most terrible of all eemed
tS'oaJt rl'o.h^''"^^A'^'"^-?T^^ ^"^P^^*^'-' ^ho was obliged
to part mother and son, father and daughte-. -ho were fust
the same sort of people as he and his ow i child vn ^
cauMnnl It \^ ^" ^°'- " Nekhludoflf .sked hi. -self, and
could not find an answer.
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CHAPTER LVII.
THE vice-governor's " AT-HOME."
The next day Nekhludoff went to see the advocate, and
spoke to him about the Menshoffs' case, begging him to
undertake their defence. The advocate promised to look
mto the case, and if it turned out to be as Nekhludoff said
he would in all probability undertake the defence free of
charge. Then Nekhludoff told him of the 130 men who
were kept in prison owing to a mistake. " On whom did it
depend ? Whose fault was it ? "
The advocate was silent for a moment, evidently anxious
to give a correct reply.
" Whose fault is it ? No one's," he said, decidedly. " Ask
the Procureur, he'll say it is the Governor's ; ask the Gov-
ernor, he'll say it is the Procureur's fault. No one is in
fault."
" I am just going to see the Vice-Governor. I shall tell
him."
"Oh, that's quite useless," said the advocate, with a
smile. "He is such a— he is not a relation or friend of
yours ?— such a blockhead, if I may say so, and yet a crafty
animal at the same time."
Nekhludoff remembered what Maslennikoff had said
about the advocate, and did not answer, but took leave and
went on to Maslennikoflf's. He had to ask Mas-
lennikoff two things: about Maslova's removal to
the prison hospital, and about the 13c passportless
men innocently imprisoned. Though it was very hard
to petition a man whom he did not respect, and by whose
orders men were flogged, yet it was the only means of gain-
ing his end, and he had to go through with it.
As he drove up to Maslennikoff's house Nekhludoff saw
a number of different carriages by the front door, and re-
membered that it was Maslennikoff's wife's " at-home " day,
to which he had been invited. At the moment Nekhludoff
drove up there was a c.-rriage in front of the door, and a
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ocate, and
ig him to
d to look
udoflf said
ce free of
men who
lom did it
y anxious
ly. "Ask
the Gov-
one is in
shall tell
;, with a
friend of
t a crafty
had said
leave and
sk Mas-
loval to
ssportless
ery hard
t)y whose
3 of gain-
idoff saw
, and re-
ne " day,
;khIudofr
)r, and a
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(ootraan in livery, with a cockade in his hat, was heloinc- a
lady down the doorstep. She was holding up her train and
A^"""«.^' """■ ='"''''=• ^^'^^ stockings.^and shppeTed feet
to be"^ie' K^T'' "?^ =" '^°'"^ '^"dau, whSf he knew
oara^„%o?kli?i;rhat 1^1 ^::^tfr:^:!i^^
lenmkofiF, when the latter appeared on the cZeted sfafrs"
gTEtStirSlr? Th'is-^^^^^
Ki^rp-erof^hiidrx^^^^^^
Sa"ry o^erTca ° « T ™J"^ ^"""^ =^™"' '° ''"^ "i^
pressed Mlslenn'k'off's iiand ' '"'""■ """' ""''■" ^-d he
gras^r'Si^JPiJi''",^'' g'^id,:' said Maslennikoff,
ffasfel^oSed u^' up ^he^Ps'tlirf Jjl "^P"'™^^
S'^ /Tha^t''"^ f "°' •' '*- " Bu'sinesT^rr:
as"he^riw'^?}ikt,rd'inr;rgrri;nirh^,'r".:r'
nonnce Prince Nekhludofl." hf saiS t" a foofman v-l^, ;
tSfCV:'' ™^- T'^^ '—" star.:d"S™t'"a C'Td'
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" Vous n'avez qu' a ordonner. But you must see my wife.
As it is, I got it for letting you go without seeing her last
time."
By the time they reached the drawing-room the footman
had already announced Nekhludoff, and from between the
bonnets and heads that surrounded it the smiling face of
Anna Ignatievna, the Vice-Governor's wife, beamed on
Nekhludoflf. At the other end of the drawing-room several
ladies were seated round the tea-table, and some military
men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of
male and female voices went on unceasingly.
" Eniin ! you seem to have quite forgotten us. How have
we offended ? "
With these words, intended to convey an idea of intimacy
which had never existed between herself and Nekhludoff,
Anna Ignatievna greeted the newcomer.
"You are acquainted? — Madam Tilyaevsky, M. Chern-
ofT. Sit down a bit nearer. Missy venes done d notre table
onyous apporteravotre thb . . . And you," she said, having
evidently forgotten his name, to an officer who was talking
to Missy, " do come here. A cup of tea, Prince ? "
"I shall never, never agree with you. It's quite simple;
she did not love," a woman's voice was heard saying.
" But she loved tarts."
" Oh, your eternal silly jokes ! " put in, laughingly, an-
other lady resplendent in silks, gold, and jewels.
" Cest exeellent these little biscuits, and so light. I think
I'll take another."
" Well, are you moving soon ? "
"Yes, this is our last day. That's why we have come.
Yes, it must be lovely in the country ; we are having a de-
lightful spring."
Missy, with her hat on, in a dark-striped dress of some
kind that fitted her like a skin, was looking very handsome.
She blushed when she saw Nekhludofif.
" And I thought you h ! left," she said to him.
" I am on the point of leaving. Business is keeping me
in town, and it is on business I have come here."
" Won't you come to see mamma? She would like to see
you," she said, and knowing that she was saying what was
not true, and that he knew it also, she blushed still more.
" I fear I shall scarcely have time," Nekhludoff said
gloomily, trying to appear as if he had not noticed her blush.
see my wife,
eing her last
the footman
between the
iling face of
beamed on
•oom several
)me military
be clatter of
How have
L of intimacy
Nekhludoff,
, M. Chern-
d notre table
said, having-
was talking
;?"
[uite simple;
aying.
ghingly, an-
s.
rht. I think
have come,
laving a de-
■ess of some
y handsome.
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tu^lTJ'''T^^ ^r^"'>^' shrugged her shoulders, and
turned towards an elegant officer, who grasped the mptv
chTirs mlnfmi^^^'"^-' Ti ^""^^^"^ ^^^'^°^d agains^ffi
" Y^^n^ff ^ 'f """^ ^^' '^"P ^'^°^^ to another table.
^ You must contriDute towards the Home fund "
1 am not refusing, but only wish to keep mv bountv
fresh ^for the lottery. There I Jhall let it app'ea'In aH it^
"Well, look out for yourself," said a voice followed hv
an evidently feigned laugh. loiiowea hy
Anna Ignatievna was in raptures; her "at-home" had
turned out a brilliant success."^ " Micky tells me you are
busying yourself with prison work. I can undmta^nd you
so well," she said to Nekhludoff. " Micky (she meant her
fat husband Maslennikoff) may have other deTec^s but
you know how kind-hearted he is. All these miserable
StTeHiLht"//" '.^jl'"". ^^ ^°^^ "°^ regard them n'a^;
other light. // est d'une bonte " ^nd she stoooed find
jng no words to do justice to this bonte of his aSd q^icklv"
turned to a shrivelled old woman with bows olHac ^ribbon
all over, who came in just then.
Having said as much as was absolutely necessarv and
with as httle meaning as conventionality required, N^ekhld^
doff rose and went up to Maslennikoff. " Can yoi g-ive me
a few minutes' hearing, please? " ^ ^
]' Oh, yes. Well, what is it ? "
Let us come in here."
byftfwTn'dow.' ™'" -^^P^""' -"ing-room. and sa, down
m.
keeping me
d like to see
ig what was
till more.
Iiludoff said
;d her blush.
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CHAPTER LVIII.
THE VICE-GOVERNOR SUSPICIOUS.
"Well? Je suis a vous. Will you smoke? But wait
a bit ; we must be careful and not make a mess here," said
Maslennikoff, and brought an ashpan. " Well ? "
" There are two matters I wish to ask you about."
' Dear me ! "
An expression of gloom and dejection came over Maslen-
nikoflf's countenance, and every trace of the excitement, like
that of the dog's whom its master has scratched behind the
ears, vanished completely. The sound of voices reached
them from the drawing-room. A woman's voice was heard,
saying, " Jamais je ne croirais," and a man's voice from the
other side relating something in which the names of la Com-
tesse Voronzoff and Victor Apraksine kept recurring. A
hum of voices, mixed with laughter, came from another
side. Maslennikoff tried to listen to what was going on in
the drawing-room and to what Nekhludoff was saying at
the same time.
" I am again come about that same woman," said Nekhlu-
doff.
" Oh, yes ; I know. The one innocently condemned."
" I would like to ask that she should be appointed to serve
in the prison hospital. I have been told that this could be
arranged."
Maslennikoff compressed his lips and meditated. " That
will be scarcely possible," he said. " However, I shall see
what can be done, and shall wire you an answer to-morrow."
" I have been told that there were many sick, and help
was needed."
" All right, all right. I shall let you know in any case."
" Please do," said Nekhludoff.
The sound of a general and even a natural laugh cane
from the drawing-room.
" That's all that Victor. He is wonderfully sharp when
he is in the right vein," said Maslennikoff.
' But wait
here," said
? "
it."
ver Maslen-
tement, like
behind the
:es reached
was heard,
ce from the
of la Com-
:urring. A
Dm another
^o'mg on in
s saying at
lid Nekhlu-
mned."
ted to serve
is could be
ed. "That
I shall see
o-morrow."
c, and help
ny case."
augh cai le
iharp when
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- il I^! "^""^ *^'"§^ ^ '^^"ted to tell you," said NekhlnrloiT
And he related the circumstances of the cast
^ Whatpnsonerdidyougotosee?" ' '
have prh?s"care''?„;' SpV"/"^' ""'"^'^ ■■""°«"t. I
overdue.? And . . ." ^ oecauj their passports are
ruptS'lLrilv ^'7^"''" b»«'"e«S'" Maslennikoff inter-
a pJomprfn'd'just form'of"S,^"it"%r'l! '' '' ^°" -"
^^ Oh, yes I can. I shall see about it at once "
she was saying, fron, the drawing-room '"'"*'"™' '» «hat
bo much the better. I shall takp it r,1cn » ^ »
prev^t: mfn LrTa^Vslr.Snl-'aCr&eT '°
No, no; not on anv accnnnt » ti^^ «»vvciy irom ner.
^"\;r;:;:ir'^r«^'^"^^ ".e door
■nor",! n?°-i„.„i""^'°''' «hat some men had re-
g,Xt;L!p-u;i^hn,entrt,™prSS ^Se^d^ Is this
Maslennikoff blushed
. :o°^e' rj^iS- ?r ^re f- wS ;:^;tir-rS
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I
f.
Come, come ; Anna i^ calling us," he said, catching Nekhlu-
doff by the arm, and again becoming as excited as after the
attention paid him by the important person, only now hi;;
excitement was not joyful, but anxious.
Nekhludoff pulled his ami away, and without taking; leave
of any one and without saying a word, he passed tiirough
the drawing-room with a dejected look, went down into the
hall, past the footman, who sprang towards hjm, and cut
at the street door.
What is the matter with him "^ What have you done to
him ? " asked Anna of her husband.
" This i$ d la Frangaisc," remarked some one.
"A la Fraugaise, indeed — it is a la Zonloii."
"Oh, but lie's a'way.s been like that."
Some one rose, soi.t on- came it;, and the clatter went on
its course. The company ;.s<vl this episode with Nekhludoff
as a convenient topic c/ conversation for the rest of ihe
'* at-home."
On the day following his visit to Maslennikoff, Nekhlu-
doff received a letter from him, written in a fine, firm han<l
on thick, glazed paper, with a coat-of-arms, and sealed witl^
sealing-wax. Maslennikoff said that he had written to the
doctor concerning Maslova's removal to the hospital, and
lioped NekhliidotT's wish would receive attention. The
leUer was signed, " Your affectionate elder comrade," and
the signature ended with a large, firm, and artistic flourish.
" Foo' ! " Nekhludoff could not refrain from saying, espe-
cially because in the word " comrade " he felt Maslennikoff's
condescension towards him, i.e., while Maslennikoff was
fining this position, morally most dirty and shameful, he
st:Il thought himself a very important man, and wished, if
not exactly to flatter Nekhludoff, at least to show that he
was not too proud to call him comrade.
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ng Nekhlu-
as after the
ily now hii;
taking; leave
?ed tl; rough
wn int. ? the
m, and out
you done to
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ter went on
Nekhltidoff
rest of the
•ff, Nekhui-
, firm han<l,
sealed witi)
itten to the
3spital, and
ition. The
irade," and
tic flourish,
lying, espe-
slennikoff's
inikoflf was
lameful, he
wished, if
ow that he
CHAPTER LIX.
NEKHLUDOFF'S THIRD INTERVIEW WITH MASLOVA IN PRISON.
m^.'^Lf^ -^^ "''''* Widespread superstitions is that every
nan has Ins own special, definite qualities; that a man is
io" Re that""^e'^Z''' ^"^T^' ^thetic, etc! M^n a
k^nd than cruel nf.-'' '^^ °^^ "^^" ^^^^ ^^ '« ^ore often
Th^n lr.J!u 1-' ^^u"^*" ^'^^ ^'^an stupid, oftener energetic
than apathetic or the reverse; but it would be false to sav
"^'" ■V'"' ''"'' '" '=d'. ='"1 alike™ allTbu eve yriveH
wJrHe'tZxteSrefa^^^^
.mer«e„ with Katusha, vanished compttel and after the
.o?h"e prlsX'se^hl? "^" '° ^-■^'■■■"'ff. he again wen.
adJo'St'eT^r njTMnMUXf ^nVfn't^h'- °"'^ "°? '" '^^
=d\itlr^S,i^^ri£"~^^^^^
An order for "T^ii-pr "^i--!*; 1- • , -
« -«o..u Vi.- t-f^-^ier ^.aatiuii naa apparent v been senf ac
a result of his conversation with Maslennikoff ' ^'
^ou may see her," the inspector said; "but please re-
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member what I said as regards money. And as to her re-
moval to the hospital, that his excellency wrote to me about
It can be done ; the doctor would agree. Only she herself does
not wish It. She says, ' Much need have I to carry out the
slops for the scurvy beggars.' You don't know what these
people are, Prince," he added.
Nekhludoflf did not reply, but asked to have the interview
The inspector called a jailer, whom Nekhludoff followed
into the women's visiting-room, where there was no one but
Maslova waiting. She came from behind the grating, quiet
and timid, close up to him, and said, without looking at him •
' Forgive me, Dmitri Ivanovitch, I spoke hastily the dav
before yesterday,"
"^ It is not for me to forgive you," Nekhludoflf began.
But all the same, you must leave me," she interrupted,
u" V"t t , , ^^"!^^y squinting eyes with which she looked at
him NekhludoflF read the former strained, angry expression.
Why should I leave vou ?" ° ^ r
" So.^'
"But why so?"
She again looked up, as it seemed to him, with the same
angry look.
*; Well, then, thus it is," she said. " You must leave me
It IS true what I am saying. I cannot. You just give it up
altogether. Her lips trembled and she was silent for a
moment. " It is true. I'd rather hang myself."
Nekhludoflf felt that in this refusal there was hatred and
unforgiving resentment, but there was also something be-
sides something good. This confirmation of the refusal in
cold blood at once quenched all the doubts in Nekhludoflf 's
bosom, and brought back the serious, triumphant emotion
he had felt in relation to Katusha.
"Katusha, what I have said I will again repeat" he
uttered very seriously. " I ask you to marry me. If you do
not wish it, and for as long as you do not wish it, I shall onlv
contmue to follow you, and shall go where vou are taken " '
That is your business. I shall not sav anything more "
she answered, and her lips began to tremble again.
He, too, was silent, feeling unable to speak.
" I shall now go to the country, and then to Petersburg "
he said, when he was quieter again. " I shall do my utmost
to get your— our case, I mean, reconsidered, and by the heb
ot Cjrod the sentence may be revoked."
to her re-
I me about,
lerself does
•ry out the
what these
interview.
F followed
no one but
ting, quiet
ng at him :
ly the day
egan.
iterrupted,
: looked at
;xpression.
I the same
leave me.
give it up
lent for a
latred and
ithing be-
refusal in
khliidoff's
t emotion
;peat," he
If you do
shall onlv
taken." '
ig more,"
:ersburg,"
ay utmost
y the help
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\f 1"^"^ iu-^ '^ not revoked, never mind. I have deserved it
i fficult^ ;\ffo; h °*^^ -^^5'" ^^^ -id, and he saw how
" wr^u u ^^^i" ""vvn ner rears.
Think so " ^^ ^''^ innocent, isn't it? "
hide her emotion.
;' Yes, I think so."
"Such a splendid old woman," she said.
1 here was another pause.
lol^^"'.?.""^ ^'.^° *^^ hospital?" she suddenly said and
^o a"! fshln n'ofd ^^P^-"^-? ^yes. " If yriik'e'i will
XT UM ' 1 i r°*. ^''}''^ ^"y spirits, either."
"Yes^ les shl^t'"^ T ^'\-%'''' ^hey were smiling,
thought^ After allhif/^ ^ "^fT""'. ^^'"^'" Nekhludoff
he hfd never hp?nL' '^"" ^T^^l' ^" "°^ ^^'^ something
invincib"e expenenced-the certainty that love i!
When Maslova returned to her noisome cell after this in
r'r,'/K V^^'^.^^ ^'' ^'^^J^ ^"d sat down n her paie on
the shelf bedstead with her hands folded on her lap ^ In th2
wi^hTr babV Merh"r'^'^ "°T"' ^^^ '''^ —
wiin ner Daby, Menshoffs old mother, and the watrhmpn'c
wife The deacon's daughter had the dav befo e been de
clared mentally diseased andremovedto thehosS The res
wa LCVcdlT^' T^'J"^ ^^°*h^^- The oldvvoman
Children wereVn thi 'a '^^^"^ T"' ^"^ ^^^ watchman's
wiin ner baby m her arms, and the watchman's wife with
SLtva "?We„*r '^"'■«i"Sr'"> deft finger", cl^'urS
raasiova. Well, have you had a chat ? " thev asked Mn «
dZsVeirz it^fl'if "^"^'^^O' ^"'"^"^ ^" '' ^'^ -•''<^-"
wife*''''The*chifrthi°'.'""'"'"8^- " ^^'<' *' watchman's
Fh K-=„-,;v^% It '";Ss "Ot to go down into the dumps
tag h^f fifgtrs. ''°"'' "" ' """ ^"^ "« ""' quickly 3:
Maslova did not answer
imir'^womT ""'Th ""7.,?" S°"' '° "^^'''" ^^'^ 'he Vlad-
= =• pJt^ltt ^^rhe^n^Ztht'!-^^ "- «'- ">
th. r/J^'h^^' ^^"^d °"t the watchmln's wife, " where's
the little imp gone to ? wnere s
Siie took a knitting needlj .aick it through both the hall
and the stocking, and went out into the corrfdor.
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At this moment the sound of women's voices was heard
from the corridor, and the - .niafcs "f he cell entered, with
their prison shoes, but no «,tockin- . .a their feet. Each was
carrying a roll, some ev( n two. Theodosia came at once up
to Maslova.
"What's the matter; is anything wrong?" Theodosia
f.^i^?^' looking lovingly at Maslova with her clear, blue eves.
This is for our tea," and she put the rolls ^^ - ■' if. '
"Why, surely he has not changed hi;; .uwia about marry-
mg?" asked Korableva.
"No, he has not, but I don't wish to," said Maslova. " and
so I told him."
!'. ^ore fool y m! " muttered Korableva in her deep tones.
If one s not to live together, what's the use of marrv-
mg? said Theodosia.
" There's >our husband— he's going with you," said the
watchman s wife.
" WeU, of course, we're married," said Theodosia. " But
why should he go through the ceremonv if he is not to live
with her?
" Why indeed ! Don't be a fool ! You know if he mar-
ries her she'll roll in wealth." said Korableva.
"He says, ' Wherever they take you, I'll follow,'" said
Maslova. If he does, it's well ; if he does not, well also.
1 am not going to ask him to. Now he is going to try and
arrange the matter in Petersburg. He is related to all the
Ministers there. But, all the same, I have no need of him "
she continued. '
"Of course not," suddenly agreed Kora leva, evidently
thinking about something e" - as shr sat ex nining her bag.
Well, shall we have a droj, . " ^
" You have some," replied Maslova. " I won't."
ENiJ OF BOOK I.
was heard
ercd, with
Each was
It once up
Thcodosia
blue eves.
ut mai ry-
Dva, " and
eep tones.
oi marry-
' said the
la. "But
lot to live
f he mar-
w; " said
well also,
o try and
to all the
of him,"
evidently
her bag.
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I I
CHAPTER I.
PROPERTY IN LAND.
It was possible for Maslova's case to come before th^
^oTo P^er.h''*"'^'^' ?; "^^^^ ^'"^^ NekhZoVmeant to
haui f„ r"l/°,"'' "f ^^^'> '<°«sn.inski, a large estate
uttr H.nl!,/ ''''"''"'", •" "'' ''dn'inistration were those of
an ,hitXrf"stiir» "''•' '"^P'^Semem. Nekhludoffk^ew
and preached' He^rJ r"'?''':*^ ""''f"'' ^' had confessed
teach1nrh:d 5^ t^lTafJTnheTi edTr^HT htl^^f-
e'loTTnto th'e' JUit" of" -"^^ ^'--^Se'a^f^^he'^
.hosf Lr"f t^^^pt'Ll cS-tl Sr^arS'STs ^ ^
even avoided thinking-abom t"Sk'^ mX rdea'th'
th« connng ,„to the property, and the necessHy of manag
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ing It, again raised the question as to what his position in
vlfhTf S P"^f ,^ f'^'^^'^y ^" ^^"^^ '^^'- A month before
Tsekhludoff would h.ve answered that he had not ?he
strength to alter the existing order of things ; that it was no?
he who vvas adniinistering the estate ; and would one way or
another have eased his conscience, continuing to live far
from his estates, and having the money sent him. But now
he decided that he could not leave things to go on as thev
were, but would have to alter them in a way unprofitable to
himself, even though he had all these complicated and dif°
ficult relations with the prison world which made money
necessary, as well as a probable journey to Siberia before
him. Therefore he decided not to farm the land, but to let
t to the peasants at a low rent, to enable them to cultivate
It without depending on a landlord. More than once, when
comparing the position of a landowner with that of an
kn^' t ° L'''^'' ^ -^'^^^'H^off h^d compared the renting o"
and to the peasants instead of cultivating it with hired
labour, to the old system by which serf proprietors used to
exact a money payment from their serfs in place of labour
.llY?j." ,\'°^"*'°" °^ ^^^ problem, and yet a step tow-
ards the solution; It was a movement towards a less rude
ZuvT^^- "^"^^ 'l"^^' ^" ^^'' ^^y he meant to act.
Nekhludoff reached Kousminski about noon. Trying to
simplify his hfe in every way, he did not telegraph, but hired
a cart and pair at the station. The driver was a young
tellow m a nankeen coat, with a belt below his long waist
He was glad to talk to the gentleman, especiallv because
Ji; en^^^ rr '"^^^"f ^'^ broken-winded white hb?se and
ttVaraV?Hk:^dr^ °"^ ^^-^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^-^-p-^^ -^-h
The driver spoke about the steward at Kousminski with-
out knowing that he was driving "the master." Nekhlu-
doff had purposely not told him who he was.
1 hat ostentatious German," said the driver (who had
been to town and read novels) as he sat sideways on the
box, passing his hand from the top to the bottom of his
long whip, and trying to show oflf his accomplishments-
^n . ^^ ^^^^V*^"' ^^'"^^" '^^^ procured three light bays
..nd vnen he drives out with his lady-oh, mv' At Christ
mas he had a Christmas-tree in the big hous^ dfove some
of the visitors there Tf Uod 'Uctnr V~h- m .
xi,„ ,-i c -^ • ',' " 7 ''-^'^ric ii^nia , yuu could not see
the like of It in the whole of the government. What's it ?o
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position in
mth before
not the
it was not
>ne way or
to live far
But now
)n as they
ofitable to
d and dif-
de money
ria before
but to let
) cultivate
nee, when
at of an
enting of
'ith hired
■s used to
oi labour,
step tow-
less rude
to act.
Frying to
but hired
a young
ng waist.
because
ibrse and
:e, which
ski with-
Nekhlu-
who had
s on the
11 of his
ments —
ht bays,
t Christ-
ve some
i not see
It's it to
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b' ught%'„"esri'e''' ' '^^P °^ "^°"^^- ' ^-^^ -3- '- 1--
Nekhludofif had imagined th?t he was quite indifferent
to the way the steward managed his estate, and vvhat ad
vantages the steward derived from it. Th^ words o ?he
A 'dTrf 1'7"' '°^?T' ^^"-^ "°^ Pleasamto hear.''"
w.r ^^^'^.<^'o"d now and then covered the sun; the larks
were soaring above the fields of winter corn ; he forests
S ^wth'^'"'^ ^'^'^ 'r'' ^'^""^ ^^^^" ■' the meadow
speckled with gra.zmg cattle and horses. The fields wer^^
being ploughed, and Nekhltidoff enjoyed the lovely da v
But every now and then he had an unpleasant feeHng and
when he asked himself what it was caused by he rf mem
bered what the driver had told him aboutihe way the Gerl
man was managing Kousminski. When he got to his estate
• and set to work this unpleasant feeling vanifhed
Looking over the books in the office, and a talk with the
foreman, who naively pointed out the advantages to be de
nved from the facts that the peasants had vefy 1 ttle land'
of their own and that it lay in the midst of the landlord's
fields, made Nekhludoff more than ever determS to
From r"^"pl "\^ *^ ^'' ^'' ^^"^1 *° the peasantT ^
M Vl^^^^^^^"^^ '^^^^s ^"d his talk with the foreman
Nekhludoff found that two-thirds of the best of the c^hi '
vated land was still being tilled with improved machfnev
wL dSTv'f^r"'"^ ^"'^ ^t^^^' ^'"'^ the other th ra
Sa * So th.. S'"'""'' ^^ '^/^te of five roubles per
fhrTe times harSw ft "^f^^T '^'^ '^ P'^"^^ '^'^' desiatut
mree times, hanow it three times, sow and mow the corn
make ,t into sheaves, and deliver it on the thrXng ™nd
for five roubles, while the same amount of wc^^rk^d?ne Ev
wage labour came to at least 10 roubles. E^efythine the
peasants got from the office they paid for in Tabo ^r at '
Zl^^^^r^"^- V'^y P^^^ i" labour for he use of the
meadows, for wood, for potato-stalks, and were nearlv in
of them in debt to the office. Thus, for thriandthat^t
beyond the cultivated fields, which the peasants Wrelfou^
times the price that its value would bring in f ive ted at
five per cent^ was taken from the peasants. ^'
Nekhludoff had known all this before, but he now saw
It in a new light, and wonderprl ho"^ he\n 4v t^
position could help seeing how abn^rm^l^fucWondSon:
* About two and three-quarter acres.
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are. The stevyard s arguments that if the land were let to
the peasants the agricultural implements would fetch next
to nothmg as it would be impossible to get even a quarter
of their value for them, and that the peasants would spoil
the land, and how great a loser Nekhludofif would be, only
strengthened Nekhludoff in the opinion that he was doing
a good action m letting the land to the peasants and thus
depnymg himself of a large part of his income. He decided
to settle this business now, at once, while he was there The
reaping and selling of the corn he left for the steward to
manage in due season, and also the selling of the agricultural
implements and useless buildings. But he asked his steward
to call the peasants of the three neighbouring villages that
lay in the midst of his estate (Kousminski) to a meeting at
which he would tell them of his intentions and arrange about
the price at which they were to rent the land. *
With the pleasant sense of the firmness he had shown in
the face of the steward;s arguments, and his readiness to
make a sacrifice Nekhludofif left the office, thinking over
the business before him, and strolled round the house
through the neglected flower-garden-this year the flowers
were planted in front of the steward's house— over the tennis
ground, now overgrown with dandelions, and along the
lime-tree walk, where he used to smoke his cigar, and where
he had flirted with the pretty Kirimova, his mother's visitor.
Having briefly prepared in his mind the speech he was eoinff
to make to the peasants, he again went in to the steward,
and, atter tea, having once more arranged his thoughts,
he went into the room prepared for him in the big house
which used to be a spare bedroom.
In this clean little room, with pictures of Venice on the
walls, and a mirror between the two windows, there stood
a clean bed with a spring mattress, and by the side of it
a small table with a decanter of water, matches, and an ex-
tinguisher. On a table by the looking-glass lay his open
portmanteau, with his dressing-case and some books in if
a Russian book. The Investigation of the Laws of Crimi-
nality and a German and an English book on the same
subject, which he meant to read while travelling in the
country. But it was too late to begin to-day, and he began
preparing to go to bed. ^ ^
An okl-fa.hioned inlaid mahogany arm-chair s^ood in the
corner of the room, and this chair, which NekhludolT re-
were let to
'. fetch next
n a quarter
would spoil
jld be, only
was doing
ts and thus
He decided
there. The
steward to
igricultural
lis steward
illages that
meeting, at
ange about
•
1 shown in
jadiness to
iking over
the house,
he flowers
the tennis
along the
and where
r's visitor,
was going
2 steward,
thoughts,
3ig house,
ice on the
lere stood
side of it
nd an ex-
his open
oks in it ;
of Crinii-
the same
ig in the
he began
lod in the
udoff re-
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membered standing in his mother's bedroom suddenlv
Tuddenlv^fil 'f '^-r^^P^^^^^ ^^"^^^'^" - '^- -"!• He wt
sudden y filled with regret at the thought of the house that
would tumble to ruin, and the garden Ihat would run wd
and the forest that would be cut down, and all these frrm
yards, stables, sheds, machines, horses, cows which he knew
and to'eep "Ittf °^^' ^1^°"^' "°^. ^° himsdflo acq" r^
:^cKf£^/;^r^nr^^eriertSS
jrr"?' rmlf;"o\^ho?f^"^ 1- property,^came totifsl'!
so, said another voice, " but you are not going to soend
nd'Zst hand Ihf^t 7"" "^^ r^'^' ^""^ " "- 'wlen
ana must hand the estate on to them in as crood a condi-
tion as you received it. There is a duty to^he laml to^
It'Jr^dZX 'Abo-' '^,r-^^^^'"^ '^ '^'y easyfto acquir"
hZ LT 71' ^^ove all, you must consider your future
dilnnf / '^* ^°" ^'" ^^° ^^'th yourself, and you nu'st
dispose of your property accordingly. And are vou reX
firm in your resolve.? And then, are you really IcthTal
cordmg to your conscience, or are you Ltin^in o?de,^^?o h^
admired of men ? " Nekhludoff asked himsdaH this and
had to acknowledge that he was influenced bv d e d ou^ht
of what people_ would say about him. And the mo?e it
unTS^Xseetd'-^^^ ^"-^^°- --' -^^^^^^^-e
would be fresh, he lay down on his clean bed But it was
long before he could sleep. Together with he fre h air
and the moonlight, the croaking^f the frogs entered the
room, minglmg with the trills of a couple of n'Stales
n the park and one close to the window in a bush of macs
K^lvT^ Listening to the nightingales and the Ws
m,t!^>^it ;- ;"5"-^i*tv"-^p"4 ,^-^htei!,':ndT;
an^howt'hpftSiSed L""'tilr<;?'tl!f^^
when she said, " You must Just l^ve i?' '^h^en^Ve'c/rml^
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steward began going down to the frogs, and had to be held
back, but he not only went down but turned into Maslova
who began reproaching Nekhludoflf, saying, "You are a
prince, and I am a convict." " No, I must not give in "
thought Nekhludoff, waking up, and again asking himself,
Is what I am domg right ? I do not know, and no matter
no matter, I must only fall asleep now." And he began
himself to descend where he had seen the inspector and
Maslova chmbmg down to, and there it all ended.
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to be held
3 Maslova,
Vou are a
t give in,"
ig himself,
no matter,
he began
sector and
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EFFORTS AT LAND RESTORATION.
The next day Nekhludoff awoke at nine o'clock. The
young office clerk who attended on " the master " brought
him his boots, shining as they had never shone before, and
some cold, beautifully clear spring water, and informed him
that the peasants were alreadv assembling. Nekhludoff
jumped out of bed, and collected his thoughts. Not a trace
of yesterday's regret at giving up and thus destroying his
property remained now. H: remembered this feeling of
regret with surprise ; he was now looking forward with jov
to the task before him, and could not help being proud of it
He could see from the window the old tennis ground, over-
grown with dandelions, on which the peasants were begin-
ning to assemble. The frogs had not croaked in vain the
night before ; the day was dull. There was no wind ; a soft
warm rain had begun falling in the morning, and hung in
drops on leaves, twigs, and grass. Besides the smell of the
fresh vegetation, the smell of damp earth, asking for more
rain, entered in at tne windovv. While dressing, Nekhludofif
several times looked out at the peasants gathered on the
tennis ground. One by one thev came, took off their hats
or caps to one another, and took their places in a circle
leaning on their sticks. The steward, a stout, muscular'
strong young man, dressed in a short pea-jacket with a
green stand-up collar, and enormous buttons, came to sav
M iVf' . had assembled, but that they might wait until
Nekhludoff had finished his breakfast— tea and coffee
whichever he pleased ; both were ready.
J\ !^°'/i^'"H J h^^ better go and see them at once," said
Nekhludoff, with an unexpected feeling of shvness and
shame at the thought of the a>iM/:rv,tion he was ^ointj to
have with the peasants. He as rrc^ng to fulfil a wish of
the peasants, the fulfilment of .vh-;.:li they did not even dare
to lione for— to let the land to ^V;al at a low price, i.e to
wu xT^M ^ ' i'T = ^"'^ ^^^ '^^ ^^'^ ashamed of something.
Wher, Nekhludoff came rp to the peasants, and the fair
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the curly, the bald the grey heads were bared before him
he felt so confused that he could say nothing. The rS
continued to come down in small drops, that remained on
the hair, the beards and the fluff of tlfe men's rough coa^^
The peasants looked at "the master," waiting fofhim to
speak, and he was so abashed that he could not%eak Th s
confused sdence was broken by the sedate, self-assured
Gennan steward, who considered himself a good udge of
well Tir.r'''"'' ""^ 7^^° ^P°^^ R"^«^^" rernarkab?y
well. This strong, over-fed man, and Nekhludoff himself
presented a striking contrast to the peasams, with their thin
S^otseToatT' ''' ''''''''' ''^''' P-^-^-^ b--"^'
the hnd" tV vniJ^'nn? ""^"''"^ '° ^° ^^^ ^ ^^''^'' ^"^ to let
" How are we not worthy of it, Vasili Karlovitch> Don't
we work for you ? We were well satisfied with he deceased
lady-God have mercy on her soul-and the young PHnce
w,ll not desert us now. Our thanks to him," said a Jed-
haired, talkative peasant. ^
" Yes, that's why I have called you together I shnnlH
like to let you have all the land, if you vvish it '' " ^
or^dM n^bellJv?;? "°*''"^' ^^ '' '""'^ ''' ^^ ""^^^^and
as^'edf m^%e^aged\n:r '" ^^"' " ^'^^ '^ '^^ ^^^ ' "
low re"?!?' '* *° ^°"' *^^* ^""^ ""'^^'^ ^^^^ the use of it, at a
" T^f ""^7 agreeable thing," said an old man.
^^ If only the pay is such as we can afford," said another
^^ I here s no reason why we should not rent the land "'
" Arf^^v ^^"."f °"?ed to "ve by tilling the ground." '
And It s quieter ,or you, too, that way. You'll have to
andTorrTnowM'""' ''1^ ""^- ^"'^ ^^'"'^ °^ ^" ^^e^ S
and worry now several voices were heard saying
The sin is all on your side," the German remkrked " If
"""Xr" ''?'^ y^"'' ^^J^' ^nd were orderly "
old man' ' 1^^'"'^^^ ^Vn^ '?"' °^ "^'" ^^^^ ^ sharp-nosed
Old man You say, Why do you let the horse get into
the corn ? just as if I let it in. Why, I was swin ^nV n!v
sc>the, or somethinir of Hi. Und the I-"-'--- ' ^ "^^ •'
day seemed as long as a year,^n:i^^c^Y^Sf^SV wh.;
1 before him,
?. The raih
remained on
rough coats,
r for him to
speak. This
self-assured
'od judge of
remarkably
loff himself,
;h their thin,
ling beneath
r, and to let
t," said the
tch? Don't
he deceased
»ung Prince
said a red-
. I should
understand
3U mean ? "
2 of it, at a
1 another.
le land."
und."
I'll have to
all the sin
ing.
rked. "If
larp-nosed
e get into
nging my
ly, till ili'f
eep while
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^^ And you should keep order "
., 5"'"'' ' '^" '['"• '° P"' «P a fence ? "
a„d yo1,^pu. me to feed ve?^T„^-'° "''' "?,' ''"'' '=■« ^"ar.
That was'^thee^d of that fence .'" ^"'°" ""■'' "°""'^-
the *eward " ^" '' ''^'"^- " ^'^"^ Nekhludoff, turning to
arope;Lare[ny^o?ras™^' ^°" ^-^ ''™' "' *"'<>
a.;e?er7ad';p -'i'-^s^^lt--^^^^^^ '''^ you who
I go?noSe"orif i ^''"■' ^°" ^'"='^'' ">■ J^"* fo-- me, and
seems" ^ "' ^° 6^°°'' »°'"S '° 'aw with the rich, it
" You should keep to the law "
thoi'°w"ho took'pt7?„1t ^^^„='PP"-"y going on without
?rre^";i^dS- SE^^^
ioTirra^hi The P^^^^
ing the ampttd7h'r.:r "o?1h'e°;^nt.'"'""°" °' --"^-
it, ai^thit;";i niu";^^ ;t'fflL°° r ^'^^ '° ^^^^
of it ? " -^ P^ " ^ '^^ y°" 'lave the whole
vJtM P'iT'"^^ '' y^"'"' •■ '* 's for you to fix the nrice "
Nekhludoff named fhp iiri",-« ti i • pnce.
Nethi -d^iffls-ugt^r'^; :o:f,;rrzT,s t--
ure, Dut no signs of pleasure were v[sibler ''^ ^
. * The greatest thief in the village.
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()ne hing only showed Nekhliidoff that his oflfer was a
prohtable one to the peasants. The question as to who
would rent the land, the whole commune or a special so-
ciety, was put, and a violent dispute arose among those
peasants vyho were in favour of excluding the weak and
those not likely to pay the rent regularly, and the peasants
\yho would have to be excluded on that score. At last
thanks to the steward, the amount and the terms of the
rent were fixed, and the peasants went down the hill towards
their villages, talking noisily, while Nekhludofif and the
steward went into the office to make up the agreement
Everything was settled in the way Nekhludofif wished and
expected it to be. The peasants had their land 30 per cent
cheaper than they could have got it anywhere in the district'
the revenue from the land was diminished by half, but was
more than suflficient for Nekhludofif, especially as there
would be money coming in for a forest he sold, as well as
lor the agricultural implements, which would be sold, too
Everything seemed excellently arranged, yet he felt
ashamed of something. He could see that the peasants,
though they spoke words of thanks, were not satisfied, and
had expected something greater. So it turned out that he
had deprived himself of a great deal, and yet not done what
the peasants had expected.
The next day the agreement was signed, and accom-
panied by severa old peasants, who had been chosen as
deputies, Nekhludofif went out, got into the steward's ele-
gant equipage (as the driver from the station had called it)
said good-bye to the peasants, who stood shaking their
heads in a dissatisfied and disappointed manner, and drove
off to the station. Nekhludofif was dissatisfied with himself
without knowing why, but all the time he felt sad and
ashamed of something.
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ffer was a
IS to who
special so-
ong those
weak and
2 peasants
At last,
ms of the
11 towards
and the
greement.
ished and
per cent.
le district,
', but was
as there
IS well as
sold, too.
: he felt
peasants,
sfied, and
:t that he
one what
1 accom-
hosen as
ird's de-
railed it),
ing their
nd drove
1 himself
sad and
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CHAPTER III.
OLD ASSOCIATIONS.
_ FR9M Kousminski Nekhludoff went to the estate he had
inherited from his aunts, the same where he first met Ka-
tusha He meant to arrange about the land there in the
way he had done in Kousminski. Besides this, he wished
to find out all he could about Katusha and her baby, and
when and how it had died. He got to Panovo early one
morning and the first thing that struck him when he drove
up was the look of decay and dilapidation that all the build-
ings bore, especially the house itself. The iron roofs, which
had once been painted green, looked red with rust, and a
few sheets of iron were bent back, probablv by a storm,
bome of the planks which covered the house from outside
were torn away in several places; these were easier to
get by breaking the rusty nails that held them. Both
porches, but especially the side porch he remembered so
well, were rotten and broken ; only the banister remained,
borne of the windows were boarded up, and the building
in which the foreman lived, the kitchen, the stables— all
were grey and decaying. Only the garden had not decayed,
but had grown, and was in full bloom ; from over the fence
the cherry, apple, and plum trees looked like white clouds
The hlac bushes that formed the hedge were in full bloom
as they had been when, 14 years ago, NekhludofT had
played gorclki with the 15-year-old Katusha. and had
fallen and got his hand stung by the nettles behind one of
those hlac bushes. The larch that his aunt Sophia had
planted near the house, which then was only a short stick
had grown into a tree, the trunk of which would have made
a beam, and its branches were covered with soft yellow
green needles as with down. The river, now within its
banks, rushed noisily over the mill dam. The meadow the
other side of the river was dotted over by the peasants'
mixed herds. The foreman, a student, who had left the
seminary without finishing the course, met Nekhludoff in
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the yard, with a smile on his face, and, still smiling, asked
him to come into the office, and, as if promising something
exceptionally good by this smile, he went behind a partition.
For a moment some whispering was heard behind the parti-
tion. The isvostchik who had driven NekhludofT from the
station, drove away after receivinj a tip. and all was silent.
Then a barefooted girl passed the window ; she had on an
embroidered peasant blouse, and long earrings in her ears;
then a man walked past, clattering with his nailed boots
on the trodden path.
Nekhludoff sat down by the little casement, and looked
out into the garden and listened. A soft, fresh spring breeze,
smelling of newly-dug earth, streamed in through the win-
dow, playing with the hair on his damp forehead and the
papers that lay on the window-sill, which was all cut about
with a knife.
" Tra-pa-trop, tra-pa-trop," comes a sound from the river,
as the women who were washing clothes there slapped them
in regular measure with their wooden bats, and the sound
spread over the glittering surface of the mill pond while the
rhythmical sound of the falling water came from the mill
and a frightened fly sudd-nly flew loudly buzzing past his
ear.
And all at once NekJiljuicfT remembered how, long ago,
when he was young end i-jnocent, he had heard the women's
wooden bats slapping tire wet clothes above the rhythmical
sound from the mill, and in the same way the spring breeze
had blown about the hair on his wet forehead and the papers
on the window-sill, which was all cut about with a knife, and
just in the same way a fly had buzzed loudly past his ear.
It was not exactly that he remembered himself as a lad of 18
but he seemed to feel himself the same as he was then, with
the same freshness and puritv, and full of the same grand
possibilities for the future, and at the same time, as it hap-
pens in a dream, he knew that all this could be no more and
he felt terribly sad.
" At what time would you like something to eat ? " asked
the foreman, with a smile.
" When you like ; I am not hungry. I shall go for a walk
through the village."
_ '' Would you not like to come into the house ? Everything
IS in order there. Have the goodness to look in. If the out-
side "
V
a
k
t£
Sl
SI
W
111
hi
th
be
sa
m<
th.
CO
ha
mg, asked
something
i partition.
I the parti-
f from the
was silent,
had on an
I her ears;
iled boots
nd looked
ng breeze,
1 the win-
d and the
cut about
the river,
pped them
the sound
while the
I the mill,
J past his
long ago,
: women's
hythmical
ng breeze
he papers
knife, and
!t his ear.
lad of i8,
hen, with
me grand
as it hap-
nore, and
? " asked
or a walk
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"Not now; later on. 'J dl me. please, have you sot a
woman here called Matrona Kharina ? ( This was Katusha's
aunt, the village nuMwifc.) ^ ^atusha s
" Oh yes; in the village she keeps a secret pot-house I
know she does, and I accuse her of it and scold her; but as to
takmg her up, jt would be a pity. An old woman, vou know
mile ?n ,f^"^^'^'"l^''-^"." said the foreman, continuing o
he master and partly because he was convinced that Nekh-
himsdf" """^ '" '^'''' "'""^'■^ J"^^ ^' ^^» a' 1^'
;; Where does she live ? I shall go across and see her
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meetmg of the peasants, and tell them that I wan? to speak to
f:ZfTtt ''"''" "•' N^^^'"^°ff' with the in?en^ron o?
coming to the same agreement with the peasants here as he
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CHAPTER IV.
THE PEASANTS LOT.
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When Nekhludoff came out of the gate he met the girl
with the long earrings on the well-trodden path that lay
across the pasture ground, overgrown with dock and plan-
tain leaves. She had a long, brightly-coloured apron on, and
was quickly swinging her left arm in front of herself as she
stepped briskly with her fat, bare feet. With her right arm
she was pressing a fowl to her stomach. The fowl, with red
comb shaking, seemed perfectly calm ; he only rolled up his
eyes and stretched out and drew in one black leg, clawing the
girl's apron. When the girl came nearer to " the master,"
she began moving more slowly, and her run changed into a
walk. When she came up to him she stopped, and, after a
backward jerk with her head, bowed to him ; and only when
he had passed did she recommence to run homeward with
the cock. As he went down towards the well, he met an old
woman, who had a coarse, dirty blouse on, carrying two
pails full of water, that hung on a yoke across her bent back.
The old woman carefully put down the pails and bowed,
with the same backward jerk of her head.
After passing the well Nekhludoff entered the -village. It
was a bright, hot day, and oppressive, though only ten
o'clock. At intervals the sun was hidden by the gathering
clouds. An unpleasant, sharp smell of manure filled the air
in the street. It came from carts going up the hillside, but
chiefly from the disturbed manure heaps in the yards of the
huts, by the open gates of which Nekhludoff had to pass.
The peasants, barefooted, their shirts and trousers soiled
with manure, turned to look at the tall, stout gentleman with
the glossy silk ribbon on his grey hat who was walking up
the village street, touching the ground every other step with
a shiny, bright-knobbed walking-stick. The peasants re-
turning from the fields at a trot and jolting in their emptv
carts, took off their hats, and, in their surprise, followed
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let the girl
:h that lay
: and plan-
ron on, and
rself as she
• right arm
/I, with red
tiled up his
rlawing the
le master,"
iged into a
nd, after a
only when
;ward with
met an old
rrying two
■ bent back,
ind bowed,
■village. It
1 only ten
; gathering
lied the air
lillside, but
ards of the
id to pass.
sers soiled
Icman with
A-alking up
r step with
?asants re-
heir empty
^ followed
tTe.r llZP'V!^' extraordinary n,a„ who was walking up
gazi'nra' hinfas he paLf'"""^ """ ™' '° ''^'=" "'"^ »<■
sfomiH'l ''•'^'^■""^ff «•>' passing the fourth gate, he was
stopped by a cart that was coming out, its wheels crakint
°ovS'&"i;a"tr"?' "'"!■ "^^ P-ssed dot.Td' fs
gemlvShint mnth '' ^""'P,'^ ^°'"^^'-^' P^^^ ^^s excited.
dirJSatj srpe.rt'J^.S™"'"^ shoulder-blades. in\
wid, tos'of 5r°v''i^°' °"' °" '°, *<= ''"'' '•°^'i, strewn over
gate, and bowe^J'tfKS^' "" "^ "^" ^^'--^ '° *e
„ X°" f e our ladies' nephew, aren't vou? "
__ Ves, I am their nephew."
lous oW im ''""' '°"" '° '°* "' "P' 'I' ? " -"1 *e garru-
;; Yes, I have. Well, how are you getting on ' "
n>an|rwfe\Ts rit-ve S ^^^^ ^-'-•' ^ -'
^^^ Why so badly !■" Nekhlttdoff asked, stepping inside the
" What is our life but the very worst life? " Qai,l .1,. „i 1
™s"VrTiv!r''^'""'°" ■■"° •"»' P- oTthe^^l't^S
Nekhludoff stopped under the roof
pinJi4"^Trtoie'iT„'?hT';:riirof'';L°''''"^"'
up, showmg the calves of their d rtv bare le^s '' Nn^ f
month passes but I have to buy six )>oodUnf' rr.J^ 5
Where's the money to come from ? " ^ ' ""^ ''^'"' ^"^
" Have you not got enough corn of your own ? "
My own? repeated the old ma„,\vith a smile of con-
* Pood— 36 English pounds.
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i:'
2e, and
year we
tempt ; " why I have onlv got land for
had not enough to last till Christmas.
" What do you do then? "
" What do 'we do? Why, I hire out as a labourer; and
then 1 borrowed some money from your honour. We spent
It all before Lent, and the tax is not paid yet."
" And how much is the tax? "
,'.' ^^y- 't's 17 roubles for my household. Oh, Lord, such
a lite ! One hardly knows one's self how one manages to live
" May I go into your hut? " asked Nekhludoff, stepping
across the yard over the yellow-brown layers of manure that
sm 11 ^" ^^^^"^ "^ ^^ *^^ ^°'"^^' ^"^ ^^^^ ^'^'"^ °^ ^ ^^'■^"^
" Why not? Come in," said the old man, and stepping
quickly vyith his bare feet over the manure, the liquid oozini
betxyeen his toes, he passed Nekhludoff and opened the door
of the hut.
The women arranged the kerchiefs on their heads and let
down their skirts, and stood looking with surprise at the
clean gentleman with gold studs to his sleeves who was en-
tering their house. Two little girls, with r.othing on but
coarse chemises, rushed out of the hut. Nekhludoff took off
his hat and, stooping to get through the low door, entered,
through a passage into the dirty, narrow hut, that smelt of
sour food, and where much space was taken up bv two weav-
mg looms. In the hut an old woman was st? ' " ^g bv the
stove, with the sleeves rolled up over her thin. ' v-v brown
arms.
;' Here is our master come to see us," said the o^d man. '
., i ^ ^'-^S?}}!^ ^ ^"^'■y welcome," said the old woman, kindly.
1 would like to see how you live."
" Well you see how we live. The hut is coming down,
and might kill one any day; but my old man he savs it's
good enough, and so we live like kings," said the brisk old
woman, nervously jerking her head. "I'm gettino- the
dinner ; going to feed the workers." ^
"^ And what are you going to have for dinner^ "
" Our food is very good. First course, bread and kvas •*
second course, kvas and bread," said the old woman, shovv-
»nR lier teeth, which were half worn away.
" No/' seriously; " let me see what you are going to eat."
*Kvas, a kind of sour, non-intoxicant beer made of rye.
St year we
•urer; and
We spent
-ord, such
ges to live
, stepping
inure that
f a strong
stepping
lid oozing
1 the door
ds and let
se at the
3 was en-
g on but
T took off
, entered,
smelt of
wo weav-
'g by the
vy brown
id man.
n, kindly.
ig down,
says it's
brisk old
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:ting
the
d kvas;*
n, show-
r to eat."
f rye.
" Nothing more? »
stood open, and the passag! otS was M nf „ ' °°''
a^^^th/;t;JeTntS„^irrf^ '^^^^^^^^
fnnrl t^, ^"&5, fc^"^'eman wno wanted to see the oejisants'
srMj:^°^ir,Tnti:r '° •>* "-^" -"■--;
sir," said'the'oTr'an' '.'''w?"? ' "'^' S°^^ "-i'hout saying,
sl,o„^d ,o';ho°^1n7he pass^g:^' "' '°" ^°'"^ "--'" "'
old S"' ^°" '"""'^ '- having looked us "fp." said the
£;«a ■: -d rS K e'orn.Xr4 I.P
..JeZ^i^'rs';;f./Xt;irotte„°th1^^^^^^^^^
a^ worn and faded pink one. Nek^iTdot'l^o^^^ tS '^l
th:^hisr N:Sc?rai:°ei?;d'.' ^'''^<' '"^ '°y -""
To Matrona Kharina. Do you know her' "
but^;;,?er 'a'lkS: ^stx ''""' '^"^'■^"^ ^' ^°"'^'^*"^=
; What Matrona is that ? Is she old ? "
Yes, she :s old."
of 'ih^'vira'^lV'v^etS ;•!;" iZ' filf ''T'" -"u
him. Shall we?" ""^ -y^"- ^ es, 1^ edka, we 11 go with
" Yes, but the horses ' "
''Jhey'll be all right, I dare say."
I'edka agreed, and all three went up the street.
I lili
ir
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CHAPTER V.
MASLOVA S AUNT.
Nekhludoff felt more at ease with the boys than with
the grown-up people, and he began talking to them as they
went along. The little one with the pink shirt stopped
laughing, and spoke as sensibly and as exactly as the elder
one.
" Can you tell me who are the poorest people you have
got here ? " asked Nekhludoff.
" The poorest ? Michael is poor, Simon Makaroff, and
Martha, she is very poor."
'* And Anisia, she is still poorer ; she's not even got a cow.
They go begging," said little Fedka.
" She's not got a cow, but they are only three persons,
and Martha's family are five," objected the elder boy.
" But the other's a widow," the pink boy said, standing
up for Anisia.
" You say Anisia is a widow, and Martha is no better than
a widow," said the elder boy ; " she's also no husband."
"And where is her husband?" Nekhludoff asked.
" Feeding vermin in prison." said the elder boy, using this
expression, common among the peasants.
" A year ago lie cut down two birch trees -in the land-
lord's forest," the little pink boy hurried to say, " so he was
locked up ; now he's sitting the sixth month there, and the
wife goes begging. There are three children and a sick
grandmother," he went on with his detailed account.
" And where does she live ? " Nekhludoff asked.
" In this very house," answered the boy, pointing to a hut,
in front of which, on the footpath along which Nekhludoff
was walking, a tiny, flaxen-headed infant stood balancing
himself with difficulty on his rickety legs.
"Vaska! Where's the little scamp got to?" shouted a
woman, with a dirty grey blouse, and a frightened look, as
she ran out of the house, and, rushing forward, seized the
baby before Nekhludoff came up to it, and carried it in, just
& :^\
s than with
iiem as they
lirt stopped
as the elder
le you have
ikaroff, and
n got a cow.
ree persons,
r boy.
id, standing
) better than
isband."
isked.
y, using this
in the land-
" so he was
ere, and the
and a sick
Dunt.
:ed.
ing to a hut,
Nekhludofif
)d balancing
" shouted a
ned look, as
1, seized the
ed it in, just
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as if she were afraid that X
child.
247
ekhludoff would hurt her
I woman' a"d h r"elde'sf ^r;,;'^ ^' ^, '°°"' °" "hich ,![e old
like \o'7^^i°;::'..°' '"^ ""^"'°''""s'e:^:^'7.Tzz
made of different b'its of 'tuff o,' £ head "" ' '""' "^
What are you staring- at? I'll eive it vnn T„c. u j
"Sh7 .r t' :,t ,f^. J,^T" ^Hout^ed^thTe atl^i 5^^
^. •• An?i't:s"tSi„r^h^''s''tj'a:=~^rd'if^n^h "■' <'"°^;
your honour," she said, wiping the SauS he'"apror "aS
i i '
( i
■( f
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f
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I was thinking what devil is it coming in, and it's your
honour, ' the master ' himself, the good gentleman, our bene-
factor. Forgive me, old fool that I am ; I'm getting blind."
Nekhliidoff sat down, and the old woman stood in front
of him, leaning her cheek on her right hand, while the left
held up the sharp elbow of her right arm.
" Dear me, you have grown old, your honour; and you
used to be as fresh as a daisy. And now! Cares also, I
expect? "
" This is what I have come about : Do you remember
Katusha Maslova ? "
" Katerina ? I should think so. Why, she is my niece.
How could I help remembering ; and the tears I have shed
because of her. Why, I know all about it. Eh, sir, who has
not sinned before God? who has not offended against the
Tsar? We know what youth is. You used to be drinking
tea and coffee, so the devil got hold of you. He is strong
at times. What's to be done? Now, if you had chucked
her; but no, just see how you rewarded her, gave her a
hundred roubles. And she ? What has she done ? Had she
but listened to me she might have lived all right. I must say
the truth, though she is my niece : that girl's no good. What
a good place I found her! She would not submit, but
abused her master. Is it for the likes of us to scold gentle-
folk ? Well, she was sent away. And then at the forester's.
She might have lived there ; but no, she would not."
" I want to know about the child. She was confined at
your house was she not ? Where's the child ? "
" As to the child, I considered that well at the time. She
was so bad I never thought she would get up again. Well,
so I christened the baby quite properly, and we sent it to
the Foundlings'. Why should one let an innocent soul
languish when the mother is dying? Others do like this:
they just leave the baby, don't feed it, and it wastes away.
But, thinks I, no ; I'd rather take some trouble, and send it
to the Foundlings'. There was money enough, so I sent
it off.';
" Did you not get its registration number from the
Foundlings' Hospital ? "
" Yes, there was a number, but the baby died," she said.
" It died as soon as she brought it there."
y»
Who is she
That same woman who used to live in Skorodno. She
d it's your
1, our bene-
ting blind."
lod in front
hile the left
r; and you
ires also, I
remember
i my niece.
[ have shed
iir, who has
against the
)e drinking
[e is strong
id chucked
gave her a
? Had she
I must say
jood. What
ubmit, but
:old gentle-
2 forester's,
not."
confined at
: time. She
jain. Well,
e sent it to
locent soul
3 like this :
astes away,
and send it
, so I sent
from the
," she said.
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tl.en, all at once. She l,a< such -.^l' °' '°"''' ''"='' '="^<^'
son of hig cra<lle4 cb^^e'S^:^,, ":fj„f;™;f'"™'-.''
one way or the other U hoM^ 1 n o ' ^^"^ ^'^^'" '"
of theni in. feet to feet an fhVf"'^"- ^° ^''^'^' P"^ f«"r
should not knock aeainstcnlh'^^ ^?^''^' '« ^''^^ thev
at once. She'd puSennn- ^"d «« she took four
keep 'em silent/ the pels '^^ '" ' '"^ ^"'^ '^''^' "^°"ths to
" Well, go on."
,i<e;rg'i/'rSg'^ri''b:hev':''^^;.S^ -'^r T' ^"-
began to sicken." "«"eve. It was nt her house it
" Wl' "?' i' " ?"■= ''^''>' ' " NekhliidofF asked
;; wh, dicfsiX^'p' ^tt:]oT,:^f^''' "'* ^ "'"^•
whe?u-stt' o's's o^^ci'ifr sr "r ' ^°?''- ^^■"■-"•-
ahve. She said she jnst managed ti get t^.oM^" " """^
there it d ed She hrn„o-l,r, .i ® ' '° Moscow, and
was such a wise womall*' ' «"'fi"'e-ali in order. She
ch,U ' "" ="' '''^'"""^°» -""' fi"d out concerning his
i|3.
"odno. She
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CHAPTER VI.
REFLECTIONS OF A LANDLORD.
Again striking his head against both doors, Nekhludoff
went out into the street, where the pink and the white boys
were waiting for him. A few newcomers were standing with
them. Among the women, of whom several had babies in
their arms, was the thin woman with the baby who had the
patchwork cap on its head. She held lightly in her arms
the bloodless infant, who kept strangely smiling all over its
wizened little face, and continually moving its crooked
thumbs.
Nekhludoflf knew the smile to be one of aififermg. He
asked who the woman was.
" It is that very Anisia I told you about," said the elder
boy.
Nekhludoff turned to Anisia.
"How do you live?" he asked. "By what means do
vou gain vour livelihood ? "
" How do I live? I go begging," said Anisia, and began
to cry.
Nekhludoff took out his pocket-book, and gave the
woman a lo-rouble note. He had not had time to take two
steps before another woman with a baby caught him up,
then an old woman, then another young one. All of them
spoke of their poverty, and asked for help. Nekhludoff
gave them the 60 roubles — all in small notes — which he had
with him, and. terribly sad at heart, turned home, i.e., to
the foreman's house.
The foreman met Nekhiudoff with a smile, and informed
him that the peasants would come to the meeting in the
ev -ning. Nekhludoff thanked him, and went straight into
the garden to stroll along the paths strewn over with the
petals of apple-blossom and overgrown with weeds, and to
think over all he had seen.
At first all was quiet, but soon Nekhludoff heard from
behind the foreman's house two angry women's voices in-
, Nekhludoff
le white boys
itanding vvitli
lad babies in
who had the
in her arms
g all over its
its crooked
iffering. He
said the elder
lat means do
la, and began
ind gave the
e to take two
Light him up,
All of them
Nekhliidofif
which he had
home, i.e., to
and informed
leeting in the
: straight into
over with the
weeds, and to
ff heard from
m's voices in-
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X'Siu Inffr"?/;',"'' " f" ■'"''' "'>■' '"rcn.a.K, voice
and evidentlv near her timo n V , ''^'" P''^^'^"^"^
and bigan to smHe '""'^ '"' ''""'^ °"' "' '"' Pockels
calves and even their cou-^ iutl. I] , , '^"'"^ ^'^^^""
.i.e e.,a,e. T,vo co^s bcXngr„g ,o l,e7aS:,': H '^'"^ '"
maintained that the cows h-,d^^7- 7 ", "'°"'™' l'o«ever.
sho"ld'b: Skid off Ser'on""""^'^'"""^ '"=" "- P""
foremaT looWnTback":* 'n'^'^Vh' i""'' 'f' ""= -'"""^
Wm to be a vvitnfss " if ™u d v'. "' ,'', """"'8^ "P°"
.i.at yot, should ha^e In" eTet Thl^ "^""= "°""= ^' "°°"'
" n^'nv '"''" '° "•'' ''"'"^ ""'^ 'or a bit. and thev cot awav "
the c°o™.""'" ^"^>' "'^™ >'°" ■-- "n<lertak«f?;':a^h
the br^lir'^f'^ulJ^rel'tid'lL^o:,' ''°"''' "°' ^'^ •""'
; A„ the Sow\"i*x°t?. ^^.^ trs:.„.„.
round thdr'S' '" ^'^ ^"^so-Greek Church always wear a cross
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iiifr to Xckhludoff. " If I exact no penalty there will bo no
hay."
'* There, now, don't po sinninp like that : my cows nave
never been cau^dit there before," shouted the pregnant
woman.
'* Now that one has been caught, pay up or work it otf.
" All right, I'll work it off : only let me have the cow now,
don't torture her with hunger," she cried, angrily. " As it
is, I have no rest dav or night. Mother in-law is ill, husband
taken to drink ; I'm all alone to do all the work, and my
strength's at an end. I wish you'd choke, you and your
working it ofif."
Nekhludoff asked the foreman to let the women take the
cows, and went back into the garden to go on thinking out
his problem, but there was nothing more to think about.
Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not
stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and
that hq himself had for such a long while not seen what was
so clearly evident. The people were dying out, and had got
used to the dying-out process, and had formed habits of life
adapted to thi's process : there was the great mortality among
the children, the over-working of the women, the under-
feeding, especially of the aged. And so gradually had the
people come to this condition that they did not realise the full
horrors of it. and did not complain. Therefore, we consider
their condition natural and as it should be. Now it seemed
as clear as davlight that the chief cause of the people's great
want was one that they themselves knew and always pointed
out, i.e., that the land which alone could feed them had been
taken from them by the landlords.
And how evident it was that the children ancl the aged
died because they had no milk, and they had no milk because
there was no pasture land, and no land to grow corn or make
hay on. It was quite evident that all the misery of the people
or.' at least bv far the greater part of it, was caused by the
fact that the "land which should feed them was not in their
hands, but in the hands of those who, profiting by their
rights to the land, live by the work of these people. The
land so much needed by men was tilled by these people, who
were on the verge of starvation, so that the corn might be
sold abroad and the owners of the land might buy themselves
hats and canes, and carriages and bronzes, etc. He under-
stood this as clearly as he understood that horses when they
re will be no
iv cows have
he p repliant
ork it off."
tlie cow now,
rily. " As it
s ill, husband
ork, and my
ou and your
men take the
thinking out
r»k about,
he could not
lot see it, and
een what was
, and had ^ot
habits of life
rtality among
n, the under-
ually had the
•ealise the full
?, we consider
[ow it seemed
people's great
Ivvays pointed
hem had been
and the aged
) milk because
corn or make
J of the people
caused by the
IS not in their
iting by their
people. The
se people, who
corn might be
my themselves
c. He under-
ses when thev
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they can get LLff other lamf '"' '^''' ''' ^"^ ^^'^^'^^
founcl'l^aTter'i^'or•at'ts;"'^'l'^^ ^? °"- ^^^^"« -"^^t be
will find then '• hrthoi Hit .« /" '"'^T" ^^^ '" '^- " ^"^1 ^
path under the birch treef' ' ''"^^'^ "^^ '"^"^ ^^°^^'" ^he
paper:tr;:;^^C:::^£^:S^« ^itutions. and in the
rs^^l^'::^'^:- f ^1-4 ti^^i^^^rbSt iJ:
ligh en their onditbn'/r' "^^•«"^^^'^V^'^ ^vould certainh-
they need so much ' •'" ^'"'"^ ^^'^ ^° '^'^^ the land
he was surprised \hat h^'oTd ^^ f'g^Ttfen'r T^ ''' ^"f
to the advantaged i gives omin' An ^'' I" ^,^"^' '''^''^
he had felt ashamed to rtm.^i .. ""^ "°''' ^^ '^"ew whv
-inski. He barbel^ delving Iiinl^ir"^^.^^^ ^S^^"^'"
man could have a ritrht f^ '^ "mself. He knew that no
this right as h.s an f 1.? ^""l^' >''' '^^ '^^^ ^^-^^^epted
which.^n the depth of h^. 1.^7^" ^' P?^^""^^ something
Now he would So ^ct in ?h?s wa^ '"T '^ ^f T ^'^^' ^°
rangement in Kousminski also And hf would alter the ar-
his mind to let the Snd to th^'. }'^ ^^'T*"^'' ^ P''o ^ct in
the rent thev paid or itio be^th"'""''' '"^ '° acknowledge
pay the taxes Ld for comLnafures^T''-' *" "^^^ ^"P^ '"
not the single-tax svstem ^iU ft ^'' '''^'' °^ ^^tirse,
it as could be had undeT'ex in. ' '' "'''" '" "PP^-^^^^^ to
consideration, however w?stha? Tr"'^""'!- "'^ ^^'^^^
longer profit by the po'^Li^ti^'of la de^pr^perty^ would no
be overdone. ^ " ^'"^ ^"^ earrings, might
an''embrd!re;:d^reYtriii^^^ "^:"' y-"^^^^^'-^ ^^°t^^ -d
vieu:,.sa.ve soup tureen with a b"rn '" ^".?^ " "^'^^'•"- ^
table, full of potato souo Thi -. i"! ^'^.""^^^ '^«°^^ «" the
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rather chopped, in pieces, which were here and there covered
with hairs. After the soup more of the same fowl with the
hairs was served roasted, and then curd pasties, very greasy,
and with a great deal of sugar. Little appetising as all this
was, Nekhludoff hardly noticed what he was eating ;_ he was
occupied with the thought which had in a moment dispersed
the sadness with which he had returned from the village.
The foreman's wife kept looking in at the door, whilst the
frightened maid with the earrings brought in the dishes;
and the foreman smiled more and more joyfully, priding
himself on his wife's culinary skill. After dinner, Nekhlu-
doff succeeded, with some trouble, in making the foremar sit
down. In order to revise his own thoughts, and to express
them to some one, he explained his project of letting the land
to the peasants, and asked the foreman for his opinion. The
foreman, smiling as if he had thought all this himself long
ago, and was very pleased to hear it, did not really under-
stand ijt at all. This was not because Nekhludolif did not
express himself clearly, but because according to this project
it turned out that Nekhludoff was giving up his own profit
for the profit of others, and the thought that every one is
only concerned about his own profit, to the harm of others,
was so deeply rooted in the foreman's conceptions that he
imagined he did not understand something when Nekhludoff
said that all the in.-ome from the land must be placed to form
the communal capital of the peasants.
" Oh, I see ; then you, of course, will receive the percent-
ages from that capital," said the foreman, brightening up.
" Dear me ! no. Don't you see, I am giving up the land
altogether."
" But then you will not get any income," said the foreman,
smiling no longer.
" Yes, I am going to give it up."
The foreman sighed heavily, and then began smiling
again. Now he understood. He understood that Nekhlu-
doff was not quite normal, and at once began to consider
how he himself could profit by Nekhludoff 's project of giv-
ing up the land, and tried to see this project in such a way
that he might reap some advantage from it. But when he
saw that this was impossible he grew sorrowful, and the
project ceased to interest him, and he continued to smile
only in order to please the master.
Seeing that the foreman did not understand him, Nekh-
the foreman,
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ludoff let him go and sat down by the windovv.<;ni th.*
all cut about and inlfpH r.,,«r ^ ^ 1 ^'"<JOw-siii, that was
down on paper ' ""^ ^'^^" *° P"^ ^^^^ P'^'m
ants iin tr. fhT^;« , *"^ foreman not to call the neas-
d him, Nekh-
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THE DISINHERITED.
•
a I.
From the crowd assembled in front of the house of the
village elder came the sound of voices; but as soon as
Nekhludoflf came up the talking ceased, and all the peasants
took off their caps, just as those in Kousminski had done.
The peasants here were of a much poorer class than those in
Kousminski. The men wore shoes made of bark and home-
spun shirts and coats. Some had come straight from their
work in their shirts and with bare feet.
Nekhliidoff made an effort, and began his speech by tell-
ing the peasants of his intention to give up his land to them
altogether. The peasants were silent, and the expression
on their faces did not undergo any change.
"Because I hold," said Nekhludoff, "and believe that
every one has a right to the use of the land."
" That's certain. That's so, exactly," said several voices.
Nekhludoff went on to say that the revenue from the land
ought to be divided among all, and that he would therefore
suggest that they should rent the land at a price fixed by
themselves, the rent to form a communal fund for their own
use. Words of approval and agreement were still to be
heard, but the serious faces of the peasants grew still more
serious, and the eyes that had been fixed on the gentleman
dropped, as if they were unwilling to put him to shame by
letting him see that every one had understood his trick, and
that no one would be deceived by him.
Nekhludoff spoke clearly, and the peasants were intelli-
gent, but they did not and could not understand him, for the
same reason that the foreman had so long been unable to
understand him.
They were fully convinced that it is natural for every
man to consider his own interest. The experience of many
generations had proved to them that the landlords always
considered their own interest to the detriment of the peas-
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house of the
t as soon as
1 the peasants
ski had done.
than those in
irk and home-
[ht from their
ipeech by tell-
i land to them
he expression
1 beUeve that
several voices,
from the land
ould therefore
price fixed by
for their own
ire still to be
rew still more
the gentleman
1 to shame by
his trick, and
s were intelli-
d him, for the
leen unable to
iral for every
ience of many
dlords always
t of the peas-
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^IL P^^^^o^'e./? a landlord called them to a meeting and
made them some kmd of a new oflfer. it could eviden "v onlv
mL?X"°ll^J;'i;;^,y?r^^'^^^ ^ave .he u.e of .he
anZr "'""°' "" "' *' """"""^ '" ""^ 'hing, and this is
- f "JO have to p^'^^aTxed .tor W "fo'l,':. ^wisht ^
sevejf5f^^s%°ed.*7::^
.ioned Saf hi' 8^<^V7^ vehement when Nekhludoff men-
&t'si^^^^^^^^^^ Which wo„,d
hitherto'' TJfSat i,^n ti;?''/""" working as we have done
" We'can?=J-L K ' fc"-?^. We are ignorant men."
we hive been uS'to a'\""' '"'' ?' '^'"^ '' "°' w''"
on>.h:Ssri:„,d^,ye'tr^i.rd4^:^ '"-'-"^ •» ''■
hai /' !"^^"* *^^^ ,""^^*' *^« P'-esent arrangement the seed.
Ialrrd\;rov»n,'^^ P^^^^' ^^ V watdt:
IandT''NeirhlwCrat'/i'"i'^^'-^^^ ^^^"^^ *« ^^<=^P^ the
£r ^^^^^^^^^^^
face, who was holding his worn c^p with hi! lefrhand in
a peculiarly straight position, in the same way oldie?s ho d
theirs when commanded to take them off ^ ^^^
h\mi^U^^'.u^^'%^^'^ peasant, who had evidently not vet rid
nimself of the militarv hvonoti^m ho h^-i t-^- " • ^ ,""
while serving his time "' P"""^'^"" ^^ ^'^^ "^c" suojected to
:' It means that you have sufficient land," said Nekhludoff.
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'' No, sir, we have not," said the ex-soldier, with an arti-
ficially pleased look, carefully holding his tattered cap in
front of him, as if offering it to any one who liked to make
use of it.
" Well, anyhow, you'd better think over what I have said."
Nekhludoft' spoke with surprise, and again repeated his
offer.
" We have no need to think about it; as we have said, so
it will be," angrily muttered the morose, toothless old man.
" I shall remain here another day, and if you change your
minds, send to let me know."
The peasants gave no answer.
So Nekhludoff did not succeed in arriving at any result
from this interview.
" If I might make a remark. Prince," said the foreman,
when they got home, " you will never come to any agree-
ment with them ; they are so obstinate. At a meeting these
people just stick in one place, and there is no moving them.
It is bfecause they are frightened of everything. Why, these
very peasants — say that white-haired one, or the dark one,
who were refusing, are intelligent peasants. When one of
them comes to the office and one makes him sit down to
a cup of tea it's like in the Palace of Wisdom — he is quite
a diplomatist," said the foreman, smiling; " he will consider
everything rightly. At a meeting it's a different man— he
keeps repeating one and the same . . ."
" Well, could not some of the more intelligent men be
asked to come here? " said Nekhludoff; " I would carefully
explain it to them."
" That can be done," said the smiling foreman.
"Well, then, would you mind calling them here to-
morrow ? "
" Oh, certainly I will," said the foreman, and smiled still
more joyfully. " I shall call them to-morrow."
" Just hear him ; he's not artful, not he," said a black-
haired peasant, with an unkempt beard, as he sat jolting
from side to side on a well-fed mare, addressing an old man
in a torn coat who rode by his side. The two men were
driving a herd of the peasants' horses to graze in the night,
alongside the highroad and secretly, in the landlord's forest.
" Give you the land for nothing — you need only sign —
have they not done the likes of us often enough? No, my
friend, none of your humbug. Nowadays we have a little
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*, with an arti-
:attered cap in
) liked to make
at I have said."
1 repeated his
e have said, so
:hless old man.
)u change your
f at any result
i the foreman,
to any agree-
meeting these
moving them.
^. Why, these
the dark one,
When one of
n sit down to
tn — he is quite
e will consider
erent man — he
ligent men be
/ould carefully
nan.
hem here te-
nd smiled still
If
said a black-
he sat jolting
ng an old man
:wo men were
e in the night,
idlord's forest,
d only sign —
-igh? No, my
e have a little
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stTay^d. ^' ''^'^''^' '"^ ^'^"" ^^^°"^'"^ ^' ^ ^^It that had
He stopped his horse and looked round, but the coif hn.l
r"oadre""' '^'"^'^ '' '''' ^-^ -^° the nlL" the
th^lalwn'r's Tadow^'S th^' Z^'u^" ^° ^^"'"^ '"^^
unkempt beard,^Sng^^i c^al^^^^^
Tu^^scythes" '"""' "^^' ^'^ ^°^" -^^' " - el^e we'll' bSnt
opi'nforif ?hVa Jd'rsScT '??^"s-'°"5-"f' f-ing his
him swallow you up!" ^ ^'^"' ^"^""^' ^"^ let
" That's certain," answered the old man And then th^.r
were silent, and the tramping of the horses' feet J\nL.t^
highroad was the only sound to be heard ^ ^^'
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GOD S PEACE IN THE HEART.
When Nekhludoff returned he found that the office had
been arranged as a bedroom for him. A high bedstead,
with a feather bed and two large pillows, had been placed
in the room. The bed was covered with a dark red double-
bedded silk quilt, which was elaborately and finely quilted,
and very stiff. It evidently belonged to the trousseau of the
foreman's wife. The foreman offered Nekhludoff the re-
mains of the dinner, which the latter refused, and, excusing
himself for the poorness of the fare and the accommodation,
he left Nekhludoff alone.
The peasants' refusal did not at all bother Nekhludoff.
On the contrary, though at Kousminski his offer had been
accepted and he had even been thanked for it, and here he
was met with suspicion and even enmity, he felt contented
and joyful.
It was close and dirty in the office. Nekhludoff went out
into the yard, and was going into the garden, but he re-
membered: that night, the window of the maid-servant's
room, the side porch, and he felt uncomfortable, and did not
like to pass the spot desecrated by guilty memories. He
sat down on the doorstep, and breathing in the warm air,
balmy with the strong scent of fresh birch leaves, he sat
for a long time looking into the dark garden and listening
to the mill, the nightingales, and some other bird that
whistled monotonously in the bush close by. The light dis-
appeared from the foreman's window; in the east, behind
the barn, appeared the light of the rising moon, and sheet
lightning began to light up the dilapidated house, and the
blooming, over-grown garden more and more frequently.
It began to thunder in the distance, and a black cloud
spread over one-third of the sky. The nightingales and the
other bird were silent. Above the murmur of the water from
the mill came the cackling of geese, and then in the village
and in the foreman's yard the first cocks began to crow
earlier than usual, as they do on warm, thundery nights.
There is a saying that if the cocks crow early the night will
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he office had
^h bedstead,
been placed
: red double-
nely quilted,
-isseau of the
idoflf the re-
nd, excusing
)nimodation,
Nekhludoflf.
fer had been
and here he
;lt contented
off went out
, but he re-
aid-servant's
, and did not
lories. He
le warm air,
aves, he sat
ind listening
r bird that
'he light dis-
east, behind
n, and sheet
use, and the
; frequently,
black cloud
:ales and the
: water from
1 the village
fan to crow
dery nights,
le night will
be a merry one. For Nekhludoff the night was more than
merry; ^t was a happy, joyful night. Imaginatio^?enewed
he impressions of that happy summer whkh he had st ent
here as an innocent lad, and he felt himself as he had Teen
not only at that but at all the best moments of his We He
not only remembered but felt as he had felt when at the
age of 14, he prayed that God would show him th^ mi h
or when as a child he had wept on his mother's an when
parting from her, and promising to be always good anS
never give her pain; he felt as he did when he fnd Nik6-
enka Irtenieff resolved always to support each otheJ in
hvmg a good life and to try to make everybody happy
He remembered how he had been tempted in Ko„.
Zf^'' 'h '1^'^' ^^^ ^^^"" *° regret th^houseanVt".;
orest and the farm and the land,\nd he asked Wmself
1-nt lu^^u'^"^ ^^I"" "°^' ^"^ ^* ^^e" seemed strange to
think that he could regret them. He remembered all nfhad
seen to-day ; the woman with the children, and without her
hi" (NekhTdd'o^:^' " P?°" ^,'^^'"^ ^"^ down trees 1^'
ms (Wekhludoflfs) forest, and the terrible Matrona who
considered, or at least talked as if she considered S
women of her posHion must give themselves to the g^nt e
u- '^^e remembered her relation to the babies, the wav in
which they were taken to the Foundlings' Ho oka Ld
the unfortunate, smiling, wizened baby with the patchwork
IfrJT^ °- '^'T' '°?- ^"^ *hen iie suddenly rer^em-
bered the prison, the shaved heads, the cells the dis^tTf
ing smells, the chains, and, by the ide ofit al the madlv
lavish city life of the rich, himself included ^
Ihe bright moon, now almost full, rose above the barn
uZ.fu^'''^' 1'" ^'l""^' '^^ y^'^' ^"d the iron roof of t"e
ruined house shone bright. As if unwilling to waste ts
^M ' Jm ' n^ghtinga es again began their trills.
Nekhludoflf called to mind how he had begun to consider
his life in the garden of Kousminski when dec dinH hat
he was going to do, and remembered how confused he 1 ad
^mrZ- ^"""^ ^ '' '^^ "°* "^"^^ ^' ^"y decision, hovv many
difficulties each question had presented. He asked himself
these questions now, and was surprised how simple k a
was It was simple because he was not thinkTg^ novv o
wha would be the results for himself, but only tlfouglTt o(
what he had to do. And, strange to say, what he 1 ad
for himself he could not decide, but what he 1 ad
to do
to do for
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others he knew without any doubt. He had no doubt that
he must not leave Katusha, but go on helping lier. He had
no doubt that he must study, investigate, clear up, under-
stand all this business concerning judgment and punish-
ment, which he felt he saw differently to other people. What
would result from it all he did not know, but he knew for
certain that he must do it. And this firm assurance gave
him joy.
The black cloud had spread all over the sky ; the lightning
flashed vividly across the yard and the old house with its
tumble-down porches, the thunder growled overhead. All
the birds were silent, but the leaves rustled and the wind
reached the step where Nekhludoff stood and played with
his hair. One drop came down, then another; then they
came drumming on the dock leaves and on the iron of the
roof, and all the air was filled by a bright flash, and before
Nekhludoff could count three a fearful crash sounded over-
head and spread pealing all over the sky.
Nekhludoff went in,
" Yes, yes," he thought. " The work that our life accom-
plishes, the whole of this work, the meaning of it is not, nor
can be, intelligible to me. What were my aunts for? Why
did Nikolenka Irtenieff die? Why am I living? What was
Katusha for? And my madness? Why that war? Why
my subsequent lawless life? To understand it, to under-
stand the whole of the Master's will is not in my power.
But to do His will, that is written down in my con-
science, is in my power ; that I know for certain. And when
I am fulfilling it I have sureness and peace."
The rain came down in torrents and rushed from the roof
into a tub beneath ; the lightning lit up the house and yard
less frequently. Nekhludoff went into his room, undressed,
and lay down, not without fear of the bugs, whose presence
the dirty, torn wall-papers made him suspect.
" Yes, to feel one's self not the master but a servant," he
thought, and rejoiced at the thought. His fears were not
vain. Hardly had he put out his candle when the vermin
attacked and stung him. " To give up the land and go to
Siberia. Fleas, bugs, dirt! Ah, well; if it must be borne,
I shall bear it." But, in spite of the best of intentions, he
could not bear it, and sat down by the open window and
gazed with admiration at the retreating clouds and the re-
appearing moon
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o doubt tliat
ler. He had
r up, under-
and punish-
)eople. What
he knew for
iurance gave
the Hghtning
)use with its
erhead. All
nd the wind
played with
r; then they
e iron of the
1, and before
)unded over-
ir life accom-
it is not, nor
ts for? Why
? What was
war ? Why
it, to under-
1 my power.
in my con-
. And when
rom the roof
use and yard
n, undressed,
lose presence
servant," he
ars were not
1 the vermin
id and go to
i3t be borne,
titentions, he
window and
5 and the re-
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THE LAND SETTLEMENT.
It was morning before Nekhludoff could fall asleep, and
herefore he woke up late. At noon seven men, chosen
from among the peasants at the foreman's invitation, came
mto the orchard, where the foreman had arranged a table
and benches by diggmg posts into the ground, and fixing
boards on the top, under the apple trees. It took some timi
before the peasants could be persuaded to put on their caps
and to sit down on the benches. Especially firm was the ex-
soldier, who to-day had bark shoes on. He stood erect
holding his cap as they do at funerals, according to military
regulation. When one of them, a respectable-looking,
broad-shouldered old man, with a curly, grizzly beard like
tha of Michael Angelo's " Moses," and grey hair that
curled round the brown, bald forehead, put on his big cap,
and, wrapping his coat round him, got in behind the table
and sat down the rest followed his example. When all had
taken their places Nekhludoff sat down opposite them, and
leaning on the table over the paper on which he had drawn
"P n/s project, he began explaining it.
Whether it was that there were fewer present, or that he
was occupied with the business in hand and not with him-
self, anyhow, this time NekhludofiF felt no confusion He
involuntarily addressed the broad-shouldered old man with
white ringlets in his grizzly beard, expecting approbation or
objections from him. But NekhludofT's conjecture was
^^?'?^J J , respectable-looking old patriarch, though he
nodded his handsome head approvingly or shook it, and
frowned when the others raised an objection, evidently
understood with great difficulty, and onlv when the others
repeated what NekhludoflF had said in their own words A
ittle, almost beardless old fellow, blind in one eve, who ^at bv
the side of the patriarch, and had a patched 'nankeen coat
and old boots on, and, as Nekhludoff found out later was
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an oven-bu.lc cr understood much better. This man moved
h.s brows quickly, attending to Nekhh'.doff's words with an
effort, and at once repeated them in his own way. An old
thick-set man with a white beard and intelligent eyes under-
fcTZ'^T^^I'' '"'-V^''^ ^T^' ^PP^'-t^nity to put in an iron-
ical joke, clearly wishmg to show off. The ex-soldier seemed
also o understand matters, but got mixed, being used S
fonf nnl'^^T' l''^- ^ ^^" "^^" -'^^^ - smalf beard, a
long nose, and a bass voice, who wore clean, home-made
clothes and new bark-plaited shoes, seemed ti be the o e
was n^rof ^ft "rrl^'- Y'' ^f ^^°^^ -'y -hen there
was need of It. The two other old men, the same toothless
one who had shouted a distinct refusal at the meeting the
day before to every proposal of Nekhliidoff 's, and a tall white
lame old man vvith a kind face, his thin legs tightly wraCd
round with strips of linen, said little, thSuglf the^ylsteSed
attentively. First of all Nekhludoff explained his views in
regard o persona property in land. " The land, according
to my K^a, can neither be bought nor sold, becaus^ if it could
be he who has got the money could buy it all and exact anv
tiling he liked for the use o'f the land'from 'those who hav'e"
•" Ttfsf i*''^l'.'?fr;'^ *^' long-nosed man, in a deep bass.
Just so, said the ex-soldier
.nH fZ"-"'^" f ^;h^''.^/ !'"le g'-ass for her cow ; she's caught
and imprisoned," said the white-bearded old ian
Our own land is five versts away, and as to renting anv
It s impossible; the price is raised so high that it won't pav"
added the cross, toothless old man. '' They twTst us into
ropes, wrorse than during serfdom."
"I think as you do, and I count it a sin to possess land «o
I ^:\sh to give it away," said Nekhludoff. ^ ' '°
Well, that's a good thing," said the old man, with curls
ii'Lt^o'Stl^ltr' '-'''''''' ^^'"^'"^ ''^' ^^^h^"^^i^
"I have come here because I no longer wish to possess anv
land and now we must consider the bfst way of d^ ding it "
toot£ Td^n^Ln^ ''' P^^^^"^^' ^^^*'^ ^"'" -d the cLss.
NekhludoflF was abashed for a moment, feeling a susoicion
of his not being honest in these words, but helnstantrTre"
covered, and made use of the remark, in order to e w^^^
what was in his mind, in reply. express
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Dssess land, so
wlZt^t^^^^^o'^Sicfo^fl^^'^"^'" 't -'^^ "but t!
commune, and not ?ol^.at o DlS'i"^'^^
name of a neighbouring vil aee w^th ' r F'^^^ ^^^^ the
All were silent. ThenVhi f^ 1 ■ ^'''^ ^'"'^ ^^"fJ-)
^ " Now. then, tell me how wnni?''^"''.'"'^' " J"^^ ^o."
the peasants if'you had XTt ^.^^^'^^^5'?^ land among
We should divide it m Pn, n ^^'^ ^ekhludoff. **
fa|^^ one confi™ec, this s.a,e„,e„, considering U .a.i.
'-'h, no," sa d the ex-soIrli^V /^"*^"^"aoff asked.
^y- But the tall. ^^^^^:^^^:^:i;^
P/rJl^reX'^^^^'J^:^^^^^^ Y^ ^^^ already pre-
do not work \hemse ve -do not'nl ^^'l'' *^.^" ^^^°«- ^^o
sliares to the rich. The rich w Il^^'?^~-^''" ^^" their
Those who live by workin/ thl 7Jl ^^-n" S:et at the land
will again be scarL rfeS rlh ^. ""• ^''P^-"' ^"^ ^'-^^i
need land into their power " '"'" ^^^'" 8^^^ those who
Just so," quickly said the ex-sold,Vr
who was ploughing for himtif\'nd X r^""'"'^' *° ^'"°^
The tall, reasonable man nrnn^ ^Tu ^'''" another,
made so that they shoidd aS X?'^ ^^'^ "" arrangement be
who ploughed shourget Le nrfnV those
not should get nothing ^ P'°''"'^ ^"^ those who did
ans^er'readrSrS^' CT ^^^'I'^ludoff had also an
would be neLsaVy tha' ^I'shoL'h'^ "", arrangement U
all the horses should be ahke so til ' ^^^''^^''' ^"^ that
^-d, and that ploughs andX° s^^^^^^^^^^^ ^e left be-
'tna ail the implements
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would have ,)e communal property, and that in order to
get that, all i >e people would have to' agree.
" Our peop!'' could not be made to agree in a lifetime,"
said the cross okl man.
" We should have regv^^r fights," said the white-bearded
oJm man with the laughing eyes.
"So that the thing is not as' simple as it looks," said Nekh-
ludoflp, " and this is a thing not only we but many have been
considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is
what he has thought out, and I agree with him."
ixr'u^'^^' ^'°" ^'"^ ^^^ master, and you give it as you like.
What s It to you? The power is yours," said the cross old
man.
This confused NekhludofF, but he was pleased to see that
Jiot he alone was dissatisfied with this interruption.
" You wait a bit, Uncle Simon ; let him tell us about it,"
said the reasonable man, in his imposing bass.
This emboldened Nekhludoflf, and he began to explain
Henry George's single-tax system. " The earth is no man's ;
It IS God's," he began.
" Just so ; that it is," several voices replied.
The land is common to all. All have the same right to it,
but there is good land an^' bad land, and every one would
like to take the good land. How is one to do in order to get
It justly divided? In this way: he that will use the good
land must pay those who have got no land the value of the
land he uses," Nekhludoflf went on, answering his own ques-
tion. " As it would be difficult to say who should pay whom,
and money is needed for communal use, it should be ar-
ranged that he who uses the good land should pay the
amount of the value of his land to the commune for its
needs. Then every one would share equally. U you want
to use land pay fur it— more for the good, less for the bad
land. If you do not wish to use land, don'i v.xv anything,
and those who use the lan<i will pay the taxes'a') < l'' com-
munal expenses for you."
" \Vell, he had a head, this George," said the oven-builder,
moving his brows. " He who has good land must pav
more." ^ ^
" If only the payment is according to our strength," said
■u ■ till man with the bass voice, evidently foreseeing how
t>;. . a; er v^uld end.
'' .*:?e uuynicnt should be not too high and not too low.
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l-^' a traciinp ,„ la,! I " "t * Vs" wlLr'7 '°''',- }""' """'d
anions: you Iktc." "'"" ' wished to arrange
rca'Jms' '' '"''' "■'" '' "Stn; Ks, that woul.l .,„,•• said .he
said NckhL'oV" "'°'"'"" •" ^P^'-'^- '='l«^ it and work i. -
"ilpss- -■""■•■"■•■•
it oTertlh fhr?e"';' t,r'^^'"' ^"' ^^^^^^ ^'- "-" to talk
answer. '''^ °^ ^^'^ commune and to return with the
The peasants said thev woiilrl tail- v
answer, and left in a state nf 1 ! '^ °''^'' ^"^' bring an
was audible as they Went lion '^S?'"^ V''^' '°"^^ talk
the mo^ht the sound of voices c^me'r^^"^'.?"^'."? *« ^^te in
village. """'^^^ ^--^oie along the river from the
^^]^^Si^^.l!^a^^^^o^ .o to work, but spent it
vided mto two parties-one uhJnh "" fommune was di-
profitable one to thems^^es a i ' v ''^"''f'^ '^'' "^^'^ ^^ a
with it, and another ^vlS^su nectl "^^^"8^e'• '" agreeing
did not understand. On he t Kd If "h ^'^'''^ '^' ""^'^ '^
and some were sent to NekhhS . ^ ' ^°^^^^er, all agreed,
were inrtuenced in their decSnltir'^ °^^^- ^hev'
the old men gave of the iSZvJ ^'^^^^^"^^'0" some of
with all fear of deceit They ^hiLr/i"''' ""^''^ ^'^ ^^^ay
gun to consider his soul and w.??l'-^ *^^ gentleman had be-
yat.on.^ The alms which NekS doff "f.f ^-^ ^'^ ^°^ ^'^ ^^I"
in Panovo made his evnh,.w- ^ ^^'^^ S^'^^n away while
Nekhludoff hacf n^terblfo/eXfn'TJ''^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^t
great poverty and so bare a Hfen=^i '° ^^'' '^'^^^^ ^"^^
in this place, and was so appaherhv i^ ^'^Tl' ^^^ ^°^"« to
nioney m charity, thougl Kfk "^^^^^^^^ T"^' ^'"^ §^ive away
able. He could not help g vin^ tlTp V^ '' r ''''', "^^ ^^^son-
'^"^ - ?reat deal. havinS fel^l!, .' f^°"^>'' ^^ which he now
sold the year before, ;
had
hel
i^
, o- -"... ±yji uie lorest
also the hand money for the
ff-"
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implements and stock in Koiisminski. As soon as it was
known that the master was giving money in charity, crowds
of people, chiefly women, began to come to ask him for
help. He did not in the least know how to deal with them,
how to decide, how much, and whom to give to. He felt that
to refuse to give money, of which he had a great deal, to
poor people was impossible, yet to give casually to those who
asked was not wise. The last day he spent in Panovo, Nekh-
ludoff looked over the things left in his aunts' house, and in
the bottom drawer of the mahogany wardrobe, with the
brass lions' heads with rings through them, he found many
letters, and amongst them a photograph of a group, con-
sistmg of his aunts, Sophia Ivanovna and Mary Ivanovna, a
student, and Katusha. Of all the things in the house he
took only the letters and the photograph. The rest he left
to the miller who, at the smiling foreman's recommendation,
had bought the house and all it contained, to be taken down
and carried away, at one-tenth of the real value.
Recalling the feeling of regret at the loss of his property
which he had felt in Kousminski, Nekhludoflf was surprised
how he could have felt this regret. Now he felt nothing but
unceasing joy at the deliverance, and a sensation of newness
something like that which a traveller must experience when
discovering new countries.
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CHAPTER X.
NEKHLUDOFF RETURNS TO TOWN.
was emotv hnf- nr.f ;« ^-j , ^wdy. iNiekniudoff s room
ludoflf after the imolss^nnf/h'''^'-''' ^'^^.^^^eful to Nekh-
peasants had made rh^",/,^.^"^'^f SV^' "^^ °^ ^'^^
in aterytodlf aX^^^^ ^°"P^^ ^^ -°-«
within eL^rS of the n?r''"'^':,'^''^?" lodging-house
that some of iS thiW shou kl h^ '"''; .^^'"^. ^^^^" ^'-^l^'-^
the advocate. It was cold "ut of I "'''fV^' ^^"^ *« «^«
and stormv weather t Tad TjJ^ doors. After some rainy
in spring. ' It wa so cold thl M ti?," /^^^x' ^' '^ °^t^" ^oes
his lighf overcoat and wll.H f ^^u^^? ^"'^ ^^'^^ '^hillv in
HismlndwasfildwfhThSu oftL^^^^ '". ^? ^^™^-
children, old men and",ll?il^ ^ P^f^^"*''^^^e women,
he seemed to have seen for ttr^?^ '"^^ ^•^?""^«^ ^'^^^^^
ing. old-faced infaVt^ri^Lg witT^calfl^^^^^^^^^^^ f*^^ ^"^^^^
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appearance of the clean, well-fed shopkeepers, like whom
you could not find one peasant in the country. These men
were apparently convinced that the pains they took to de-
ceive the people who did not know much about their goods
was not a useless but rather an important business. The
coachmen with their broad hips and rows of buttons down
their sides, and the door-keepers with gold cords on their
caps, the servant-girls with their aprons and curly fringes
and especially the smart isvostchiks with the nape of their
necks clean shaved, as they sat lolling back in their traps
and examined the passers-by with dissolute and contemp-
tuous air, looked well fed. In all these people Nekhludoff
could not now help seeing some of these very peasants who
had been driven into the town by lack of land. Some of the
peasants driven to the town had found means of profiting bv
the conditions of town life and had become like the gentle-
folk and were pleased with their position ; others were in a
worse position than they had been in the country and were
more to be pitied than the country people.
Such seemed the bootmakers Nekhludoflf saw in the cel-
lar : the pale, dishevelled washerwomen with their thin bare
arms ironing at an open window, out of which streamed
soapy steam ; such the two house-painters with their aprons
stockingless feet, all bespattered and smeared with paint'
vvhom Nekhludoflf met— their weak, brown arms bared to
above the elbows— carrying a pailful of paint, and quarrel-
ling with each other. Their faces looked haggard and cross.
Ihe dark faces of the carters jolting along in their carts
bore the same expression, and so did the faces of the tattered
men and women who stood begging at the street corners.
J he same kind of faces were to be seen at the open windows
of the eating-houses which Nekhludoflf passed. By the
dirty tables on which stood tea things and bottles, and be-
tween which waiters dressed in white shirts were rushing
hither and thither, sat shouting and singing red, perspirini
men with stupefied faces. One sat by the window with lifted
brows and pouting lips and fixed eyes as if trying to remem-
ber something.
.u"^"!^ J''^^,?'"^ ^^^^ ^" gathered here?" Nekhludoflf
thought, breathing in together with the dust which the cold
wind blew towards him the air filled with the smell of rank
oil and fresh paint.
In one street he met a row of carts loaded with something
s, like whom
. These men
y took to de-
it their goods
Lisiness. The
buttons down
ords on their
:urly fringes,
nape of their
n their traps,
md contemp-
e Nekhludoff
peasants who
Some of the
f profiting by
:e the gentle-
;rs were in a
try and were
w in the cel-
eir thin, bare
ich streamed
their aprons,
with paint,
ms bared to
and quarrel-
rd and cross.
1 their carts
t the tattered
reet corners.
)en windows
ed. By the
ties, and be-
^ere rushing
I, perspiring
V with Hfted
g to remem-
Nekhludoff
ich the cold
nell of rank
1 something
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made of iron, that rattled so on the uneven pavement that it
made his ears and head ache. He started walking sti 1 faster
caired'rvn'aiSe'n' ^°" 'I 'T' ^^^^ ^^ heird him S
called by name. He stopped and saw an officer with sharo-
pom ed moustaches and shining face who sat in the trap of a
swell tsvostM and waved his hand in a friendly mTnner
" N 'i'^,r^''^^1'"^""^^"""y ^°"&' ^hite teeth. ^ '
Nekhludoflf ! Can it be you > "
Nekhludoff's first feeling was one of pleasure " Ah
Schonbock !" he exclaimed jovfully; but he knevv he next
moment that there was nothing to be' joyful about
mIm' Y^l^^^^ Schonbock who had been in the house of
Nekhludoff's aunts that day, and whom Nekhludoff had
quite lost out of sight, but about whom he had heard that
iL'^LvaW andtv '^ '^' ^°"^'^°^ managed to remlin'L'
tne cavalry, and by some means or other still kept his olace
sajd, getting out of the trap and moving Wss&ers about
toge°tr "iT trr>/°""" r"'- .^°^ here, we tusfdTne
cently?" ^ P'*" '^''"^ 'hey feed one de-
an:Je>;Lin'.tt oJ./oThoTS c'oVS'ge?^r!:l'S''ht
companion without hurting him ^ ^'^
;; And what has brought you here ? " he asked.
Business, old fellow. Guardianship business I am a
guardian now. I am managing Samanoff's affa'rs-the mil!
lonaire, you know. He has softening of the brain Tnd
he s got fify-four thousand desiatins of land," he said wi?h
peculiar pride, as if he had himself made all these l^lS,
to thrpta;;\rs"Thi;"%"^^'^^^^'- ^" ^^^' ^-d waTlei
rnnr^ fiP • 1 : , ^^ "^'"^ "°* P^^ anything. There were
more than eighty thousand roubles debts. I changed haU
in one year and have got 70 per cent, more out o"ft What
\rS ' !r^^°^ ^^^' • " ^^ ^s^^ed proudly. ^^'^^
Nekhludoff remembered having heard that this Schnn
bock, just because he had spent aH he had had attained bv'
n,^Xo"t-«"-- the P?^ °^ guardian'to a Hch'olJ
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rid of him without oflfending him?" thought Nekhludoff
ind Kn^'V^' V' f "^.^^ ^'''} ^^^ stiffened mouitache
whl' 1" ^.°r^?J"^"'^^y' good-humoured chatter about
rJ;: guardifn ' '"^ '"^' ^"' '^^ '^^^^'"^ ^^°"* h'^ <i-"g^
]' Well, then, where do we dine ? "
Really, I have no time to spare," said Nekhludoff
glancmg at his watch. i^eKmuaoiT,
the'rJ?'""' ^°°'' ^^'■^- '^°-"^g^^^t' at tl^e races-will you be
^^ No, I shall not be there."
" Do come. I have none of my own now, but I back
Grisha s horses. You remember; he has a fine stud You^ll
come^ won't you? And we'll have some supper together.!!
ludoff'withTsmle "' '"^^^ "^^' ^°" ''''''''" ^^^^^k'-
Shain ^ve^youl'lift?"- ^"' "'^^^ ''' ^°" °^ *° "-?
corner.^' ^°'"^ *° '^^ ^" advocate, close to here-round the
fh'l ?^' ^^'' °u ^°"'"'^- ^°" ^ave got something to do with
hear^' sardXv'\*"r,^ 'T " P"^^"^'-^' mediator I
hear said Schonbock, laughing. "The Korchagins told
Te'l leF '°''" ^''''^^- ^^"' ^°^« it all mean?
" Yes, yes, it is quite true," Nekhludoff answered • " but I
cannot tell you about it in the street " '
com^LXTaie^? " "'"^'^^ ""^ ^ ^^^"^^ ^"* ^°" -"
angry witi mt'''' ''" "°' ^^''^ '° ^°"^^- ^^^^^^ ^o not be
L'^^P'^J. P^^*" "'^' "o- Where do you live?" And
suddenly his face became serious, his eyes fixld" and he
drew up his brows. He seemed to be trying to remember
something, and Nekhludoff noticed the same dulUxores
sion as that of the man with the raised brows and ?ou
mg Jips whom he had seen at the window Tthr ea?ing-
Ji-^S'l-^u V'' I?>tnot? Have you got the parcels?"
said Schonbock, turning to the isvostchik ^ '
m-tLl'^LA^''''^'Y' ^ ^^ ^^'■y ^^^^ i"deed to have
ma you, and warmly pressing Nekhludoff's hand, h^
jumped into the trap and waved his white-gloved hand in
t Nekhludoff,
ed moustache
chatter about
)ut his doings
Nekhludoff,
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to be like that, thouffh I W3« 7,^. f' ,.,"=- 1 wished
though, of living ™y"ge in that ^ay."*""" '"'' ''• ^"d I
^ but I back
!stud. You'll
er together."
" said Nekh-
off to now?
e — round the
ig to do with
mediator, I
chagins told
it all mean ?
sred ; " but I
tut you will
se do not be
ive?" And
ced, and he
3 remember
dull expres-
s and pout-
the eating-
e parcels ? "
;ed to have
hand, he
ed hand in
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CHAPTER XI.
AN advocate's views ON JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS.
Nekhludoff was admitted by the advocate before his
turn. The advocate at once commenced to talk about the
Menshoflfs' case, which he had read with indignation at the
inconsistency of the accusation.
" This case is perfectly revolting," he said ; " it is verv
likely that the owner himself set fire to the building in order
to get the insurance money, and the chief thing is that there
is no evidence to prove the Menshoflfs' guilt. There are no
proofs whatever. It is all owing to the special zeal of the
examining magistrate and the carelessness of the prose-
cutor. If they are tried here, and not in a provincial court,
I guarantee that they will be acquitted, and I shall charge
nothing. Now then, the next case, that of Iheodosia Biru-
koflf. The appeal to the Emperor is written. If you go to
Petersburg, you'd better take it with you, and hand it in
yourself, with a request of your own, or else they will only
make a few inquiries, and nothing will come of it. You
must try and get at some of the influential members of the
Appeal Committee."
;;Well, is this all?"
" No ; here I have a letter . . . I see you have turned
into a pipe — a spout through which all the complaints of
the prison ire poured," said the advocate, with a smile. " It
is too much ; you'll not be able to manage it."
" No, but this is a striking case," said Nekhludoflf, and
gave a brief outline of the case of a peasant who began to
read the Gospels to the peasants in the village, and to dis-
cuss them with his friends. The priests regarded this as a
crime and informed the authorities. The magistrate ex-
amined him and the public prosecutor drew up an act of
indictment, and the law courts committed him for trial.
" This is really too terrible," Nekhludoflf said. " Can it
be true?"
" What are you surprised at ? "
flri.
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whSp,rob^^l't^„I -i,- "Hderstand the police-officer,
ac. of .hrt'kind.'^ An educa."d'mar'""'°^.''^^"'"8 "P -"
are just officials S f^^nM*, "," 1"'"= different. They
ceive their sXies a^nd wa^'t'l''''™! P^>-''''y- They re-
according to' orders and in ^,hlP^^'"'"§^ '* *° others not
planations given by thrChnUpr^-^^"^^"^"^^ the ex-
dox religion in the^presS:" o^'th? ^^"^ '^' ^'''^ "^''^O'
ifi^r'Z'^:^::^-^,^^ td, these gentlemen, the
them without gratitude Suse if T^''* ^ '^""°^ ^^^^^ ^t
you, and all of us it is onTv n?- ^.^"^ "o* »" Prison, and
deprive us of our p vi Lee ^nd'"^ 'a '^''[. '^^"^"^««' To
mote parts of Siberia 3d hM "^ "l^" *° ^^^ ^^ss re-
" Well, if it is so and ,7 ^" ""^J^ *^'"§^ ^°^ them."
f ro.«re.r and others who 'In '7'^\"^ -I'P^"^^ «" the
laws or not, what are the't°rials fof. '""' "*^^'- ^"^^^^^ the
-^^^'1^^^^^^^^^^ do put
we might have a talk abou? that' Inn '^P^^i°«ophy. Well,
Saturday? You will mee? men of l^' ^°,"'^ ^^^ ^^^^ on
artists at my house Tnd fh^n ''•^'?^^' ^'terary men, and
eral questioL," Si " e IdToc^trnSnn''""" *^.^^^ ^-
' general questions " with iroSnf.T "^""f 5."^ ^^^ ^O'-ds
my wife? Do come." P^*^°'- ^ou have met
thitle wasry/ngTn unt7ut!r': ft ""^^^'-^off, and felt
do anything it^wo^^M be to leer ^"^T '^^'[^ ^' '''''^ to
literary evening, and" the circL ^n^'^if ^ ^'"""^ ?' advocate's
and literature. "^^'^ °^ the men of science, art,
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The laugh with which the advocate met Nekhludoff's
remark that trials could have no meaning if the judges
might enforce the laws or not, according to their notion,
and the tone with which he pronounced the words " philoso-
phy " and " general questions " proved to Nekhludoff how
very differently he and the advocate and, probably, the advo-
cate s friends, looked at things ; and he felt that in spite of
the distance that now existed between himself and his
former companions, Schonbock, etc., the difference between
himself and the circle of the advocate and his friends was
still greater.
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Nekhludoff's
F the judges
their notion,
■ds " philoso-
:hludoff how
>ly, the advo-
it in spite of
self and his
jnce between
friends was
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CHAPTER XII.
WHY THE PEASANTS FLOCK TO TOWN.
NelhmJoffTooT^n tS/'^fh' '' ^'^ f "'"^ ''''' -
aged man with an inteXen f^nrl^- r/"'"^'^' ^ "^'^^1^"
towards NekhlWoff as Lev l--^^'."^ ^^"?' ^"''"^d round
streets and poinJed to aX^Touse'S'^^"^^'?' °1*^^
there. * °"^'^ '™' was being built
bu,"ld"'heTaJ'Si?b^""'"'''"'^ '""■'' «>., have begun to
ing of the houseind pro^dTu '^ ''''"'"""' '"' ""=''""''-
ing were fi rmlyZed Toge her^irfr^nT' °J '"e s.aifold-
wiPh"pl J;^r!rv^^ Wth^rt^ta&f t ■P"--"
pethiy';ra"ct'Sorn"Tefsr?l''tT/t'"^
and the contractor wl^ . ^^^'^ by which the architect
going in.""rd°i;or ^re^' h"e;"§^ Se 'tltftH""". "^
work as well as thn«p ti,=t\v,.i^ .1. are— those thai do the
to be; that whUe thefr wiveTatVor <'° ■'-«>at. it ought
are labouring beyond thdrslre„«h'7.u°-^''1.*'"' "^hild,
the patchwo?k cans dJ^™<!l *^ ' ^"t "'^"' "children with
with^uffertag an^d'eomor? theTl tHi''f ^°''' S^^^^' ^""ile
Ne«jMd^off.ho;^^^^^ the„, -
out aloud ' ' ''"P'^ '"'"''" '" ^"i* """ing his thought
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,„ " ^t!>L f t"P'd ? " replied the isvostchik^
"% . Thanks to it. the people get work
But the work is useless."
in an offended
it's not stupid."
It
be
the
.-. , ; •, - u-^;'^^^^^^' o'" why should it b
M ff!^-, J^^ P^^P^e set bread by it."
f^f^u I °^ was silent, and it would have been difficult
to talk because of the clatter the wheels made
turned'off* th^ n^'. "T"', *''' P"'°"' ^"^ the isvostchik
turned off the paved on to the macadamised road it became
easier to talk, and he again turned to Nelrhludoff
And what a lot of these people are flocking to the town
nowadays; it's awful," he said, turning round on the box
comin^^'T^ ? \^^''^ °^ P^^^^"t workmen wl were
coming towards them, carryine- saws avec <.v Jr.Z-
coats and bags strapped to thei?1houklers ' ^^"^^P^'^'"^'
w More than in other years? " Nekhludoff asked,
lust te^rrihi; TU ^^^'^''^'y P^^^^J' crowded, so that it's
iTe^S'^kt^lortSfg:^^^^^^ ''"^ '''' -^^'^^^^ ^^-^
"Why is that?" ■
;; They've increased. There's no room for them."
stay^tL'^ge?'"'" ''"' "^^^^"'- ^^^ ^° ^^ ^^ey
toSd'' "°''''"^ ^°' '^'"^ *° ^° '" ^^" village-no land
Nekhludoff felt as one does when touching a sore place
It feels as if the bruised part was always being hit • yet ft fs
only because the place is sore that the touch is felt' ^
Is It possible that the same thing is happening everv-
abo^? he aufntrtf nVT^'^^^^^
aDout the quantity of land in his village, how much land
the man himself had, and why he had left the cotmtrv
h..rJ^.l ^ '^f'^'l''' P^'" "'^"' s^'*'" lie said. " Our' family
have three men's shares of the land. My father anT a
brotner are at home, and manage the land, and anote?
brother is servmg in the army. But there's nothing to
cT.Too."''" '"''" '" ^^^' '^'^"^^^^ of cominTto Ls-
" And cannot land be rented ? "
"How's one to rent it nowadays? The gentry, such as
they were, have squandered all theirs. Men of business
have got It all into their own hands. One can" r.nt U rom
them. They farm it themselves. We have a Frenchman
in an offended
; it's not stupid."
done?" said the
ve been difficult
le.
d the isvostchik
I road, it became
udoff.
cing to the town
und on the box
:men wlio were
'ces, sh?.epskins,
asked.
ded, so that it's
workmen about
•r them."
hy do not they
iliage— no land
ig a sore place,
ng hit ; yet it is
is felt.
ppening every-
: the isvostchik
ow much land
I country.
" Our family
father and a
I, and another
s's nothing to
)ming to Mos-
entry, such as
n of business
't rent it from
a Frenchman
'A GENUARMK }IAD To TOUrw run -,
lOUCH IHt SLEKVE UV HER cOAr
Book I. Chapter 24.
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theafrp • ,f Jc o "f.'^^.'^^s wigs for the actors in the bip-
in his power- he ust HHp! 1 ^'^u^^' ^"^ "°^ ^^ ^as us
be thanked he is fJn^H " "\-' ^^ P^^^ses. The Lord
RussianrLsuchabrufe to'^'cod h''^^= ""^^^ ^'^ ^'f^' ^
robs the people It's awfnl w m u""^ ^^l""^ °" "'• ^he
I to drive you to the emrinP. ? p"' ^f . *t" P''^^^"- Am
do it, though" entrance? I m afraid they'll not let us
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CHAPTER XIII.
NURSE MASLOVA.
When he rang the bell at the front entrance Nekhludoflf's
heart stood still with horror as he thought of the state he
might findMaslova in to-day, and at the mystery that he felt to-
be in her and in the people that were collected in the prison.
He asked the jailer who opened the door for Maslova. After
making the necessary inquiry the jailer informed him that
she was in the hospital. Nekhludoff went there. A kindly
old man, the hospital doorkeeper, let him in at once and,
after asking Nekhludoff whom he wanted, directed him to the
children's ward. A young doctor saturated with carbolic
acid met Nekhludoff in the passage and asked him severely
what he wanted. This doctor was always making all sort's
of concessions to the prisoners, and was therefore continu-
ally coming into conflict with the prison authorities and
even with the head doctor. Fearing lest Nekhludoff should
demand something unlawful, and wishing to show that he
made no exceptions for any one, he pretended to be cross.
" There are no women here ; it is the children's ward," he
said.
" Yes, I know ; but a prisoner has been removed here to
be an assistant nurse."
"Yes, there are two such here. Then whom do vou
want?" ^
" I am closely connected with one of them, named Mas-
lova," Nekhludoff answered, " and should like to speak to
her. I am going to Petersburg to hand in an appeal to the
Senate about her case and should like to give her this. It is
only a photo," Nekhludoff said, taking an envelope out of
his pocket.
" All right, you may do that," said the doctor, relenting,
and turning to an old woman with a white apron, he told
her to call the prisoner — Nurse Maslova^
" Will you take a seat, or go into the waiting-room ? "
Tekhludoff's
the state he
lat he felt to
I the prison,
ilova. After
jd him that
. A kindly
t once and,
1 him to the
ith carbolic
im severely
ng all sorts
>re continu-
lorities and
doff should
ow that he
to be cross.
; ward," he
^ed here to
3m do you
amed Mas-
to speak to
)peal to the
this. It is
lope out of
', relenting,
on, he told
room ? "
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abil^Xfinl^^^^^ft; -" rf ""^ 'y *e favour'
a.ked how they were saSef^J, m1 ^o^vf •™f,?\'"'"' ""
, Oh, she IS all rie-ht «;h« V ^^i^?^ova m the hospital
the conditions of her^formfr lif^Tn^^ 1'"'^ ^'\ '^ yo" take
>s." ™" iiie into account. But here she
MZs^'tSo^^^reallu" s'.rrH°i *^ "'"'''■ '"""wed bv
a kerchief that onitP ^„ J^f,'' ''''"«• a white apron ami
Nekhludoffher fac'flushed''a„d^': ^^'"- W"^" ^^e' saw
then frowned, and with down.A'^^ "°PP^'' ^' 'f hesitating
h,m along th^ strip of carpetl^ir ",!!!' "r'^'^' '°^vard^3
When she came up to Nekhludoff K™i^J^ °' ""^ Pa«age.
him her hand, and then ravi^i, ^^^ ''"' "°t wish to give
hidoff had not seen her^^^ce Ihf X'"^ l"^^". ^""- N'^h!
forgiveness for havino- been in ! '' ■"'^^" ^''^ "'^Sged his
to find her the same a's she Jas tlf.*""'^' """^ ^^ ^^P«ted
quite different. There was HIk"' ^"' '""''ay she was
fion of her face, resen-e^n/T"'""^ ""^ '» the expres-
him animosity toShfm fcfrt f^' ""l " ^^""^^ '<,
ready said to the doctor, ™' that hi " "^'" ^^ ^ad al-
burg and he handed he; £' envlll """'ST^ to Peters-
which he had brought from Pa„6vt "^ «""■ "■» Photograph
woufd hke1t."'rke'^?-;r°-"'^ ^"old photo; perhaps you
prise'lrfer^"l^tg%fe^^s'iAt!~''f4f """ ««> 3«r.
took the phot'o silentfyl'd'p: tf thf'b b^o'jl! '" ""'^ '°^? "
;;oh!y^S;?tVirr'igt'^;e^?°«-^^^^
"Not too difficult?" ""««aid.
" r L"°' ,5"',' ™ "°' "sed to it yet "
.heri...™ ^'^* f- yotlr sake. An^ytw, it is better than
agail'^" -"ercwhere?" she asked, her face flushing
:f^^^r^^-Z%T'''">°« hurriedly answered.
i thmk the people are betfpr tr
there must be there." ^'- ^^'^ ^'^ "one such as
There are many good ones there," she said.
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" I have been seeing about the Menshoffs, and hope they
will be liberated/' said Nekhludoff.
" God grant they may. Such a splendid old woman," she
said, again repeating her opinion of the old woman, and
slightly smiling.
" I am going to Petersburg to-day. Your case will come
on soon, and I hope the sentence will be repealed."
" Whether it is repealed or not won't matter now," she
said.
"Why not now?"
" So," she said, looking with a quick, questioning glance
into his eyes.
Nekhludoflf understood the word and the look to mean
that she wished to know whether he still kept firm to his
decision or had accepted her refusal.
" I do not know why it does not matter to you," he said.
" It certainly does not matter as far as I am concerned
whether you are acquitted or not. I am ready to do what I
told you in any case," he said decidedly.
She lifted her head and her black squinting eyes remained
fixed on him and beyond him, and her face beamed with joy.
But the words she spoke were very different from what her
eyes said.
" You should not speak like that," she said.
" I am saying it so that you should know."
" Everything has been said about that, and there is no use
speaking," she said, with difficulty repressing a smile.
A sudden noise came from the hospital ward, and the
sound of a child crying.
" I think they are calling me," she said, and looked round
uneasily.
" Well, good-bye, then," he said. She pretended not to
see his extended hand, and, without taking it, turned away
and hastily walked along the strip of carpet, trying to hide
the triumph she felt.
" What is going on in her? What is she thinking? What
does she feel ? Does she mean to prove me, or can she really
not forgive me? Is it that she cannot or that she will not
express what she feels and thinks? Has she softened or
hardened?" he asked himself, and could find no answer.
He only knew that she had altered and that an important
change was going on in her soul, and this change united him
not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change
id hope they
^^oman," she
woman, and
se will come
d."
r now," she
Dning glance
)ok to mean
; firm to his
DU," he said.
1 concerned
to do what I
/es remained
led with joy.
Dm what her
ere is no use
smile.
ird, and the
ooked round
;nded not to
turned away
■ying to hide
<ing ? What
an she really
she will not
softened or
. no answer,
in important
;e united him
: that change
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■;^^t!JS:td t^.:li-^- ^-^^^^ on a state of
s Jb^Mirrtgan^in'ob'',^ "''^^ t^^^ ^^^^ ^ight
to arrange one of the beds and h'"^' '° '^' ""'"^^'^ <'''^''>
the shee, she slipped^andta^ry^eirdt? ""''' ^°^ '^' ^^^
lootng'aVhTlSe? V^t ^ '^"^^^'^^ "-^' who was
herself and buVsr^nto'louS^tX^td"' ^^^^ ^°"^^^"
laughter that several of the chfldrin li k '"''^ contagious
and one of the sisters retVed he7"antily""' °"^ ^^"^''"^'
^^^^^^^^^^^ you are where
ing''the°::etf^t^'^^^^^^^ ^^,^ -- -"t; but, catch-
iaugh she again bfirst'oS!:'^^^^^^^ "^^ -' ^"^-d to
admiringl? ; but onlv in tL ! • ^"^^^P^ and looked at it
and alone -in the bedroom wvl'"l"^ i^^^"" '^^ was oflF duty
she take it quiL outT.h^'^ '^ '^^'"^ ^^^^ ^ ""rse. d d
faded yellow'pfotog^^^^^^ long at the
tail of faces and cloth'ng, the s e.f ^f th^' '^'1 ^"^'■>' ^^-
bushes which served as a harL5.? A , • ^^''anda. and the
aunts' faces, and could „orce?se?rom Ih '"' ''''' ^"^ ^^^
herself-her pretty youn- face 'L h. ^^f^'""§- especially
forehead. She was so\=^^k ^ !l *''^ ,''"''^y l^^''" round the
fellow-nurse conreTnto'the'room' '''' ^'^ ''' "°^ ^^^ h-
fat nurst Stooping 'ovefX ''nhoV' "^V'^^ ^ood-natured,
You.?" i' "S over the photograph. "Who's this.?
face whh fsmill"^' ^'''''''' ^^^"^^ -^o her companion's
" And who's this ? "
^'' Himself."
" xt"^J^ *^'^ ^^^ mother? "
years sTnce then "^°'' *'" " '''""i- Why, it must be lo
appeared between'h^r brows! ^ ' ^ '""^' ^'"' * <'«^P ""'e
fl
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"Why so? Your way of life must have been an easy
one."
" Easy, indeed," Maslova reiterated, closing her eyes and
shaking her head. " It is hell."
" Why, what makes it so ? "
" What makes it so ! From eight till four in the morning,
and every night the same ! "
" Then why don't they give it up ? "
" They can't give it up if they want to. But what's the
use of talking?" Maslova said,' jumping up and throwing
the photograph into the drawer of the table. And with dif-
ficulty repressing angry tears, she ran out into the passage
and slammed the door.
While looking at the group she imagined herself such as
she was there and dreamt of her happiness then and of the
possibility of happiness with hmi now. But her companion's
words reminded her of what she was now and what she had
been, and brought back all the horrors of that life, which she
had felt but dimly, and not allowed herself to realise.
It was only now that the memory of all those terrible nights
came vividly back to her, especially one during the carnival,
when she was expecting a student who had promised to buy
her out. She remembered how she — wearing her low-
necked silk dress stained with wine, a red bow in her untidy
hair, wearied, weak, half tipsy, having seen her visitors off,
sat down during an interval in the dancing by the piano be-
side the bony pianiste with the blotchy face, who played the
accompaniments to the violin, and began complaining of her
hard fate ; and how this pianiste said that she, too, was feeling
how heavy her position was and would like to change it ; and
how Clara suddenly came up to them ; and how they all three
decided to change their life. They thought that the night
was over, and were about to go away, when suddenly the
noise of tipsy voices was herd in the ante-room. The vio-
linist played a tune and the pianiste began hammering the
first figure of a quadrille on the piano, to the tune of a most
merry Russian song. A small, perspiring man, smelling of
spirits, with a white tie and swallow-tail coat, which he took
off after the first figure, came up to her, hiccoughing, and
caught her up, while another fat man, with a beard, and also
wearing a dress-coat Cthey had come straight from a ball")
caught Clara up, and for a long time they turned, danced,
screamed, drank. ... And so it went -»n for another
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year, and another anri o *u- i r. ^ -^
ing? And he was' the cause' of it^n" f "J^ ^^^ ^elp chan.-
former bitterness against hf- V ^"'i ^"^' suddenly, a) 1 llr
to reproach him. sTrreVre«e.T°^'' '^' 'vished to sco d
tunity of repeating to him on- ''''"F "^^^^cted the oppor-
vvould not give in to h m °"'^^,7'°'"^ ^^at she knew him ^n.i
spirUually i Cit,\^,^XLZ''' ^.-^u-of re^
annk m order to stifle th^ t"vs>icaiiy. And she lone-ed fr.r
useless feeling oV^^p oa'^htli^"' ^''^ 'o hersel "fnd .t
broken her word if she hi.^K--..'^"'' she would hav»
could no, get an; spirits !«« h '"'' '^- P"'™- Here she
assistant, and she was afraM^f l,^ \PpIying to the medical
her, and intimate relations with il™ ^"^""^ ^' "=«ie up to
now. After sitting a wSle on a fn" "J^^disgusting to he?
turned to her little^oom and wfthouT™" ■""= P^'^^^e she re-
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AN ARISTOCRATIC CIRCLE.
Nektiludoff had four matters to attend to in Petersburg.
The first was the appeal to the Senate in Maslova's case ; the
second, to hand in Theodosia Birukoff's petition to the com-
mittee ; the third, to comply with Vera Doukhova's requests
—i.e., try to get her friend Shoustova released from prison,
and get permission for a mother to visit her son in prison.
Vera Doukhova had written to him about this, and he was
going to the Gendarmerie Office to attend to these two mat-
ters, which he counted as one.
The fourth matter he meant to attend to was the case of
some sectarians who had been separated from their families
and exiled to the Caucasus because they read and discussed
the Gospels. It was not so much to them as to himself he
had promised to do all he could to clear up this affair.
Since his last visit to Maslennikoff, and especially since he
had been in the country, Nekhludoff had not exactly formed
a resolution, but felt with his whole nature a loathing for
that society in which he had lived till then, that society
which so carefully hides the sufferings of millions in order to
assure ease and pleasure to a small number of people, that
the people belonging to this society do not and cannot see
these sufferings, nor the cruelty and wickedness of their life.
Nekhludoff could no longer move in this society without
feeling ill at ease and reproaching himself. And yet all the
ties of relationship and friendship, and his own habits, were
drawing him back into this society. Besides, that which
alone interested him now, his desire to help Maslova and the
other sufferers, made it necessary to ask for help and ser-
vice from persons belonging to that societv, persons whom
he not only could not respect, but who often aroused in him
indignation and a feeling of contempt.
When he came to Petersburg and stopped at his aunt's—
his mother's sister, the Countess Tcharskv, wife of a former
minister—Nekhludoff at once found himself in the verv
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and, besides, his aunt hXl^^J,' ^^" *° ""^nd his au„,,
be extremely usefuTin al "Kes?ma«eTh '°"' '"" "'e".
tend to. "^"^ matters he meant to at-
said^e CoSn^t 'i'int?;lrna t".^"^^^ °^ — '« ''
him his coflfee immediatdt .il l^^ Tcharsky. as she gave
pour un HowarrHdplLV r m,n^lf """'• '7''^' ^^'^
prisons, setting things righ^ cnmmals, gomg the round of
" Wh "°* I 'J^'^^'" thought of it "
some rlr,, sto'r/cirec'ter^it^h"'^, ^^^^ ^^"^ •° "^
about it." ^ connected with it. Let us hear all
toKr '""' "" "^^ ""^"'^ '-'" about his relations
abouTit That^was'"vvhe''n"v„r' P°°^ "°"'" 'e'""? me
women. I believe , hi wisZi to ™"'^'"«^ """ '^ose old
(the Countess KateriL Ivil "\"^, >'°" '° "leir ward
Nekhludoff's auntf o "his Sher™L,^''' #'^^V^ despised
est encore folic ?" "'s lather side). So it's she. Elle
ti.~?n offeThel1s^^Sv^"S'l'' --S"ic, talka-
cded black moustache on her lb Shr h''«"'' ''^<' » de-
her a^nd^had even as a chiM i^en I'^l:,^^ '^^^i
bec^t' re [:t,;ot^n';?y1cT„S'- J a°Sh"'^- '^ ''''P "-•
tarrca°n'K^..^^'"- "•'^' ^' -' I tlT^Vd^Vt
marr^.i:5/lt'?'" ""' ' ''^^ '''^'O -"out your intention of
. kS J: TvinTviirSd "^^ tr ''°'=\"°' -■»'■ '^■'■
orows and drooping evebalk 1„ .fi ^^^^^^ "'* raised
denly her face changed and vShl'T ^'f '""="'■ Sud-
sa,d: "Well, she is wiser than o„ n "^ °' P^''"""= '^<^
fool And you would have Serried her?""' '"'' ^"^ "^ »
^ Most certainly."
• After her having been whr.t she was ? "
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" All the more, since I was the cause of it."
" Well, you are a simpleton," said his aunt, repressing a
smile, " a terrible simpleton ; but it is just because you are
such a terrible simpleton that I love you." She repeated
the word, evidently liking it, as it seemed to correctly con-
vey to her mind the idea of her nephew's moral state. " Do
you know What a lucky chance. Aline has a won-
derful home — the Magdalene Home. I went there once.
They are terribly disgusting. After that I had to pray con-
tinually. But Aline is devoted to it, body and soul, so we
shall place her there — yours, I mean."
" But she is condemned to Siberia. I have come on pur-
pose to appeal about it. This h one of my requests to you."
" Dear me, and where do you appeal to in this case ? "
" To the Senate."
" Ah, the Senate ! Yes, my dear Cousin Leo is in the
Senate, but he is in the heraldry department, and I don't
know aiw of the real ones. They are all some kind of Ger-
mans — Gay, Fay, Day — tout ralphahct, or else all sorts of
IvanofTs, Simenoflfs, Nikitines, or else Ivanenkos, Si-
monenkos, Nikitenkos, pour varier. Des gens de I'autre
monde. Well, it is all the same. I'll tell my husband, he
knows them. He knows all sorts of people. I'll tell him,
but you will have to explain, he never understands me.
Whatever I may say, he always maintains he does not un-
derstand it. C'est tin parti pris, every one understands but
only not he."
At this moment a footman with stockinged legs came in
with a note on a silver platter.
" There now, from Aline herself. You'll have a chance
of hearing Kiesewetter."
" Who is Kiesewetter? "
" Kiesewetter ? Come this evening, and you will find out
who he is. He speaks in such a way that the most hardened
criminals sink on their knees and weep and repent."
The Countess Katerina Ivanovna, however strange it
may seem, and however little it seemed in keeping with the
rest of her character, was a staunch adherent to that teach-
ing which holds that the essence of Christianity lies in the
belief in redemption. She went to meetings where this
teaching, then in fashion, was being preached, and as-
sembled the " faithful " in her own house. Though this
teaching repudiated all ceremonies, icons, and sacraments,
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repressing a
luse you are
she repeated
Drrectly con-
state. " Do
has a won-
there once,
to pray con-
soul, so we
ome on pur-
ests to you."
lis case ? "
eo is in the
and I don't
kind of Ger-
; all sorts of
nenkos, Si-
is de I'autre
husband, he
I'll tell him,
rstands me.
does not un-
erstands but
legs came in
tve a chance
will find out
ost hardened
»ent."
r strange it
»ing with the
o that teach-
ty lies in the
where this
led, and as-
rhoup-h this
sacraments,
289
Katerina Ivanovna had icon, m . ^ ^
the wall above her bed and ,h. ^'7 '.?T' ^"^ ^"e on
prescribed without noting any 'comSc^io''' ^'.^ ^^"^^^
There now • if vnnr lUn 1 ^""^racliction in that.
would be convened '' said^f/rf "' '°"^^ ^^^' him she
tO;night ; you will hea'^^^^^ g^"f f «• ^o stay at home
home. 2Vow yCmay go" fciT^' J^"^ ^^^ -"«t come
Vtdes votre sac" ^ ^^^^ ^''^ ^^ you want of me ?
" H^^u^f '' ^" *he fortress."
■in the fortress ? T
Baron Kriegsmuth' CVm f«1 ^°l ^ "°*^ ^°' *at to the
you know him he wll"*™'-'^ '"'»"'«• Oh but
"Ttlmr Yl"'' "^ >■- wanuhete?"™' ""''"■ "^ -
imprisoned the?e bZ lV.s"lmlT, T' ^-7 ^°» «^° -
on Knegsmuth but on Tcrerviinskv " ''"* ""' "'^P'"*'
band ; tetiK^tr™"st'„^y' ''%i ^"'"'e's hus-
^^^J gentille." ^^^ ^'" ^o it for me. Elle est
^^^l^^^'^l^^S^ZlrCJ'"''" -"> - ^prisoned
-i}Jn6T'£te'rZVturT''- ?^^ ^" ■<"- i' very
short-haired women NMsts then?' -"' ''P'"'^""
,; Why can you not bear them '" '*""°' ^^' ">«■"■"
" Th^y'dtd ^f'antl"'" '^'. "'■ M''^<^h ? "t
, " Never mind 'hey'^hP^f^ '" '' ™ ?e ,/t of March "
' •' ?^%o?c:SideSL-^^^^^^^^^^ '' "°
ness." '°"="'" 'hat Manette may take part in busi-
• Many advanced women .year tl,.: .. ■ ,
o,<i Sfe.^™-- -exander-ff l^T&tVtsT^o"^ March,
> J
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" Mariette? Mariette is Mariette, and these are goodness
knows what. Want to teach everybody."
'' Not to teach but simply to help the people."
" One knows whom to help and whom not to help with-
out them."
" But the peasants are in great need. I have just returned
from the country. Is it necessary that the peasants should
work to the very limits of their strength and never have
sufficient to eat while we are living in the greatest luxury ? "
said Nekhludoflf, involuntarily led on by his aunt's good
nature into telling her what he was in his thoughts.
" What do you want, then? That I should work and not
eat anything? "
" No, I do not wish you not to eat. I only wish that we
should all work and all eat." He could not help smiling as
he said it.
Again raising her brow and drooping her eyeballs his
aunt look at him curiously. " Mon cher vous finires mal,"
she said. <
Just then the general, and former minister. Countess
Tcharsky's husband, a tall, broad-shouldered man, came
mto the room.
"Ah, Dmitri, how d'you do?" he said, turning his
freshly-shaved cheek to Nekhludoflf to be kissed. " When
did you get here? " And he silently kissed his wife on the
forehead.
'-' Non il est impayable," the Countess said, turning to
her husband. " He wants me to go and wash clothes and
hve on potatoes. He is an awful fool, but all the same do
what he is going to ask of you. A terrible simpleton," she
added. " Have you heard ? Kamenskaya is in such despair
that they fear for her life," she said to her husband. " You
should go and call there."
II Yes ; it is dreadful," said her husband.
" Go along, then, and talk to him, I must write some
letters."
Hardly had Nekhludoflf stepped into the room next the
drawing-room than she called him back.
" Shall I write to Mariette, then? "
" Please, ma tantc."
" I shall leave a blank for what you want to say about the
short-haired one, and she will give her husband his orders,
and he1I do it. Do not think me wicked; they are all so
e goodness
» help with-
ist returned
ants should
never have
it luxury ? "
unt's good
Its.
)rk and not
ish that we
> smiling as
eyeballs his
nires mal,"
, Countess
man, came
urning his
d. "When
,vife on the
turning to
:lothes and
le same do
ileton," she
ich despair
nd. "You
ivrite some
n next the
/ about the
his orders,
are all so
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disgusting, your protegees, but je ne leur vcux pas de mal
bother them. Well, go, but be sure to stay at home This
debia^ kn^{/°" "^^ "°' resist c./a vans fera bcaucoup
JJJ. uT y°,"r poor niother and all of you were
always very backward in these things."
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AN AVERAGE STATESMAN.
Count Ivan Michaelovitch had been a minister, and
was a man of strong convictions. The convictions of Count
Ivan Michaelovitch consisted in the beHef that, just as it
was natural for a bird to feed on worms, to be clothed in
feathers and down, and to fly in the air, so it was natural
for him to feed on the choicest and most expensive food,
prepared by highly-paid cooks, to wear the most comfortable
and most expensive clothing, to drive with the best and
fastest horses, and that, therefore, all these things should be
ready foUnd for him. Besides this, Count Ivan Michaelo-
vitch considered that the more money he could get out of
the treasury by all sorts of means, the more orders he had,
including different diamond insignia of something or other,
and the oftener he spoke to highly-placed individuals of both
sexes, so much the better it was.
All the rest Count Ivan Michaelovitch considered insig-
nificant and uninteresting beside these dogmas. All the rest
might be as it was, or just the reverse. Count Ivan
Michaelovitch lived and acted according to these lights for
40 years, and at the end of 40 years reached the position of
a Minister of State. The chief qualities that enabled Count
Ivan Michaelovitch to reach this position were his capacity
of understanding the meaning of documents and laws and
of drawing up, though clumsily, intelligible State papers,
and of spelling them correctly; secondly, his very stately
appearance, which enabled him, when necessary, to seem not
only extremely proud, but unapproachable and majestic, while
at other times he could be abjectly and almost passionately
servile; thirdly,the absence of any general principles or rules,
either of personal or administrative morality, which made it
possible for him either to agree or disagree with anybody
according to what was wanted at the time. When acting thus
his only ende.^.vour was to sitstsin the appearance of ^ood
.breeding and not to seem too plainly inconsistent. As for
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linister, and
ms of Count
t, just as it
e clothed in
was natural
ensive foo'd,
comfortable
lie best and
2fs should be
n Michaelo-
1 get out of
iers he had,
ng or other,
luals of both
dered insig-
All the rest
Count Ivan
;e lights for
! position of
abled Count
his capacity
id laws and
tate papers,
very stately
to seem not
ijestic, while
passionately
ties or rules,
lich made it
ith anybody
I acting thus
ICC of ^ood
nt. As for
his actions bemg moral or not. in themselves, or whether
^vlunrlt ^T^, *°rf"'W" ^^^ ^'^^'^'"^ "^'^^^'^ «•■ greatest
Tm nJ Jl 'T T'^? '"^f erent to him. When he became
a mmister, not only those dependent on him (and there were
^fn.? .""^"^ ""^ ^^f"'^ """'^ P^°P^^ connected with him, hut
many strangers and even he himself were convinced that he
W W ^T' ^^^t^f'"^"- But after some time had elapsed
and he had done nothmg and had nothing to show, and
when m accordance with the law of the struggle for existence
others, hke himself, who had learnt to writfand uncfeS
documents, stately and unprincipled officials, had displaced
him he turned out to be not only far from clever bu very
limited and badly educated. Though self-assured, his v ews
hardly reaching the level of those in the leading articles of
the Conservative papers, it became apparent that there was
nothing in him to distinguish him from those other badly-
^nn'^i'v^^'^if '^"^'■'"'■"o^ ^^^'^^^ ^^-^^ had pushed him out,
tw ul S'"/f ^^ '^'^ '*• ^"* ^^'' ^'^^ "°t «hake his conviction
that he had to receive a great deal of money out of the Treas-
ury every year, and new decorations for his dress clothes
This conviction was so firm that no one had the pluck to
refuse these things to him, and he received yearly, partly in
form of a pension, parth- . lary for being a member in
a Government instituti aid chairman of all sorts of com-
mittees and council., several tens of thousands of roubles
besides the right--h,ghly prized by him-of sewing all sorts
t^rZ.T'^" '? ^'' '^r^"^'"' ^"^ ^'■°"^^'-«' ^"d ribbons to
wear under and enamel stars to fix on to his dress coat In
consequence of this Count Ivan Michaelovitch had verv hieh
connections. aivci_yiu^u
Count Ivan Michaelovitch listened to Nekhludoff as he
was wont to listen to the reports of the permanent sccretarv
Hvi" hi^T''""?*' ^"'^' ^^V""^ h'^^d h'"^' '^^^ he would
give him two notes, one to the Senator WolfiF, of the ^ooeal
Department. '< All sorts of things are report'ed of hinf but
dans toils Ics cos cest tin homme tres comme il faut," he
Th." fK 's indebted to me, and will do all that is poosible."
Ihe other note Count Ivan Michaelovitch gave Nekhludoff
was to an influential member of the Petition Commktee
Ihe story of Theodosia Birukoff as tnld b.r M^khludofF
JKouSt'nf ^^""v ''^^ '""u'^i. ^^^" Nekhfudoff^aid that he-
thought of writing to the Empress, the Count replied that it
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certainly was a very touching story, and might, if occasion
presented itself, be told her, but he could not promise. Let
the petition be handed in in due form.
Should there be an opportunity, and if a petit cornite were
called on Thursday, he thought he would tell her the story.
As soon as Nekhludoff had received these two notes, and
a note to Mariette from his aunt, he at once set off to these
different places.
First he went to Mariette's. He had known her as a half-
grown girl, the daughter of an aristocratic but not wealthy
family, and had heard how she had married a man who was
making a career, whom Nekhludoff had heard badly spoken
of ; and, as usual, he felt it hard to ask a favour of a man
he did not esteem. In these cases he always felt an inner
dissension and dissatisfaction, and wavered whether to ask
the favour or not, and always resolved to ask. Besides feel-
ing himself in a false position among those to whose set he
no longer regarded himself as belonging, who yet regarded
him as belonging to them, he felt himself getting into the old
accustomed rut, and in spite of himself fell into the thought-
less and immoral tone that reigned in that circle. He felt
that from the first, with his aunt, he involuntarily fell into
a bantering tone while talking about serious matters.
Petersburg in general affected him with its usual physi-
cally invigorating and mentally dulling effect.
Everything so clean, so comfortably well-arranged and
the people so lenient in moral matters, that life seemed very
easy.
A fine, clean, and polite isvostchik drove him past fine,
clean, polite policemen, along the fine, clean, watered streets,
past fine, clean houses to the house in which Mariette lived.
At the front door stood a pair of English horses, with Eng-
lish harness, and an English-looking coachman on the box,
with the lower part of his face shaved, proudly holding a
^yhip. The doorkeeper, dressed in a wonderfully clean
livery, opened the door into the hall, where in still cleaner
livery with gold cords stood the footman with his splendid
whiskers well combed out, and the orderly on duty in a
brand-new uniform. " The general does not receive, and
the generaless does not receive either. She is just going to
drive out."
Nekhludoff took out Katerina Ivanovna's letter, and going
up to a table on which lay a visitors' book, began to write
if occasion
)mise. Let
omite were
• the storv.
notes, and
)ff to these
r as a half-
ot wealthy
n who was
dly spoken
• of a man
It an inner
her to ask
jsides feel-
lose set he
t regarded
nto the old
e thought-
I. He felt
!y fell into
:ers.
;ual physi-
inged and
emed very
past fine,
•ed streets,
iette lived,
with Eng-
n the box,
holding a
ully clean
ill cleaner
s splendid
duty in a
ceive, and
t going to
and going
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that he was sorry not to have been able to see any one ; when
the footman went up the staircase the doorkeeper went out
and shouted to the coachman, and the orderly stood up rigid
with his arms at his sides following with his eyes a litUe
s ight lady, who was coming down the stairs with rapid
steps not in keeping with all the grandeur
Mariette had a large hat on, with feathers, a black dress
an^d^_cape, and new black gloves. Her face was covered by
When she saw NekhludofT she lifted the veil off a verv
^''' 'Ah P ^'^^ ^'^^^- T^ ^^^^ ^^^'^^d inquiringly at him
Ah, Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhliidoff," she said.
"^ " A.^u'°^ pleasant voice. " I should have known "
^^ What ! you even remember my name? "
I should think so Why, I and my sisters have even
been in love with you," she said, in French. " But, dear me
how you have altered. Oh, what a pity I have to go out.'
Hut let us go up again," she said and stopped hesitatingly.
Then she looked at the clock. " No, I can't I am goinft^o
P^menskaya s to attend a mass for the dead. She is terdbly
" Who is this Kamenskaya? "
"Have you not heard? Her son was killed in a duel. He
fought Posen. He was the only son. Terrible! The mother
IS very much afflicted."
*' Yes. I have heard of it."
"No, I had Ijetter go, and you must come again, to-night
or to-morrow," she said, and went to the door with quick
light steps. ^ '
" LI ?l""°^ ''°"''' to-night," he said, going out after her ;
but I have a request to make you," and he looked at the
^^'r,?/u f ^^ ^}^^\T^^ drawing up to the front door.
What is this ? "
J'I-^'\'^ ^ ^^"^'' ^'■°"' ^""^ t° yo"'" said Nekhludoff,
handing her a narrow envelope, with a large crest. " You'll
find all about it in there."
inflnL^."'"'^-.?''""^ u ' Katerina Ivanovna thinks I have some
influence with my husband in business matters. She is mis-
taken. I can do nothing and do not like to interfere But
WW •'^;t ,^°- ^ am willing to be false to my principle.'
What IS this business about?" she said, searching in vain
for her pocket with her little black gloved hand
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" There is a girl imprisoned in the fortress, and she is ill
and innocent."
" What is her name ? "
" Lydia Shoiistova. It's in the note."
" All right; I'll see what I can do," she said, and lightly
jumped into her little, softly upholstered, open carriage, its
brightly-varnished splash-guards glistening in the sunshine,
and opened her parasol. The footman got on the box and
gave the coachman a sign. The carriage moved, but at that
moment she touched the coachman with her parasol and the
slim-legged beauties, the bay mares, stopped, bending their
beautiful necks and stepping from foot to foot.
"But you must come, only, please, without interested
motives," and she looked at him with a smile, the force of
which she well knew, and, as if the performance over and she
were drawing the curtain, she dropped the veil over her
face again. " All right," and she again touched the coach-
man.
Nekhludoff raised his hat, and the well-bred bays, slightly
snorting, set off, their shoes clattering on the pavement, and
the carriage rolled quickly and smoothly on its new rubber
tyres, giving a jump only now and then over some uneven-
ness of the road.
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and lightly
;arriage, its
le sunshine,
he box and
but at that
Lsol and the
nding their
: interested
he force of
ver and she
il over her
the coach-
lys, slightly
ement, and
new rubber
ne uneven-
CHAPTER XVI.
AN UP-TO-DATE SENATOR.
When NekhludofT remembered the smiles that had
passed between him and Mariette, he shook his head.
You have hardly time to turn round before you are
agam drawn into this life," he thought, feeling that discord
and those doubts which the necessity to curry favour from
people he did not esteem caused.
After considering where to go first, so as not to have to
retrace his steps, Nekhludoff set off for the Senate. There
he was sh-v^n into the office where he found a great many
very poh- :-l very clean officials in the midst of a magnifi-
cent apfc>- r..:it. Maslova's petition was received and handed
on to that Wolf, to whom Nekhludoff had a letter from his
uncle, to be examined and reported on.
J' There will be a meeting of the Senate this week," the
official said to Nekhludoff, " but Maslova's case will hardlv
come before that meeting."
" It might come before the meeting on Wednesday bv
special request," one of the officials remarked.
During the time Nekhludoff waited in the office, while
some information was being taken, he heard that the con-
versation in the Senate was all about the duel, and he heard
a detailed account of how a young man, Kaminski, had been
killed. It was here he first heard all the facts of the case
which was exciting the interest of all Petersburg. The story
was this: Some officers were eating oysters and, as usual,
drinking very much, when one of them said something ill-
natured about the regiment to which Kaminski belonged
and Kaminski called him a liar. The other hit Kaminski
ihe next day they fought. Kaminski was wounded in the
stomach and died two hours later. The murderer and the
seconds were arrested, but it was said that though they were
arrested and in the guardhouse they would be set free in
a fortnight.
From the Senate Nekhludoff drove to see an influential
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31; a^'olendfn't^" ^Tf'^.^' Baron Vorobioff, who
uvea in a splendid house belong ne to the Crown Thp
doorkeeper told Nekhludoff in alevfre tone thatThe Balon
w'^-lh v°^^; ?''" 'i!"P^ °" his reception days ; hat he was
would llT'^ the Emperor to-day, and Ihe next Say h?
tmd is t?h?h.'^'^'''L" ''P°''\ Nekhludoff left^is
Senator Wolf wI^f\T'^^^ ?".^ ^^"^ °" *« see the
senator vvolf. Wolf had just had h s lunch and was as
usual helping digestion by smoking a cigar and pacing
Vasmev1tTwolf"°"' -^f.^ekhluiff ca^'Jin. vS 1^"?
devation hP W^ H f ^"^^'*^ ^"'■y ^'S^^y' ^"d f^om that
elevation he looked down at everybody else He conlH nnJ
but esteem this quality of his very h^ly!" because h wa
thanks to It alone that he had made a brilliant career The
very career he desired, i.e., by marriage he obtained a for-
tune which brought him in 18,000 roubles a year and bv his
own exertions the post of a senator. He considered himsef
not only un homme tres comme il faut, butX a maTof
knightly honour. By honour he understood no^ acSnJ
secret bribes from private persons. But he did not cons def
It dishonest to beg money for payment of fares and aU sorts
of travelling expenses from the Crown, and to do anything
the Government might require of him in return To ruin
hundreds of innocent people, to cause them to be"mprisoned
to be exiled because of their love for their peopk and the
^'!?/""f°P 'f ''■/"'t^"' ^' h^ h^^ done in one^of the govern^
men s of Poland when he was governor there He did ^nt
consider it dishonourable, but even thought it a nSle man?v
and pa riotic action. Nor did he consider it dishonest S rob
his wife and sister-in-law, as he had done, but thought H
sisred'oTI-s^t'"'"^'"? ^'^ ^^^""y '''^'- ^'^ i^Xcon-
sisted of his common-place wife, his sister-in-law whose
fortune he had appropriated by selling her estate andVutthig
the money to his account, and his meek, frightened na"n
S^hf/ t"" ""'^ ^ 'r^'y' ^^^'•y J^f^ from which^she
had lately begun to look for relaxation in evangelicism
Snf "wolf? '' ^'rl' f"^ '''' Countesr^S
ivanovna \\olf s son, who had grown a beard at the ao-e
of 15, and had at that age begun to drink and lead a depraved
hfe, which he continued to do till the age of 20. vvhen he
Indi "T^ out by his father because he never finished hi^
studies, moved in a low set and made debts which committed
'
ffll: , ! !
Vorobioff, who
Crown. The
that the Baron
^s; that he was
he next day he
iludoflf left his
on to see the
h, and was as
ir and pacing
e in. Vladimir
tres comme il
ind from that
He could not
)ecause it was
mt career, the
btained a for-
;ar, and by his
idered himself
also a man of
not accepting
i not consider
3 and all sorts
) do anything
irn. To ruin
)e imprisoned,
sople and the
)f the govern-
He did not
noble, manly
ihonest to rob
Lit thought it
i family con-
i-law, whose
e and putting
htened, plain
n which she
Jvangelicism,
ess Katerina
d at the age
d a depraved
20, when he
finished his
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the father. The father had once paid a debt of 2=;o roubles
!Zu !?",' ^^T ^"°^^^'- °^ 600 roubles, but warned fhe son
that he did It for the last time, and that if the son did no?
reform he would be turned out of the house and aH iurthTr
intercourse between him and his family would be put a on
rnnh?^ ' '"'I "^'^."^f ''^''''^' ^"t "^^^^ a debt of a^t ousand
roubles, and took the liberty of telling his father hat Ife
at home was a torment anyhow. Then Wdf dec ared t-
vinced hat he had arranged his family life n he be \ wav"
„„ rTT '^"^ "• 1"'' ^"'^ «^''="s«^ rae if I continue to walk
up and down, w,th your permission," he said outt n,^ h U
nfhed'studr ''^'' '"""^' ™'' ^"'"^"y fur-
v<.r7f!7^P!'*f '' '° "!^>'^ >'°«'' acquaintance and of course
wishef" he sil tr'^M""', C°""' I™" Micl,tlovitch
wisnes, ne said, blowing the fragrant blue smnWe nut r^(
tt rh"" '"' """'"^ ■"= °^" --f"""- - nt .o°lop
l.nn7"'' ^-A^T'll" """^ °^ *^^ fi^st Steamers from Nijni I
knovy, said Wolf, with his patronising smile alwavs know
What IS the prisoner's name ? "
Maslova."
Wolf went up to the table and looked at a Paner Hiaf 1,,,
on a p,ece of cardboard among other buslnesfrapef "^
We yhall Tear the'^^^''" ^1 T^^^ ^ ^^" ^^'^ th^ others,
vve snail hear the case on Wednesday."
may I telegraph to the advocate?
not
1 he advocate! What's that for? But if
you like, why
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doff, but I think the case will show that the sentence was
passed owing to a misunderstanding."
" Yes yes; it may be so, but the Senate cannot decide the
ot his cigar. The Senate only considers the exactness
of the application of the laws and their right interpretation "
^^ Mit this seems to me to be an exceptional case."
1 know, I kMiow ! All cases are exceptional. We shall
bn.?'/K"*^- P^V^ ^"•" ^^'^ ^^h was still holding on
but had began breaking, and was in danger of falling
Do you often come to Petersburg? " said Wolf holding
his cigar so that the ash should not fall. But the ash beS
whkh it'fe"' ^''' '"^'""^ ^^"'"^ '' '' t^^ ashpan,TntS
rtu t A splendid young man. The only son. Espe-
cially the mother's position," he went on, repeating almost
word for word what every one in Petersburg was at tha
time saying about Kaminski. Wolf spoke a lUtle about he
Countess Ivaterina Ivanovna and her enthus asm for h'
new religious teaching, which he neither a proved nor dis-
approved of, but which was evidently neeoless to h^ who
irfu^'T'Jf.'' f ""''*' ^"^ the" rang the bell.
NekhludoflF bowed.
" }\ it, is convenient, come and dine on Wednesday and
It was late, and Nekhludoff rec..med to his aunt's.
" said Nekhlii-
2 sentence was
inot decide the
icJy at the ash
the exactness
titerpretation."
case."
lal. We shall
11 holding on,
)f falling.
Wolf, holding
the ash began
i ashpan, into
to Kaminski,"
/ son. Espe-
eating almost
?• was at that
ttle about the
iasm for the
oved nor dis-
5 to him who
dnesday, and
If, extending
aunt's.
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CHAPTER XVII
COUNTESS KATERINA IVANOVNa's DINNER PARTY.
Countess Katerina Ivanovna's dinner hour was h;,lf
NekhlSlVn^t'^r ^'' '''''' - "new mal'r'that
iNCKn udott had not yet seen anvwhere. After thev harf
Xssef WhI . ^ ^^"^'^^ P^^*^^ ^"^ of filling their
g asses When one course was finished, the Countess Dressed
he button of an electric bell fitted to th; table and the waTters
stepped m noiselessly and quickly carried awpv th! ^fl
changed the plates, and brought in the next cou?l Th 5'''
ner was yery reO.ed, the wines ver S A FreJ ^t^
Ts'srants' Ver'et ^"-"^'- "^'^^ ''^^''^"^' ^ Uyo white-S
CoTntess thih- son r? ''T'^'^' ^' ^^""er, the Count and
v^ounress, tneir son (a surly officer n the Guards who =Pt
eaSer'"antr C '^^ '''^''1' ^-><hIudoff, a Fren h'lady
rom the countr^ "t'I ' '^^ '1'^"^^' ^'^^° ^^^ ^^"^e u^
the dn?l W ^- • ^'^' ^°°' ^^'^ conyersation was about
her and as ,t was also known that the Empemr did normean
f irSorm'^.n" ''' '^r'^T-' ^^^^° ^ '^^"ded rhri onour
it^apprTar^' '''' ''' '''' thoughtlessneL! e^p^S
I c'h J W^n?5 '^'""''' ,^"^ ^^" unobjectionable young men
" I knov ti.? "^ ^ """°' understand," said the Count.
1 knovy that you never can understand what I say " fhp
"EvervLl'^'"',""^ ^^"^"^ t° Nekhludoff she add '
Everybody understands except my husband!' I say I am
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ZJ^ ^'' *'^ "^9,}^'^'' ^"^ I ^'o not wish Jiim to be con-
tented, having killed a man." Then her son, who had been
silent up to then, took the murderer's part, and rudely at-
acked his mother, arguing that an officer ciuld not bihave
n any other way, because his fellow-officers would con-
ll tJneSToThlVT ''".°"^ "'-^ ^^^■--^- Nekhludoff
listened to the conversation without joining in Havinp
alree witf vounrr^f'' 'l ^"'^"^°^^' ^^^^ "^^ ^"-t
fjlfl 'J ""? Tcharsky's arguments, and at the same
that of'aTir; ^'^P <=«"t^a«tingnhe fate of the offi er wUh
prison and In ^°""§^ :;°"vi^t whom he had seen in the
prison, and who was condemned to the mines for havintr
killed another in a fight. Both haa turned murderers throueg
drunkenness The peasant had killed a man in a moment ?f
irritation, and he was parted from his wife and famUy had
chains on his legs, and his head shaved, and wasSJ^ to
hard labour in Siberia, while the officer ias sitdngfn a fine
room in the guardhouse, eating a good dinner. Sing goo"d
wine and reading books, and would be set free in a dav or
two to ive as he had done before, having only become r^o?e
interesting by the affair. Nekhludoff said wh^at heTad been
i^r"ee w^i'th"h1m hT '/? T\: ^^^^^'"^ Ivanovna,'seemed to
agree with him, but at last .he became silent as the rest had
iT'to".^ Nekhludoff felt that he had committed someh^g
the lar.rh;7'°^i;'t^'i I" "^^''^'^^^S, soon after dinner^
the large hall, with high-backed carved chairs arranged in
rows as for a meeting, and an armchair next to a little table
with a bottle of water for the speaker, began to fill w th peo^^^
pie come to hear the foreigner, Kiesewetter^ p each ^El-
egant equipages stopped at the front entrance. In the hall
sa richly-dressed ladies in silks and velvets and lace wi?
false hair and false busts and drawn-in waists, and am^ng
Zn^S'Z'' ""'^^'^^ "i"^ '"'"^"^ ^''''' '-'^ ^bout five per^
keeoe? a f! .r"""" 1^''' '-'-u '^^° "^^n-servants, a shop-
keeper, a f. jtman, and a coachman. Kiesewetter a thick-
set, grisly man, spoke English, and a thin young g'Vl? with a
ptnce-nec, translated it into Russian promptly a?d weir He
was saying that our sins were so great, the punishment for
them so great and so unavoidable, that it was impoSe to
live anticipating such punishment. " Beloved bTheJs and
sisters, let us for a moment consider what we are doing how
we are living, how we have offended a-ainst the alH- r
Lord, and how we make Christ" suffer%Td we calJ^^^
n to be con-
vho had been
ticl rudely at-
d not behave
would con-
Nekhludoff
in. Having
h he did not
at the same
e officer with
1 seen in the
> for having
rers through
a moment of
family, had
^as going to
ing in a fine
•inking good
in a day or
ecome more
he had been
a, seemed to
the rest had
1 something
fter dinner,
arranged in
I little table,
II with peo-
reach. El-
In the hall
I lace, with
and among
ut five per-
ts, a shop-
ir, a thick-
?irl, with a
I well. He
shment for
possible to
others and
ioing, how
all-lovliig
:annot but
X
u
X
a
o
o
09
X
unde
escaj
fate
his t:
How
Thel
H(
cheel-
gOtt(
he fe
and t
still 1
Katei
leanir
ing.
eigne
pole c
his w
ovna
dress(
hands
Th(
real-l(
gan a:
"Y
way.
of Go
suffer
said, :
who h
manki
Net
and fr
tiptoe,
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understand that there is no forgiveness possible for us no
escape possible, that we are all doomed to perish. A terrible
fate awaits us— everlasting torment," he said, with tears in
his trembling voice. " Oh, how can we be saved, brothers >
How can we be saved from this terrible, unquenchable fire ?
Ine house is in flames; there is no escape."
He was silent for a while, and real tears flowed down his
cheeks. It was for about eight years that each time when he
got to this part of his speech, which he himself liked so well
he felt a choking in his throat and an irritation in his nosei
and the tears came in his eyes, and these tears touched him'
still more Sobs were heard in the room. The Countess
Katerina Ivanovna sat with her elbows on an inlaid table
leaning her head on her hands, and her shoulders were shak-
ing. The coachman looked with fear and surprise at the for-
eigner feeling as if he was about to run him down with the
jjole of his carriage and the foreigner would not move out of
his way. All sat in positions similar to that Katerina Ivan-
ovna had assumed. Wolf's daughter, a thin, fashionably-
dressed girl, very like her father, knelt with her face in her
hands.
The orator suddenly uncovered his face, and smiled a very
real-looking smile, such as actors express joy with, and be-
gan again with a sweet, gentle voice :
" Yet there is a way to be saved. Here it is— a joyful easv
^/^" J salvation is the blood shed for us by the onl'y son
of God, who gave himself up to torments for our sake His
sufferings, His blood, will save us. Brothers and sisters " he
said, again with tears in his voice, " let us praise the Lord
who has given His only begotten son for the redemption of
mankind. His holy blood. ..."
Nekhludoff felt so deeply disgusted that he rose silently
and frowning and keeping back a groan of shame, he left on
tiptoe, and went to his room.
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OFFICIALDOM.
in^lnc^'' Y ^^^^t'^^Joff finished dressing the next morn-
W I ,% ''^^l^^.T^ *" S:o down, the footman brought
come to St. Petersburg on busmess of his own, and was going
I?. V/vf' f"* '1'f;! Maslova's case was examined in the Sen-
c ossed h nTnn 1 ' '°°"- ^^^'.^'^'^'^^ ^^nt by Nekhludoff
crossed him on the way. Having found out from Nekhlu-
w.lT k" ""^'f u ^' ^T¥ *° '^^ ^^^^'•^J' a"d whi h senators
were to be present, he smiled. " Exactly, all the three types of
«^"^tc>rs/' he said. " Wolf is a Petersburg official Skovo-
rodnikoff ,s a theoretical, and Bay a prac^cal, lawyer and
therefore the most alive of them' all," said the advocate
tio?CommUt::>^ °' '""^- ^^"' ^"^ '^^ ^^^^ ^^^ P^^^"
get a^ij^enrwlt^ht^;^^^^^^^^^^^ ^-^^^- ^ ^'^ -^
Do you know why he is Baron VorobiofT? " said the ad-
vocate, noticing the slightly ironical stress that Nekhludoff
put on this foreign title, followed by so very Russian a sur
ndme.
^rJJl^lhZ^'j^l^^Tl'^^ Emperor Paul rewarded the
grandfather— I think he was one of the Court footmen— by
giving him this title. He managed to please him in some
way, so he made him a baron. ' It's my wish, so don't gain-
?.r}li '^?? '? ^^T' ^ ^«^^" VorobioflF, and very p?oud
of the title. He is a dreadful old humbug " ^
;; Well, I'm going to see him," said Nekhludoff.
^_^^ Ihats good; we can go together. I shall give you a
As they were going to start, a footman met Nekhludoff in
the ante-room, and handed him a note from Mariette :
Pour yous faire plaisir, j'ai agi tout d fait contre mcs trincH>es
^t jav intercede at^prh de man mart pour votre protUc Ilsc
trouye que cettc personne peut etre rclaxee immediatement Mot
man a Sent nu rni,i}}in„ria'it ^^---^ -i-,-,- r,^- j- r
attends. ' " ""^"' a'smierestedly. Je vous
M.
next morn-
lan brought
dvocate had
d was going
in the Sen-
Nekhludoff
)m Nekhlu-
ich senators
ree types of
ial ; Skovo-
awyer, and
; advocate,
ut the Peti-
I could not
;aid the ad-
Nekhludoff
isian a sur-
'arded the
otmen — by
m in some
don't gain-
very proud
3:ive you a
chludoff in
tte:
es principes
tegee. II sc
nent. Moit
y. Jc Z'OUS
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thi?not dreadful >'f ^^^^^<^^off to the advocate. <' Is
ins not dreadful? A woman whom they are keeointr in
fntn'.Z.'°"'^r"^r' ^°'" ^^^^" '"^"ths turns out To b^e fuite
mnocent and only a w'ord was needed to get her reloa ed ''
getti?g^L1z^rantrd^^■ ^"^^^°^^' ^- ^-^ -"-^^^ ^n
Yes, but this success grieves me. lust think whnf »,„cf
be gomg on there. Why1.ave they bj'en keeping h^r >"'"''
T =1,^1 • ' ^^'^ ""^.^ ^"^ ^°°^ *oo deeply into it. Well "then
left d 1 f "' ^^" 1 "2' '^ ^ '"^^•" «^'S the advocate as iS
wmcn tne iJaron lived. The B^ -jn was at home A votino-
official in uniform, with a long, thin neck a muc^h proS
ng Adam s apple, and an extremely light wa k Tnd two
ladies were in the first room ^ ' *^°
.n!!i^°"i "?"'^' P^^ase? " the young man with the Adam's
apple asked, stepping with extreme lightness and tr^ce
^^x?'fi!:??Jl''^ ^^^'^^ to Nekhludoff. ^ ^'^"
Nekhludoflf gave his name.
The Baron was just mentioning you." said the vonncr
mourning WUhh'u^"^<:^ '^"Pl"^ '^''y Pressed in
.A :^:-^. s^f Scet :?t rHi^i,-
"Come in, please," said the young man to Npkhlnri^ff
thick-set man of medium heigS w^'shoThal t\ ^o"ck!
coat who was sitting in an armchair opposite a lar^e wr^
1 he kindly rosy red face, striking by its contrast with
N^\htd':«t^TS!n™r '--'• --;^-:?s
ater on as an officer. Sit down ,nH ,,V^" .tL". j^'^f
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on, go on. I quite understand. It is certainly very touch-
ing. And have you handed in the petition ? "
" I have got the petition ready/* Nekhludoff said, getting
It out of his pocket ; " but I thought of speaking to vou first
in hopes that the case would then get special attention paid
to it."
" You have done very well. I shall certainly report it
myself," said the Baron, unsuccessfully trying to put an
expression of pity on his merry face. " Very touching ! It
is clear she was but a child; the husband treated her
roughly, this repelled her, but as time went on they fell in
love with each other. Yes, I will report the case." '
" Count Ivan Michaelovitch was also going to speak
about it."
Nekhludoff had hardly got these words out when the
Baron's face changed.
" You had better hand in the petition into the office, after
all, and I shall do what I can," he said.
At thisi moment the young official again entered the
room, evidently showing off his elegant manner of walking.
"^ That lady is asking if she may say a few words more."
" Well, ask her in. Ah, mon cher, how many tears we
have to see shed ! If only we could dry them all. One does
all that lies within one's power."
The lady entered.
" I forgot to ask you that he should not be allowed to
give up the daughter, because he is ready . . ."
" But I have already told you that I should do all I
can."
" Baron, for the love of God ! You will save the mother? "
She seized his hand, and began kissing it.
" Everything shall be done."
When the lady went out NekhludoflF also began to take
I^ave.
" We shall do what we c in. I shall speak about it at the
Ministry of Justice, and when we get their answer we shall
do what we can."
NekhliidofT left the study, and went into the office again.
Just as in the Senate office, he saw, in a splendid apartment,
a number of very elegant officials, clean, polite, severely
correct and distinguished in dress and in speech.
'■' How many there are of them ; how very many and how
well fed thev all look! And what clean shirts and hands
' very touch-
said, getting
g to you first
ttention paid
tily report it
g to put an
:ouching! It
treated her
1 thev fell in
ise."'
g to speak
It when the
; office, after
entered the
• of walking.
>rds more."
ny tears we
!. One does
; allowed to
Id do all I
e mother?"
gan to take
out it at the
i^er we shall
Dffice again.
apartment,
te, severely
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CHAPTER XIX.
AN OLD GENERAL OF REPUTE.
The man on whom depended the easing of the fate of the
Petersburg prisoners was an old General of repute— a
baron of German descent, who, as it was said of him, had
outlived his wits. He had received a profusion of orders,
but only wore one of them, the Order of the White Cross.
He had received this order, which he greatly valued, while
serving in the Caucasus, because a number of Russian peas-
ants, with their hair cropped, and dressed in uniform and
armed with guns and bayonets, had killed at his command
more than a thousand men who were defending their liberty,
their homes, and their families. Later on he served in Poland,'
and there also made Russian peasants commit many dif-
ferent crimes, and got more orders and decorations for his
uniform. Then he served somewhere else, and now that he
was a weak, old man he had this position, which insured
him a good house, an income and respect. He strictly ob-
served all the regulations which were prescribed " from
above," and was very zealous in the fulfilment of these
regulations, to which he ascribed a special importance, con-
sidering that everything else in the world might be changed
except the regulations prescribed " from above." His duty
was to keep political prisoners, men and women, in solitary
confinement in such a way that half of them perished in u.
years' time, some going out of their minds, some dying of
consumption, some committing suicide by starving them-
selves to death, cutting their veins with bits of glass, hang-
ing, or burning t' f^mselves to death.
The old General was not ignorant of this ; it all happened
within his knowledge ; but these cases no more touched his
conscience than accidents brought on by thunderstorms,
floods, etc. These cases occurred as a consequence of the
fulfilment of regulations prescribed " from above " bv His
Imperial Majesty. These regulations had to be carried out
without fail, and therefore it was absolutely useless to think
le fate of the
f repute — a
of him, had
n of orders,
Vhite Cross,
alued, while
ussian peas-
jniform and
is command
their liberty,
d in Poland,
L many dif-
tions for his
now that he
lich insured
strictly o. -•
ibed " from
nt of these
rtance, con-
be changed
" His duty
I, in solitary
rished in to
ne dying of
•ving them-
3flass, hang-
11 happened
touched his
nderstorms,
ence of the
re " by His
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5Mttre"S"^i„lu ?o h'"'!'"?"'- , "^."^ »"> General
Of his position, and asked the pr sonerf if ?h^. i^ ^ "^"^'^^
quests to make. The prisoner. hfri^oU .7 ^^"^ ^""^ ''^-
listened to them axTJl U.- ^ all sorts of requests He
fulfilled any of thirr?aue.rr"'''^^'? '^^^"^^' ^"^ "^ver
accord with tlJrelJ^lT' ^^""^''^^ ^^^^ ^'^^^ ^11 in dis-
to the c^W General^s hore%/"''^^ Nekhludoff drove up
the belfry clock chimed "r f'^"^ f°^? ''^ ^^'^ bells on
struck tw'o. The ovmd of?i-^ I" t^^"^'" ""^ '^^"
Nekhludoff's m nd what he L 1 "^'T' ^i'^"^'^* ^^^^ to
Decembrists* about the wL ?h '^"^ '" *'^^ "°*^« °^ the
every hour re4hoes in tK f T^.^^ '""^^^ '"epeated
j.^^ ur eclioes in the hearts of those imprisoned for
<^r^^'^,l':!L^^^^^ ^'"-^ - his darkened
of pape? with^the a" 1 of" you^^' l^t^fhe l^'T 'V ^''^^
his subordinates The th J ^i •' ^^^ brother of one of
were pressed at'ain.f. I. ' ^^f ,J<' ^oist fingers of the artist
of the dd GenefaT and th\ZnH^'^-'"^ .stilT-jointed fingers
moving together wifhfhl ""^^ -"^'"^^ ^" ^his manner were
letters^ofTeXSt wriSn^n ?t" Thf^" ^'^^ '^^ ^" '^'
ing the questions put by X General as to hn ''' '7' "^,^^^^-
ognise each other after dea^h ^ '°"'' ^'" ^^<=-
fooYmt", fhtsoufof S S'i^ "^' '^ ^" -^-^^ -ting as
the saucer Aesou/ofToan of r^\^Pf ^ing by the aid of
by letter the words "tU S .^'"^ ^^'^ ^^'"^^^^ ^Pelt letter
words had^brentntte^^or wTen'tt tdlk '"^ ^^^^^
the saucer had stoooed fir«t r^n a 1 orderly came m
kindf^cla^ng with the oDil?"?'?;' "^ '•°'"="""ff °f '^^
*en«,et.e^3Ho!;,XTT.-tK^^^^^^^^^
1 fie i_Jer'emhr(o*r. v-^--
an end to absolutism in R^sTia^T'Thf '."""''I:' ^^' ^^"^d' ^ P"t
Nicholas the First. ^* ^he time of the accession of
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each other by light emanating from their astral bodies. The
General, with his bushy grey eyebrows gravely contracted,
sat gazing at the hands on the saucer, and, imagining that it
was moving of its own accord, kept pulling the saucer
towards zv. The pale-faced young artist, with his thin hair
combed back behind his ears, was looking with his lifeless
blue eyes into a dark corner of the drawing-room, nervously
moving his lips and pulling the saucer towards /.
The General made a wry face at the interruption, but after
a moment's pai se he took the card, put on his pince-nca, and,
uttering a groan, rose, in spite of the pain in his back, to his
full height, rubbing his numb fingers.
" Ask him into the study."
" With your excellency's permission I will finish it alone,"
said the artist, rising. " I feel the presence."
_ " All right, finish alone," the General said, severely and de-
cidedly, and stepped quickly, with big, firm, and measured
strides, into his study.
" Very pleased to see you," said the General to Nekhlu-
dofif, uttpring the friendly words in a gruff tone, and point-
ing to an armchair by the side of the writing-table, " Have
you been in Petersburg long? "
Nckhludoff replied that he had only lately arrived.
" Is the Princess, your mother, well ? "
" My mother is dead."
" Forgive me ; I am very sorry. My son told me he had
met you."
The General's son was making the same kind of career for
himself that the father had done, and, having passed the Mil-
itary Academy, was now serving in the Inquiry Office, and
was very proud of his duties there. His occupation was the
management of Government spies.
" Why, I served with your father. We were friends —
comrades. And you ; are vou also in the Service ? "
" No, I am not."
The General bent his head disapprovingly.
" I have a request to make, General."
" Ve — ery pleased. In what way can I be of service to
you?"
" If my request is out of place pray pardon me. But I am
obliged to make it."
"What is it?"
" There is a certain Gourkevitch imprisoned in the fort-
bodies. The
y contracted,
gining that it
J the saucer
his thin hair
:h his Hfeless
tm, nervously
ion, but after
incc-nez, and,
s back, to his
lish it alone,"
erely and de-
nd measured
1 to Nekhlu-
e, and point-
ible. "Have
rived.
d me he had
of career for
ssed the Mil-
y Office, and
ition was the
ire friends —
af service to
e. But I am
in the fort-
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ress; his mother asks for an interview wJtii v,;r« «- . i
to be allowed to send him some b^k"" "'"' ■"■"' "' *' '^^^'
tinn f, m"S^' ?K""=<' "^'"'" satisfaction nor dissa ifac-
an7„:rt°hfnkf„g°af ^l!'"- "' "^^ '"^^'^ '^=""» '"""^".v
have wha? is permit?ell ' ''' "' '^'" " '*'^'^- ^"'i '"ey ma?
" Don't'' vom\T"" '•"'"""''= books I he wishes to study "
■ knovv tSm " *'•" ^°"'P''""»?." said the General. " We
ver/well'Te^t he^ '°h'e%o«taue7^'?.' x'r T *V
courses for dinner— anfl„„.rtT ^^'^^ ^'''"^ *ree
soles ; and on Sundays ,hey%t a tZ^f-^'^^'u'" fi''
' nl'aZf/^^'^'f ^^ ^^' - -™-'^y oo •' ''°''
fa^lttpt ?n^m^rIf:i*^K^:r^^^^^^^ J-
g.ve„ before of the prisoners being exac^;°g°and ungratef!?,"
said the old General, with tte dim hk'ness oTa'smHe '^
r-te-srte--aJii
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quite tranq'iil. At first they seem restless, but later on they
even grow fat and become very quiet." Thus spoke the Gen-
eral, never suspecting tive terrible meaning of his ^vord^;.
Nekhludoff listened to the hoarse old voice, looi .>d zi the
stiff limbs, the swollen e>elids under the grey bro\>s, at he
old, clean-shaved, flabby jaw, supported by she collar of the
military uniform, at the white cross that thi>^ man ;vas so
proud of, chiefly because he had gat;; :d it by exceptionally
cruel and extensive slaught^^ and kru-v that it was useless
to reply to the old man or to explain the meaning of his own
words to him,
^ Ke made another effort, and asked aboui ibe prisoner
Shoustova, for whose release, as he had been iiH,)rme<:i that
morning, ; nk rs were given.
" Shousu- /^--.-'houstov.i? I cannot remember all their
names, there ure ,:0 many of them," he said, as if reproach-
ing them beca-j. . there v\ ere so many. He rang, p.nd ordered
the secrcrary !c. be called. While waiting for tlie latter, he
began persuading xVekhltidoff to serve, saving that " honest
noblemen," counting himself among the number, were par-
ticularly needed by the Tsar and— the country," he added
evidently only to round off his sentence. " I am old, yet I
am serving still, as well as my strength allows."
The secretary, a dry, emaciated man, with restless, intelli-
gent eyes, came in and reported that Shoustova was impris-
oned in some queer, fortified place, and that he had received
no orders concerning her.
" When we get the order we shall let her out the same day.
We do not keep them ; we do not value their visits much,"
said the General, with another attempt at a playful smile
which only distorted his old face. '
Nekhludoff rose, trying to keep from expressing the mixed
feelings of repugnance and pity which he felt towards this
terrible old man. The old man on his part considered that he
should not be too severe on the thoughtless and evidently
misguided son of his old comrade, and should not leave him
without advice.
" Good-bye, my dear fellow ; do not take it amiss. It is
my affection that makes me say it. Do not keep company
with such people as we have at our place here. T* . are no
innocent ones among them. All these people ari .-i^jt im-
moral. We know t!-m," he said, in a tone :^at - , mitted no
ery soon ^et
ater on ihey
Qk'c the, (Tcn-
s wotds.
DoijMl ?;.i the
ro\iS, at ihe
collar of the
man v/as so
xceptionally
was useless
1^ of his own
he prisoner
s)rme(:i rhat
»er all their
if reproach-
nnd ordered
le latter, he
lat " honest
" were par-
" he added,
n old, yet I
less, intelli-
was impris-
ad received
e same day.
sits much,"
lyful smile,
? the mixed
awards this
2red that he
d evidently
t leave him
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adml himsd to beTofa MbeZro r "°' ''' "f'' '^='^'= '°
of a good life, buPa sconmlr. , 'T!"^ oJ" «he last days
in hifoM age'to serhTsTotci^nc" ""' '"' ^"" ^™""-<i
iiest of all, go and serve," he continued • " ti,^ t
needs honest men-and the country "he added '' W u'
supposing- I and tht- r.fV.o^<, v^"mi>, ne added. Well,
doing? WhowouldLMt? H "'""^ '° T^^' ^^ >'°" ^'-e
the order of Xn." and veV "^ T ^''' 5"^^"^ ^^"'^ ^^ith
ment " ^ ' "^ ^^^ "°^ '''''^'"S^ to help the Govern-
the answer given^ the "oul of Joan of Ar/ "tT? """"I
put on his «;««.„(>« and read " w; 1 1 b The General
light emana^ng fronf "heirattrarbodfes '" °"' ^""'"^ "^
The MOTrtcfaA drove Nekhliidoff out of the rate
almi sVwfsh d .Tdrilf off :^;!' tur„i„gr5?eSdofI. " I
Nekhlidoff agree" °YTiTZT^^!,°l >""■•"
breath, and looked up wlh'a ense of%"r f"?"^" ''"P
clouds that were floattejin the skt ^Ltlu^' ?! ^.rey
npples made by the boat! and steam^erslfhe Ne^a"'"'"^
niss. It is
p company
'■- are no
e jii^it im-
■ emitted no
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CHAPTER XX.
MASLOVA S APPEAL.
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The next day Maslova's case was to be examined at the
Senate, and Nekhludoff and the advocate met at the ma-
jestic portal of the building, where several carriages were
waiting. Ascending the magnificent and imposing stair-
case to the first floor, the advocate, who knew all the ins
and outs of the place, turned to the left and entered through
a door which had the date of the introduction of the Code
of Laws above it.
After taking off his overcoat in the first narrow room, he
found out from the attendant that the Senators had all ar-
rived, and that the last had just come in. Fanarin, in his
swallow-tail coat, a white tie above the white shirt-front,
a d a self-confident smile on his lips, passed into the next
room. In this room there were to the right a large cup-
board and a table, and to the left a winding staircase, which
an elegant official in uniform was descending with a port-
folio under his arm. In this room an old man with long,
white hair and a patriarchal appearance attracted every one's
attention. He wore a short coat and grey trousei s. Two
attendants stood respectfully beside him. The old man with
white hair entered the cupboard and shut himself in.
Fanarin noticed a fellow-advocate dressed in the same
way as himself, with a white tie and dress coat, and at once
entered into an animated conversation with him.
Nekhludoff was meanwhile examining the people in the
room. The public consisted of about 15 persons, of whom
two were ladies — a young one with a pince-nez, and an old,
grey-haired one.
A case of libel was to be heard that day, and therefore
the public were more numerous than usual — chiefly persons
belonging to the journalistic world.
The usher, a red-cheeked, handsome man in a fine uni-
form, came up to Fanarin and asked him what his business
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net at the ma-
carriages were
mposing stair-
lew all the ins
itered through
m of the Code
rrow room, he
ors had all ar-
Fanarin, in his
ite shirt-front,
1 into the next
t a large cup-
taircase, which
g with a port-
lan with long,
ted every one's
rousei'j. Two
s old man with
nself in.
1 in the same
It, and at once
m.
people in the
sons, of whom
?j, and an old,
and therefore
:hiefly persons
in a fme uni-
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was. When he heard that it was the case of Maslova hp
noted something down and walked away Then the cu^
This funny costume seemed to make the old man himself
hutieLTt'oftt^Ao'"'' ->^-^ faster than hTs'wo'irh
nurriecl out of the door opposite the entrance.
,' ,^ hearing of the case soon commenced and N^Uh
Ctember'*Th^ ""l'?"^' Tf""" *^ ''" -<>"°f "e Senate"
tnmmed ve vet instead of green cloth ; but the™ttnbut!s of
emblem of servilij?, were'.here ^"'P''°'' P°«'-='"' *e
Court is coming" T"''' '" *' '=""= ^°'^"'" ™»"": " The
E^r:3/i^r„"nr;4-Vn'Lrd^^^^^^^^^
the business papers ; SkovorodnikofT, I hiavv fa? nnrk
the fact that he hr,.! not seen him fo^ 'sS year" °Ae' had
been one of his b- Mends in Nekh.udoff's'^Sent days
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"The public prosecutor Selenin?" Nekhludoff asked,
turning to the advo
"Yes. Why?
" I know hi;., wxii. . i is a fine fellow."
" And a good public prosecutor ; business-like. Now he
is the man y oa should have interested."
" He will act according to his conscience in any case,"
said Nekhludoff, recalling the intimate relations and friend-
ship between himself and Selen'.", .' he attractive quali-
ties of the latter — pUrity, honesty, and good breeding in its
best sense.
" Yes, there is no time now," whispered Fanarin, who
was listening to the report of the case that had commenced.
Tbc Court of Justice was accused of having left a deci-
sion of the Court of Law unaltered.
Nekhludoff listened and tried to make out the meaning
of what was going on ; but, just as in the Criminal Court,
his chief difficulty was that not the evidently chief point, but
some sidte issues, were being discussed. The case was that
of a newspaper which had published the account of a
swindle arranged by a director of a limited liability com-
pany. It seemed that the only important question was
whether the director of the company really abused his trust,
and how to ttop him from doing it. But the questions under
consideration were whether the editor had a right to pub-
lish this article of his contributor, and what he had been
guilty of in publishing it : slander or libel, and in what way
slander included libel, or libel included slander, and some-
thing rather incomprehensible to ordinary people about all
sorts of statuter. and resolutior passed by some General
Department.
The only thing clear to Nekhludoff was that, in spite of
what Wolf had so strenuously insisted on, the day before,
i.e., that the "^^enat could not try ' case on its merits, in this
case he was evideiiily strongly ai favour of repealing the
decision of the Court of Justice, and that Selenin, m spite of
his characteristic reticence, stated lie opposite opinion witli
quite unexpected warmth, "^he
Nekhludoff, evinced by the ,ui'
was due to his kiiowledge t tl,
money matters, and the fact, which nad accidental! come to
his ears, that Wolf had been to a swell dinner party at the
swindler's house only a few days before.
irmtii, which sur] rised
self-control; d Selenin,
director's shabbiness in
iludoff asked,
like. Now he
in any case,"
ns and friend-
tractive quali-
)reeding in its
Fanarin, who
1 commenced,
ig left a deci-
; the meaning
•iminal Court,
hief point, but
case was that
account of a
liability corn-
question was
used his trust,
lestions under
right to pub-
he had been
1 in what way
er, and some-
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Now that Wolf spoke on the case, guardedly enough, but
with evident bias, Selenin became excited, and expressed
his opinion with too much nervous irritation for an ordinary
business transaction. It was clear that Selenin's speech
had offended Wolf. He grew red, moved in his chair, made
silent gestures of surprise, and at last rose, with a Try
dignified and injured look, together with tlie other senators
and went out into the debating-room. senators.
What particular case have you come about? " the uslicr
asked again, addressing Fanarin.
"I have already told you: Maslova's case."
- n f' V^\f°\ ^* '' t*^ ^^ ^^^''^ to-tlay, but "
" w ^ advocate asked.
Well you see, this case was to be examined without
taking sides, so that the senators ;il hardly come out again
after passing the resolution. But 1 will inform them." ^
^^ What do you mean ? "
"I'll inform them; Til inform them." And the usher
again put something down on his paper.
The Senators really meant to pronounce their decision
concerning the libel case, and then to finish the itherTus"
nt^s, Maslovas case among it, over their tea and cigarettes
wjr ' uit leaving the debating-room. g'lreues,
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THE APPEAL DISMISSED.
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As soon as the Senators were seated round the table in
the deb ting-room, Wolf began to bring forward with great
animation all the motives in favour of a repeal. The chair-
man, an ill-natured man at best, was in a particularly bad
humour that day. His thoughts were concentrated on the
wotds he had written down in his memoranda on the occa-
sion when not he but ViglanofF was appointed to the impor-
tant post he had long coveted. It was the chairman, Nikitin's,
honest conviction that his opinions of the officials of the
two upp^r classes with which he was in connection would
furnish valuable material for the historians. He had written
a chapter the day before in which the officials of the upper
classes got it hot for preventing him, as he expressed it,
from averting the ruin towards which the present rulers
of Russia were drving it, which simply meant that they had
prevented his getting a better salary. And now he was
considering what a new light to posterity this chapter would
shed on events.
" Yes, certainly," he said, in reply to the words addressed
to him by Wolf, without listening to them.
Bay was listening to Wolf with a sad face and drawing
a garland on the paper that lay before him. Bay was a
Liberal of the very first water. He held sacred the Liberal
traditions of the sixth decade of this century, and if he ever
overstepped the limits of strict neutrality it was always in
the direction of Liberalism. So in this case ; beside the fact
that the swindling director, who was prosecuting for libel,
was a bad lot, the prosecution of a journalist for libel in
itself tending, as it did, to restrict the freedom of the press,
inclined Bay to reject the appeal.
When Wolf concluded his arguments Bay stopped draw-
ing his p-arland and bee-an.in a sad and eentle voice Che was
sad because he was obliged to demonstrate such truisms)
concisely, simply and convincingly to show how unfounded
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the accusation was and then, bending his white head, he
continued drawing his garland.
SkovorcKlnikoff who sat opposite Wolf, and, with his
fat fingers, kept shoving his beard and moustaches into his
mouth, stopped chewing his beard as soon as Bay was silent
tTe fact oMh. %^Z^' f '^'"^ "°'^^' '^''' "^^withstanding
hlJT } ^ '^"^*'^°'" ^r^'S ^ terrible scoundrel, he would
have been for the repeal of the sentence if there were a v
oofn oT'°H ^^^ '' ' ?"i' ^' '^''' ^^^^ "°"^' ^' was of Ba^
opinion He was glad to put this spoke in Wolf's wheel
wal rejected"" ^^ ^''^ Skovorodnikoff, and the appeal
cail^'h^ Jtlnc^'^'^J'^w' ^^P^^i^"y because it was like being
caught acting with dishonest partiality ; so he pretended to
Mdsltfw.^^^^^ k"^°^^'"^ '^'' ^°^""^^"^ ^hich contafned
Maslova s case, he became engrossed in it. Meanwhile the
Senators rang and ordered tea. and began talking Tom the
event that, together with the duel, was occupying the Peters-
burgers. It was the case of the chief of a Government
&~ "'" "'' '''"'^' °^ ^^^ ^^^-^ provided TrTn
;' What nastiness." said Bay, with disgust.
Why; where is the harm of it? I can show vou a
Russian book containing the project of a Germa^ writer
c"r^e•^:^^'^^rP°•'^^*^^.^^^^°"'^ "°* ^^ considered a
crime, said Skovorodnikoff. drawing in greedily the fumes
lV.rP^'f "'^^"f"'' ^^b'^'^ he held between his fingers
close to the palm and he laughed boisterously. ^
^^ Impossible ! " said Bay.
fJu I'f^^l fu °Y ''\ y°"'" '^^^ Skovorodnikoff. giving the
full mle of the book, and even its date and the nime ?f its
Siberia.^^'^ ^^ ^^' ^^^" appointed governor to some town in
crucifix^*' Th^" '^h,^ ^'•chdeacon will meet him with a
Zrf''^'-A<^^ ought to appoint an archdeacon of the same
sort, said Skovorodnikoff. " I could recommend theni one '^
and he threw the end of his cigarette into hTssaucTr and
cS inH' " T'^ f .^'^ ^'^^^^ -^ moustaches ^sh
could into his mouth and began chewing them.
1 ne usher came in and renorfpd thp a^v^'-qt«'<; r^-^r] ^VH-,
ludotf-s desire to be present at the examin'atioLf mIsWs'
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" This case," Wolf said, " is quite romantic," and he told
them what he knew about Nekhludoff's relations with Mas-
lova. When they had spoken a little about it and finished
their tea and cigarettes, the Senators returned into the Senate
Chamber and proclaimed their decision in the libel case,
and began to hear Maslova's case.
Wolf, in his thin voice, reported Maslova's appeal very
fully, but again not without some bias and an evident wish
for the repeal of the sentence.
" Have you anything to add ? " the chairman said, turnmg
to Fanarin. Fanarin rose, and standing with his broad
white chest expanded, proved point by point, with wonderful
exactness and persuasiveness, how the Court had in six
points strayed from the exact meaning of the law; and
besides this he touched, though briefly, on the merits of
the case, and on the crying injustice of the sentence. The
tone of his speech was one of apology to the Senators, who,
with their penetration and judicial wisdom, could not help
seeing^ and understanding it all better than he could. He
was obliged to speak only because the duty he had under-
taken forced him to do so.
After Fanarin's speech one might have thought that there
could not remain the least doubt that the Senate ought to
repeal the decision of the Court. When he had finished his
speech, Fanarin looked round with a smile of triumph,
seeing which Nekhludoff felt certain that the case was won.
But when he looked at the Senators he saw that Fanarin
smiled and triumphed all alone. The Senators and the Public
Prosecutor did not smile nor triumph, but looked like people
wearied, and who were thinking "We have often heard
the like of you ; it is all in vain," and were only too glad
when he stopped and ceased uselessly detaining them there.
Immediately after the end of the advocate's speech the
chairman turned to the Public Prosecutor. Selenin brie%
and clearly expressed himself in favour of leaving the deci-
sion of the Court unaltered, as he considered all the reasons
for appealing inadequate. After this the Senators went out
into- the debating-room. They were divided in their opin-
ions. Wolf was in favour of altering the decision. Bay,
when he had understood the case, took up the same side
with fervour, vividly presenting the scene at the court to
himself. Nikitin, who
formality, took up
his companions as he clearly saw it
always was on the side of severity and
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ic," and he told
:ions with Mas-
it and finished
. into the Senate
the hbel case,
a's appeal very
an evident wish
an said, turning
with his broad
with wonderful
lurt had in six
f the law ; and
1 the merits of
sentence. The
; Senators, who,
could not help
1 he could. He
r he had under-
ought that there
Senate ought to
had finished his
lile of triumph,
e case was won.
iw that Fanarin
•s and the Public
»oked like people
ive often heard
•e only too glad
ling them there,
ite's speech the
Selenin briery
leaving the deci-
d all the reasons
2nators went out
;d in their opin-
decision. Bay,
p the same side
at the court to
f. Nikitin, who
rmality, took up
'the other side. All depended on Skovorodnikoff's vote and
he voted for rejecting the appeal, because Nekhludoff's
determination to marry the woman on moral grounds was
extremely repugnant to him.
Skovorodnikoff was a materialist, a Darwinian, and
counted every manifestation of abstract morality, or, worse
still, religion, not only as a despicable folly, but as a per-
sonal affront to himself. All this bother about a prostitute
and the presence of a celebrated advocate and Nekhludoff in
the Senate ^yere in the highest degree repugnant to him. So
he shoved his beard into his mouth and made faces, and ven/
skilfully pretended to know nothing of this case, excepting
that the reasons for an appeal were insufficient, and that h^
therefore, agreed with the chairman to leave the decision of
the Court unaltered.
So the sentence remained unrepealed.
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CHAPTER XXII.
AN OLD FRIEND.
" Terrible," said Nekhludoff, as he went out into the
waiting-room with the advocate, who was arranging the
papers in his portfoHo. " In a matter which is perfectly
clear they attach all the importance to the form and reject the
appeal. Terrible ! "
" The case was spoiled in the Criminal Court," said the
advocate.
" And Selenin. too, was in favour of the rejection. Terri-
ble ! terrible ! " Nekhludoff repeated. " What is to be done
now ? "■
" We will appeal to His Majesty, and you can hand in the
petition yourself while you are here. I will write it for you."
At this moment little Wolf, with his stars and uniform,
came out into the waiting-room and approached Nekhludoff.
" It could not be helped, dear Prince. The reasons for an
appeal were not sufficient," he said, shrugging His narrow
shoulders and closing his eyes, and then he went his way.
After Wolf, Selenin came out too, having heard from the
Senators that his old friend Nekhludoff was there.
" Well, I never expected to see you here," he said, coming
up to Nekhludoff, and smiling only with his lips while his
eves remained sad. " I did not know you were in Peters-
burg."
" And I did not know you were Public Prosecutor-in-
Chief."
" How is it you are in the Senate?" asked Selenin. " I
had heard, by the way, that you were in Petersburg. But
what are you doing here ? "
" Here? I am here because I hoped to find justice and
save a woman innocentlv condemned."
"What woman?"
" The one whose case has just been decided."
" Oh ! Maslova's case," said Selenin, suddenly remember-
ing it. " The appeal had no grounds whatever."
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out into the'
arranging the
:h is perfectly
1 and reject the
Durt," said the
ection. Terri-
t is to be done
:an hand in the
•ite it for you."
i and uniform,
ed Nekhludoff.
reasons for an
ng Kis narrow
2nt his way.
leard from the
tiere.
le said, coming
lips while his
/ere in Peters-
Prosecutor-in-
d Selenin. " I
tersburg. But
nd justice and
:nlv remember-
er.''
I know how we made the
You should have made a
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" It is not the appeal ; it's the woman who is innocent, and
IS bemg punished,"
Selenin sighed. " That may well be, but "
Not may be, but is."
" How do you know ? "
*' Because I was on the jury,
mistake."
Selenin became thoughtful,
statement at the time," he said.
''^ I did make the statement."
" It should have been put down in an official report If
this had been added to the petition for the appeal "
',] Xf^' ^"^ ^*^^^' ^s it is, the verdict is evidently absurd."
Ihe Senate has no right to say so. If the Senate took
upon Itself to repeal the decision of the law courts according
to Its own views as to the justice of the decisions in them-
selves, the verdict of the jury would lose all its meaning not
to mention that the Senate would have no basis to go upon,
and would mn the risk of infringing justice rather Than up-
nolding it said Selenin, calling to mind the case that had
just been heard.
.u'l^i" ] ^"?^ '^ *,^^* ^^'^ woman is quite innocent, and
that the last hope of saving her from an unmerited punish-
ment is gone. The grossest injustice has been confirmed by
the highest court. ^
'' It has not been confirmed. The Senate did not and can-
not enter into the merits of the case in itself," said Selenin
Always busy and rarely going out into society, he had evi-
dently heard nothing of Nekhludofif's romance. Nekhludoff
noticed It, and made up his mind that it was best to say noth-
ing about his special relations with Maslova.
" You are probably staying with your aunt," Selenin re-
marked, apparently wishing to change the subject " She
told me you were here yesterday, and she invited me to meet
you in the evening, when some foreign preacher was to lec-
ture, and Selenin again smiled only with his lips.
Yes, I was there, but left in disgust," said Nekhludoff
angrily vexed that Selenin had changed the subject
Why with disgust? After all, it is a manifestation of
religious feeling, though one-sided and sectarian," said Sel-
enin. '
'' nu^' '^'^ °"^^ ^°"^^ '^'"^ °^ whimsical folly."
Oh, dear, no. The curious thing is that' we know the
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teaching of our church so Httle that we see some new kind
of revelation in what are, after all, our own fundamental
dogmas," said Selenin, as if hurrying to let his old friend
know his new views.
Nekhludoff looked at Selenin scrutinisingly and with sur-
prise, and Selenin dropped his eyes, in which appeared an
expression not only of sadness but also of ill-will.
" Do you, then, believe in the dogmas of the church?"
Nekhludoff asked.
" Of course I do," replied Selenin, gazing straight into
Nekhludoff's eyes with a lifeless look.
Nekhludoff sighed. " It is strange," he said.
" However, we shall have a talk some other time," said
Selenin. " I am coming," he added, in answer to the usher,
who had respectfully approached him. " Yes, we must meet
again," he went on with a sigh. " But will it be possible for
me to find you ? You will always find me in at seven o'clock.
My address is Nadejdinskaya, and he gave the number.
" Ah, time does not stand still," and he turned to go, smiling
only with his lips.
" I will come if I can," said Nekhludoff, feeling that a man
once near and dear to him had, by this brief conversation,
suddenly become strange, distant, and incomprehensible, if
not hostile to him.
ome new kind
fundamental
his old friend
and with sur-
1 appeared an
ill.
the church?"
■ straight into
i.
er time," said
r to the usher,
we must meet
be possible for
seven o'clock.
; the number,
to go, smiling
ing that a man
: conversation,
prehensible, if
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CHAPTER XXIII.
THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.
When Nekhludofif knew Selenin as a student, he was a
good son, a true friend, and for his years an educated man
of the world, with much tact ; elegant, handsome, and at the
same time truthful and honest. He learned well, without
much exertion and with no pedantry, receiving gold medals
for his essays. He considered the service of mankind, not
only in words but in acts, to be the aim of his young life. He
saw no other way of being useful to humanity than by serv-
ing the State. Therefore, as soon as he had completed his
studies, he systematically examined all the activities to which
he might devote his life, and decided to enter the Second
Department of the Chancellerie, where the laws are drawn
up, and he did so. But, in spite of the most scrupulous and
exact discharge of the duties demanded of him, this service
gave no satisfaction to his desire of being useful, nor could
he awake in himself the consciousness that he was doing " the
right thing."
This dissatisfaction was so much increased by the friction
v.'ith his very smaii-minded and vain fellow officials that he
left the Chancellerie and entered the Senate. It was better
there, but the same dissatisfaction still pursued him ; he felt
it to be very different from what he had expected, and from
what ought to be.
And now that he was in the Senate his relatives obtained
for him the post of Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and he
had to go in a carriage, dressed in an embroidered uniform
and a white linen apron, to thank all sorts of people for hav-
ing placed him in the position of a lackey. However much
he tried he could find no reasonable explanation for the exist-
ence of this post, and felt, more than in the Senate, that it
was not " the right t^'-nfr " and yet he could not refuse it for
fear of hurting thr se v. ho felt sure they were giving him
much pleasure by ti'iis 'i^nointment, and because it flattered
the lowest part of .v <; .^-iture. It pleased him to see himself
in a mirror in his gold-embroidered uniform, and to accept
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the deference paid him by some people because of his posi-
tion.
Something of the same kind happened when he married.
A very brilliant match, from a worldly point of view, was ar-
ranged for him, and he married chiefly because by refusing
he would have had to hurt the young lady who wished to be
married to him, and those who arranged the marriage, and
also because a marriage with a nice young girl of noble birth
flattered his vanity and gave him pleasure. But this mar-
riage very soon proved to be even less " the right thing "
than the Government service and his position at Court.
After the birth of her first child the wife decided to have
no more, and began leading that luxurious worldly life in
which he now had to participate whether he liked or not.
She was not particularly handsome, and was faithful to
him, and she seemed, in spite of all the efforts it cost her,
to derive nothing but weariness from the life she led, yet she
perseveringly continued to live it, though it was poisoning
her husband's life. And all his efforts to alter this life was
shattered, as against a stone wall, by her conviction, which
all her friends and relatives supported, that all was as it
should be.
The child, a little girl with bare legs and long golden
curls, v/as a being perfectly foreign to him, chiefly because
she was trained quite otherwise than he wished her to be.
There sprung up between the husband and wife the usual
misunderstanding, without even the wish to understand
each other, and then a silent warfare, hidden from outsiders
and tempered by decorum. All this made his life at home a
burden, and became even less " the right thing " than his
service and his post.
But it was above all his attitude towards religion which
was not " the right thing." Like every one of his set and his
time, by the growth of his reason he broke without the least
effort the nets of the religious superstitions in which he was
brought up, and did not himself exactly know when it was
that he treed himself of them. Being earnest and upright,
he did not, during his youth and intimacy with Nekhludoff
as a student, conceal his rejection of the State religion. But
as years went on and he rose in the service, and especially
at the time of the reaction tovvard? conservatism in society,
his spiritual freedom stood in his way.
At home, when his father died, he had to be present at
if
e of his posi-
1 he married,
view, was ar-
e by refusing
wished to be
narriage, and
of noble birth
But this mar-
right thing "
t Court,
cided to have
/orldly Hfe in
ked or not.
as faitliful to
ts it cost her,
le icd, yet she
vdLS poisoning
■ this Hfe was
action, which
all was as it
long golden
liefly because
ed her to be.
k'ife the usual
D understand
rom outsiders
life at home a
ng " than his
eligion which
lis set and his
hout the least
which he was
r when it was
and upright,
h Nekhltidoff
religion. But
md especially
sm in society,
be present at
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the masses said for his soul, and his mother wished him to
go to confession or to communion, and it was in a way ex-
pected, by public opinion, but above all, Government ser-
vice demanded that he should be present at all sorts of ser-
vices, consecrations, thanksgivings, and the like. Hardly a
day passed without some outward religious form having to
be observed.
When present at these services he had to pretend that he
believed in something which he did not believe in, and
being truthful he could not do this. The alternative was,
having made up his mind that all these outward signs were
deceitful, to alter his life in such a way that he would not
have to be present at such ceremonials. But to do what
seemed so simple would have cost a great deal. Besides
encountering the perpetual hostility of all those who were
near to him, he would have to give up the service and his
position, and sacrifice his hopes of being useful to human-
ity by his service, now and in the future. To make such a
sacrifice one would have to be firmly convinced of being
right.
And he was firmly convinced he was right, as no educated
man of our time can help being convinced who knows a
little history and how the religions, and especially Church
Christianity, originated.
But under the stress of his daily life he, a truthful man,
allowed a little falsehood to creep in. He said that in order
to do justice to an unreasonable thing one had to study the
unreasonable thing. It was a little falsehood, but it sunk
him into the big falsehood in which he was now caught.
Before putting to himself the question whether the ortho-
doxy in which he was born and bred, and which every one
expected him to accept, and without which he could not
continue his useful occupation, contained the truth, he had
already decided the answer. And to clear up the question
he did not read Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer,
or Comte, but the philosophical works of Hegel and the
religious works of Vinet and Khomyakoff, and naturally
found in them what he wanted, i.e., something like peace of
mind and a vindication of that religious teaching in which
he was educated, which his reason had long ceased to ac-
cer^t. but without wliich his wliole life was filled with
icCi vvun un-
pleasantness which could all be removed by accepting the
teaching.
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And so he adopted all the usual sophistries which go to
prove that a single human reason cannot know the truth,
that the truth is only revealed to an association of men, and
can only be known by revelation, that revelation is kept by
the church, etc. And so he managed to be present at
prayers, masses for the dead, to confess, make signs of the
cross in front of icons, with a quiet mind, without being
conscious of the lie, and to continue in the service which
gave him the feeling of being useful and some comfort in
his joyless family life. Although he believed this, he felt
with his entire being that this religion of his, more than
all else, was not " the right thing," and that is why his eyes
always looked sad.
And seeing Nekhludoflf, whom he had known before all
these lies had rooted themselves within him, reminded him
of what he then was. It was especially after he had hurried
to hint at his religious views that he had most strongly felt
all this " not the right thing," and had become painfully
sad. NekhludofT felt it also after the first joy of meeting
his old friend had passed, and therefore, though they prom-
ised each other to meet, they did not take any steps towards
an interview, and did not again see each other during this
stay of Nekhludoflf's in Petersburg.
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which go to
3W the truth,
1 of men, and
on is kept by
le present at
: signs of the
/ithout being
service which
le comfort in
[ this, he felt
s, more than
why his eyes
wn before all
eminded him
e had hurried
: strongly felt
)me painfully
y of meeting
h they prom-
steps towards
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CHAPTER XXIV.
MARIETTE TEMPTS NEKHLUDOFF.
When they left the Senate, Nekhludoflf and the advocate
walked on together, the advocate having given the driver
of his carriage orders to follow them. The advocate told
Nekhludoflf the story of the chief of a Government depart-
ment, about whom the Senators had been talking : how the
thing was found out, and how the man, who according to
law should have been sent to the mines, had been appointed
Governor of a town in Siberia. Then he related with par-
ticular pleasure how several high-placed persons stole a lot
of money collected for the erection of the still unfinished
monument which they had passed that morning ; also, how
the mistress of So-and-so got a lot of money at the Stock
Exchange, and how So-and-so agreed with So-and-so to
sell him his wife. The advocate began another story about
a swindle, and all sorts of crimes committed by persons in
high places, who, instead of being in prison, sat on presi-
dential chairs in all sorts of Government institutions. These
tales, of which the advocate seemed to have an unending
supply, gave him much pleasure, showing as they did, with
perfect clearness, that his means of getting money were
quite just and innocent compared to the means which the
highest oflficials in Petersburg made use of. The advocate
was therefore surprised when Nekhludoflf took an isvostchik
before hearing the end of the story, said good-bve, and left
him. Nekhludoflf felt very sad. It was chiefly the rejection
of the appeal by the Senate, confirming the senseless tor-
ments that the innocent Maslova was enduring, that sad-
dened him, and also the fact that this rejection made it still
harder for him to unite his fate with hers. The stories about
existing evils, which the advocate recounted with such
relish, heightened his sadness, and so did the cold, unkind
look that the once sweet-natured, frank, noble Selenin had
given him, anxl which kept recurring to his mind.
On his return the doorkeeper handed him a note, and
said, rather scornfully, that some kind of woman had writ-
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She wrote that she had come to thank her daught ;r'? bene-
factor and saviour, and to implore him to come tu sc.; them
on the Vasihevsky, 5th Line, house No. — . This was very
necessary because of Vera Doukhova. He need not be
afraid that tliey would weary him with expressions of grati-
tude They would not speak their gratitude, but be simply
glad to see him. Would he not come next morning, if he
There was another note from Bogotyreflf, a former fellow-
officer aide-de-camp to the Emperor, whom Nekhludolt had
asked to hand personally to the Emperor his petition on
Tjehalf of the sectarians. Bogotyreflf wrote, in his large,
firm hand, that he would put the petition into the Emperor s
own hands, as he had promised ; but that it had occurred to
him that it might be better for Nekhludoflf f^rst to go and
see the person on whom the matter depended.
After the impressions received during the last few days,
Nekhludoflf felt perfectly hopeless of getting anything done.
The plans he had formed in Moscow seemed now something
like the dreams of youth, which are inevitably followed by
disillusion when life comes to be faced. Still, being now in
Petersburg, he considered it his duty to do all he had in-
tended, and he resolved next day, after consulting B( .^o-
tyreflf, to art on his advice and see the person on whom the
case of xhe i.cctarians depended.
He got out the sectarians' petition from his portfolio, and
began reading it over, when there was a knock at his door,
and a footman came in with a message from the Countess
Katerina Ivanovna, who asked him to come up and have
a cup of tea with her. , , •
Nekhludoflf said he would come at once, and having put
the papers back into the portfolio, he went up to his aunt s.
He looked out of a window on his way, and saw Manette s
pair of bays standing in front of the house, and he suddenly
brightened and felt inclined to smile.
Mariette, with a hat on her head, not in black but with
a light dress of many shades, sat with a cup in her hand
beside the Countess's easv chair, prattling about something
while her beautiful, laughing eyes glistened. She had said
.som.ething funnv— something indecently funny— just as
Nekhludoflf entered the room. He knew it bv the way she
laughed, and ^y the way the good-natured Countess Kate-
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^ht;r'? bene-
tu see them
his was very
leed not be
ons of grati-
ut be simply
Dniing, if he
irmer fellow-
khludoflf had
, petition on
in his lar^e,
le Emperor's
I occurred to
st to go and
ist few days,
lything done.
)\v something
followed by
being now in
II he had in-
ulting B( ,^0-
on whom the
portfolio, and
k at his door,
the Countess
up and have
id having put
to his aunt's.
aw Mariette's
d he suddenly
lack but with
> in her hand
DUt something
She had said
inny — just as
v the way she
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rina Ivanovna's fat body was shaking with laughtc' , vvliile
Mariette, her smil.ng mouth slightly drawn to one hide, her
head a little bent, a peculiarly mischievous expression in
her merry, energetic face, sat silently looking at her com-
panion. From a few words which he overheard, Nekhludoflf
guessed that they were talking of the second piece of Peters-
burg news, the episode of the Siberian Governor, and that
It was m reference to this subject that Mariette had said
somethmg so funny that the Countess could not control
herself for a long time.
" You will kill me," she said, coughing.
After saying "How d'you do?" Nekhlu sat down.
He was about to censure Mariette in his .id for her
levity when, noticing the serious and even slightly dissatis-
hed look in iHs eyes, she suddenly, to please him, changed
not only the expression of her face, but also the attitude
of her mind ; for she felt the wish to please him as soon as
she looked at him. She suddenly turned serious, dissatisfied
with her life, as if seeking and striving after something-
It was not that she pretended, but she really reproduced in
herself the very same state of mind that he was in, al-
though It would have been impossible for her to express
in words what was the state of NekhludofT's mind at that
moment.
She asked him how he had accomplished his tasks He
told her about his failure in the Senate and his meeting
belenin. °
" Oh, what a pure soul ! He is, indeed, a chevalier sans
peur etsans reprochc. A pure soul ! " said both ladies, using
the epithet commonly applied to Selenin in Petersburg
society. °
" What is his wife like? " Nekhludofif asked.
" His wife? Well, I do not wish to judge, but she does
not understand him."
" Is it possible that he, too, was for rejecting the appeal? "
Mariette asked with real sympathy. " It is dreadful. How
sorry I am for her," she added with a sigh.
He frowned, and in order to change the subject began
to speak about Shoustova, who had been imprisoned in
the fortress and was now set free through the influence
of Mariette s husband. He thanked her for her trouble
and was going on to say how dreadful lie thought i^ that
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because no one had reminded the authorities about them,
but Mariette interrupted him and expressed her own indig-
nation.
" Say nothing about it to me," she said. " When my
husband told me she could be set free, it was this that struck
me, ' What was she kept in prison for if she is innocent ? ' "
She went on expressing what Nekhludoflf was about to say.
" It is revolting — revolting."
Countess Katerina Ivanovna noticed that Mariette was
coquetting with her nephew, and this amused her. " What
do you think ? " she said, when they were silent. " Suppos-
ing you come to Aline's to-morrow night. Kiesewetter will
be there. And you, too," she said, turning to Mariette. " //
voiis a rcmarquc," she went on to her nephew. " He told
me that what you say (I repeated it all to him) is a very
good sign, and that you will certainly come to Christ. You
must come absolutely. Tell him to, Mariette, and come
yourself."
" Countess, in the first place, I have no right whatever
to give any kind of advice to the Prince," said Mariette,
and gave Nekhludoflf a look that somehow established a full
comprehension between them of their attitude in relation
to the Countess's words and evangelicalism in general.
" Secondly, I do not much care, you know."
" Yes, I know you always do things the wrong way round,
and according to your own ideas."
" My own ideas ? I have faith like the most simple peas-
ant woman," said Mariette with a smile. " And, thirdly,
I am going to the French Theatre to-morrow night."
" Ah ! And have you seen that What's her name? "
asked Countess Katerina Ivanovna. Mariette gave the name
of a celebrated French actress.
" You must go, most decidedly ; she is wonderful."
" Whom am I to see first, ma tantc—ihe actress or the
preacher? " Nekhludoflf said with a smile.
" Please don't catch at my words."
" I should think the preacher first and then the actress,
or else the desire for the sermon might vanish altogether,"
said Nekhludoflf.
" No ; better begin with the French Theatre, and do pen-
ance afterwards."
" Now, then, vou are not to hold mc up for ridicule. The
preacher is the' preacher and the theatre is the theatre.
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:ies about them,
. her own indig-
d. "When my
; this that struck
is innocent? ' "
/as about to say.
at Mariette was
ed her. " What
ilent. " Suppos-
Kiesewetter will
to Mariette. " //
ihew. " He told
) him) is a very
; to Christ. You
riette, and come
) right whatever
," said Mariette,
established a full
itude in relation
lism in general.
rrong way round,
nost simple peas-
" And, thirdly,
row night."
liat's her name ? "
;te gave the name
wonderful."
he actress or the
then the actress,
anish altogether,"
:atre, and do pen-
for ridicule. The
e is the theatre.
One need not weep in order to be saved. One must have
taith, and then one is sure to be gay."
'' You, ma tantc, preach better than any preacher "
Do you know what? " said Mariette. " Come into my
box to-morrow. ^
" I am afraid I shall not be able to."
The footman interrupted the conversation by announcing
^ r-^uZ' ^ '''^' ^^'^ secretary of a philanthropic society o1
which the Countess was president.
" Oh, that is the dullest of men. I think I shall receive
him out there, and return to you later on. Mariette. eive
him his tea, said the Countess, and left the room, with her
quick, wngghng walk.
Mariette took the glove off her firm, rather flat hand, the
tourth tinger of which was covered with rings
''Want any?" she said, taking hold of the 'silver teapot,
under which a spirit lamp was burning, and extending her
little finger curiously. Her face looked sad and serious.
It IS always terribly painful to me to notice that people
nl;;?ed ?n^'"'°S/ ''^'"' <^oniound me with the position I am
wnr^f A 1^'^ ^^f^f^ '^^'^^ *° ""'y ^' she said these last
words. And though these words had no meaning, or at any
rate a very indefinite meaning, they seemed to be of excep-
tional depth, meaning, or goodness to Nekhludoff, so much
Tnied fh/''''^. by the look of the bright eyes which accom-
SrorJian ^ ^°""^' ^^^^^'^''^' ^^^ well-dressed
Nekhludoff looked at her in silence, and could not take
his eyes from her face.
"You think I do not understand you and all that goes
on n you. Why, everybody knows what you are doing.
C est le secret de pahchincllc. And I am delighted with
your work, and think highly of you "
done''::is;'tie"r;:t.""''"^ ^° '^ ^^''^''''^ ^^^^^^^ -^ ^ ^--
stamnie'^^' Ali ^ """^^['^""f ^""'l' ^"^''"^s, and I under-
nf.^, •! ''• u " -P^^' .^'.^ "^h*- ^ ^i" sav nothing more
about It she said, noticing displeasure on his face. " But I
also understand that after seeing all the suffering and the
l°a7 of n"t/^^-P"r ' '" ^^'"^^ ^^-^"^ °"' '^- °"Jv desire
S.f f t^acting him, and guessing with her wom'an's in-
stinct what was dear and important to him, "you wish to
help the sufferers, those who are made to suffer so Terr by
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by other men, and their cruelty and indifference. I under-
stand the willingness to give one's lite, and could give mine
in such a cause, but we each have our own fate."
" Are you, then, dissatisfied with your fate? "
" I ? " she asked, as if struck with surprise that such a
question could be pu*^ to her. " I have to be satisfied, and am
satisfied. But there is a worm that wakes up "
" And he must not be allowed to fall asleep again. It is a
voice that must be obeyed," Nekhludoflf said, falling into the
trap.
Many a time later on Nekhludoff reniembered with shame
his talk with her. He remembered her words, which were
not so much lies as imitations of his own, and her face, which
seemed looking at him with sympathetic attention when he
told her about the terrors of the prison and of his impres-
sions in the country.
When the Countess returned they were talking not inerely
like old, but like exclusive friends who alone understood one
another. They were talking about the injustice of power,
of the sufferings of the unfortunate, the poverty of the peo-
ple, yet in reality in the midst of the sound of their talk their
eyes, gazing at each other, kept asking, '" Can you love me? "
and answering, " I can," and the sex-feeling, taking the most
unexpected and brightest forms, drew them to each other.
As she was going away she told him that she would alwavs
be willing to serve him in any way she could, and asked '^"
to come and see her, if only for a moment, in the theatre ;
day, as she had a very important thing to tell him about.
" Yes, and when shall I see you again?" she added, with
a sigh, carefully drawing the glove over her jewelled hand.
" Say you will come."
Nekhludoff promised.
That night, when Nekhludoff was alone in his room, and
lay down after putting out his candle, he could not sleep. He
thought of Maslova, of the decision of the Senate, of his re-
solve to follow her in any case, of his having given up the
land. The face of Mariette appeared to him as if in answer
to those thoughts — her look, her sigh, her words, " When
shall I see you again ? " and her smile seemed vivid as if he
really saw her, and he also smiled. " Shall I be doing right
in going to Siberia ? And have I done right in divesting my-
self of my wealth' " And the answers to t^e questions on
this Petersburg night, on which the daylight streamed into
rence. I under-
could give mine
Lte."
e?"
rise that such a
satisfied, and am
P "
'P again. It is a
, falling into the
ered with shame
rds, which were
1 her face, which
tention when he
i of his impres-
Iking not merely
! understood one
ustice of power,
^erty of the peo-
f their talk their
1 you love me ? "
taking the most
n to each other,
le would always
1, and asked ''■
the theatre i
him about.
she added, with
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the window from under the blind, were quite indefinite All
live htZTZn^"""' 'T"'"^ '" '^'' ""^ ="" ""''We to
1,1 ,1^ "ir°"Sn--s"pposmg I repent of liavinir acted riirht "
n his room, and
Id not sleep. He
senate, of his re-
ng given up the
1 as if in answer
words, " When
ed vivid as if he
I be doing right
in divesting my-
t^c questions on
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LYDIA SHOUSTOVA's HOME.
Nekhlijdoff awoke next morning feeling as if he had
been guilty of some iniquity the day before. He began con-
sidering. He could not remember having done anything
wrong; he had committed no evil act, but he had had evil
thoughts. He had thought that all his present resolutions to
marry Katusha and to give up his land were unachievable
dreams ; that he should be unable to bear it ; that it was arti-
ficial, unnatural ; and that he would have to go on living as
he lived.
He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse
t'.an an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts whence
all evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated,
and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil
actions.
An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts ;
evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path.
When NekhludoflF repeated in his mind the thoughts of the
day before, he was surprised that he could for a moment
have believed these thoughts. However new and difficult
that which he had decided to do might be, he knew that it
was the only possible way of life for him now, and however
easy and natural it might have been to return to his former
state, he knew that state to be death.
Yesterday's temptation seemed like the feeling when one
awakes from deep sleep, and, without feeling sleepv, wants
to lie comfortably in bed a little longer, yet knows that it is
time to rise and commence the glad and important work that
awaits one.
On that, his last day in Petersburg, he went in the morn-
ing to the Vasilievski Ostrov to see Shoustova. Shoustova
lived on the second floor, and having been shown the back
stairs. Nekhludoff entered straight into the hot kitchen,
which smelt strongly of food. Ai. elderlv woman, with
turned-up sleeves, with an aprnn and spectacles, stood by the
fire stirring something in a steaming pan.
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f as if he had
He began con-
done anything
e had had evil
t resokitions to
e unachievable
lat it was arti-
;:o on living as
was far worse
DUghts whence
ot be repeated,
!nerate all evil
ither evil acts;
at path.
houghts of the
for a moment
^ and difficult
2 knew that it
, and however
to his former
ling when one
sleepy, wants
lows that it is
tant work that
t in the morn-
a. Shoustova
lown the back
hot kitchen,
woman, with
3, stood by the
Inm^^hc^^^Scr^- " ^'^ ^^'^^' ^^^^-•>'' ^-^-^ ^t
Before Nekhludoff had time to answer, an expression of
fright and joy appeared on her face expression of
apron ''?m'w];"l'''' ^^'^^'^^^^^^ wiping her hands on her
is herr"™rTvr' y^^^r^X^y. My sister asked me to. She
* aJt Sthf;:a;So^-;^:t ^^i
uo iff '"^aV"'''""^'."^ ^''^ ^''^' ^"^ pulhng at her kSed!
earcl of her "'' T'^' n ",'"^^ '^ Kornilova. You mus have
" Shp ,?; • f '^ ^'^'^^'^' stopping before a closed door
woman?" ""'' "^ " ^ P°''^'^^' ^«^^-- ^n extremely clever
lud^off Inin'^f f.H °'^''' °^?'^^ ^^'^ ^°°'- ^"d showed Nekh-
udott mto a little room where on a sofa wJHi n foKil u r
..sat a plu„,p, short girl with fa" ha ?'ha" rtd r^,„''d her
Tt^^^^^'^^r ''-' "'' '" -ther1/°^h"e\\"
black beard and moustaches. ^^'
"Lydia Prince Nekhludoff!" he said
r.f\J ^r r-^'jl J""iped up, nervously pushing back a lock
'' Yes I am " said Lydia Shoustova, her broad kind child
like smile disclosing a row of beautiful teeth '' It was^nf
who was so anxious to see you. Aunt ' "she called onf In.
pleasant, tender voice through a door "^' '" ^
nnic^""s';id N^ekSr ''''''' ^''^ ^^^^'^^^ ^^^
Take a seat here, or better hero " c^iVi qk^/.,-..
hfdir,j';ir-' --•"^'^'- >x:df'tris/ra'.;
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The young man greeted tlie visitor with a smile as kindly
as Shoustova's, and when Xekhludoff sat down he brought
himself another chair, and sat by his side. A fair-haired
schoolboy of about i6 also came 'into the room and silently
sat down on the window-sill.
"Vera Doukhova is a great friend of my aunt's, but I
hardly know her," said Shoustova.
Then a woman with a very pleasant face, with a white
blouse and leather belt, came in from the next room.
"How do you do? Thanks for coming," she began as
soon as she had taken the place next Shoustova's on the
sofa.
"Well, and how is Vera. You have seen her? How
does she bear her fate ? "
" She does not complain," said Nekhludofif. " She says
she feels perfectly happy."
" Ah, that's like Vera. I know her," said the aunt, smiling
and shaking her head. " One must know her. She lias a
fine character. Everything for others ; nothing for herself."
" No, she asked nothing for herself, but only seemed con-
cerned about your niece. What seemed to tro'uble her most
was, as she said, that your niece was imprisoned for noth-
ing."
" Yes, that's true," said the aunt. " It is a dreadful busi-
ness. She suffered, in reality, because of me."
" Not at all, aunt. I should have taken the papers with-
out you all the same."
" Ahow me to know better," said the aunt. " You see,"
she went on to Nekhludofif, " it all happened because a cer-
tain person asked me to keep his papers for a time; and I,
having no house at the time, brought them to her. And
that very night the police searched her room and took her
and the papers, and have kept her up to now, demanding
that she should say from whom she had them."
" But I never to'ld them," said Shoustova quickly, pulling
nervously at a lock that was not even out of place.
" I never said you did," answered the aunt.
" If they took Mitin up, it was certainly not through me,"
said Shoustova, blushing, and looking round uneasily.
" Don't speak about it, Lydia dear," said her mother.
"Why not? I should like to relate it," said Shoustova.
no longer smiling nor pulling her lock, but twisting it round
her finger and getting redder.
smile as kindly
)vvn he brought
A fair-haired
om and silently
y aunt's, but I
i, with a white
xt room.
she began as
istova's on the
!en her? How
>ff. " She says
le aunt, smiling
ler. She lias a
ng for herself,"
ly seemed con-
ouble her most
oned for noth-
L dreadful busi-
le papers with-
t. "You see,"
because a cer-
a time ; and I,
I to her. And
1 and took her
)w, demanding
[uickly, pulling
place.
t through me,"
uneasily,
er mother,
aid Shoustova,
'^isting it round
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talking"abou[1t''"'''' ^^'^^''""^ '''''''^'>' "•^^" >'°" ^^^^"
fJi' ^°^ ^^,^^^ ~ .Leave me alone, mamma. I did not
tell I only kept quiet. When he examined me about Mit?n
answer '"' '""'' ^ ^"^ "°*'""^' ^"^ *°^^ ^""^ I 'vo"ld ni"
" Then this — Petrov "
" Petrov is a spy, a gendarme, and a blackguard," put in
the aunt, to explam her niece's words to Nekhludoff. ^
.,>«>> l;e began persuading." continued Shoustova, ex-
citedly and hurriedly. " ' Anvthing you tell me ' he saW
bfaU'to s?t ?"^' °" ^'" -^trary^f^•ou tell"?;, we ma':
be able to set free innocent people whom we may be use-
he tid^^Alfn^,- y^''' ' f'\ ''''' ' ^^'^"^^ "°* t'" T^en
he said All right, don t tell, but do not deny what I am
going to sny.' And he named Mitin." ^
^^ Don t talk about it," said the aunt.
lork of w"^' "^T} ^"^^'•'•"Pt/' and She went on pulling the
ock of hair and lookmg round. "And then, inly fancy
all"7l ' Ytv^''''-''^^>' ^'' '"^ ^^'"°^^' ^'- J<"o^><in& at tl e
1 inwn 1 hU ;" '' ""Tf"'^- ^^'^!'' ^ ^'""^ I ^'^-^ betrayed
n"ari:"went mS"""'"^ "" ^^"'^ ^°^"^"^^^^ '^ - ^'-^ '
he'lt" taken""? '°"' ''"^ '' ''''' "°' ^^ ^" ^^-^^ °^ ^o"
" Yes but I didn't know. I think, ' There, now, I have
betrayed him.' I walk and walk up and down from vva iTIo
im 'Ti'T"°' ^^''P '^""'^^"^- ^ '^'^^^' ' I l^^ve betrayed
W^nen-nt'^^p"/"'^ ??V' "'^'"^^ "P' ^"^ ^'^^' something
\Miispenng, Betrayed! betrayed Mitin! Alitin betraved''
wishTn f'nll' T h^""^'"ation, but cannot help listening. 'l
wish to fall asleep, I cannot. I wish not to think and can-
no cease. That is terrible! " and as Shousola 'spoke she
fo.lr'h' '""^ "'Tu ^""'J'"^' ^"^ t^^i^ted and untw?sted he
lock of hair round her finger
shouVdel^"' '^'''' ^' '^'"''" '''" "^°*^^^^ '^^^' touching her
But Shoustova could not stop herself.
It is all the more terrible " she beean ap-iin hm-
chd not finish, and jumping up with a cry rufhed o^ut of the
Her mother turned to follow her.
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" They ought to be hanged, the rascals ! " said the school-
boy who was sitting on the window-sill.
"What's that?" said the mother.
"I only said Oh, it's nothing," the schoolboy
answered, and taking a cigarette that lay on the table, he
began to smoke.
4
Hi
til
I i
'11
id the school-
le schoolboy
the table, he
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iA'dia's aunt.
" Yes, that solitary confinement is terrible for the youni:^,"
said the aunt, shaking her head and also lighting a cigarette.
I' I should say for every one," Nekhludoff replied.
" No, not for all," answered the aunt. " For the real rev-
olutionists, I have been told, it is rest and quiet. A man
who IS wanted by the police lives in continual anxiety,
material want, and fear for himself and others, and for h'is
cause, and at last, when lie is taken up and it is all over, and
all responsibility is ofif his shoulders, he can sit and rest. I
have been told they actually feel joyful when taken up. But
the young and innocent (they always first arrest the inno-
cent, hke Lydia), for them the first shock is terrible. It is
not that they deprive you of freedom ; and the bad food and
bad air— all that is nothing. Three times as many priva-
tions would be easily borne if it were not for the moral
shock when one is first taken."
" Have you experienced it ? "
" I ? I was twice in prison," she answered, with a sad,
gentle smile. " When I was arrested for the first time I had
done nothing. I was 22, had a child, and was expecting
another. Though the loss of freedom and the parting with
my child and husband were hard, they were nothing when
compared with what I felt when I foun.! ut that I had
ceased being a human creature and had become a thing. I
wished to say good-bye to my little daughter. I was told to
go and get into the trap. I asked where I was being taken
to. The answer was that I should know when I got there.
I asked what I was accused of, but got no reply. After I
had been examined, and after they had undressed me and
put numbered prison clothes on me, they led me to a vault,
opened a door, pushed me in, and left me alone ; a sentinel,'
with a loaded gun, paced up and down in front of my door,
and every now and then looked in through a crack— I felt
terribly depressed. What struck me most at the time was
that the gendarme officer who examined me offered me a
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cigarette. So lie knew that people liked smoking, and must
know that they liked freedom and light ; and that mothers
love their children, antl children their mothers. Then how
could they tear me pitilessly from all that was dear to me,
and lock me up in prison like a wild animal? That sort of
thing could not be borne without evil effects. Any one who
believes in God and men, and believes that men love one
another, will cease to believe it after all that. I have ceased
to believe in humanity since then, and have grown embit-
tered," she finished, with a smile.
Shoustova's mother came in at the door through which
her daughter had gone out, and said that Lydia was very
much upset, and would not come in again.
" And what has this young life been ruined for? " said the
aunt. " What is especially painful to me is that I am the
involuntary cause of it."
" She will recover in the country, with God's help," said
the mother. " We shall send her to her father."
" Yes, if it were not for you she would have perished al-
together," said the aunt. " Thank you. But what I wished
to see you for is this : I wished to ask you to take a letter to
Vera Doukhova," and she got the letter out of her pocket.
" The letter is not closed ; you may read and tear it up, or
hand it to her, according to how far it coincides with your
principles," she said. " It contains nothing compromising."
Nekhludofif took the letter, and, having promised to give
it to Vera Doukhova, he took his leave and went away. He
sealed the letter without reading it, meaning to take it to its
destination.
:. i
inp, and must
that mothers
s. Then how
s dear to me,
Tliat sort of
Any one who
men love one
I have ceased
grown enibit-
irough which
'dia was very
or? " said the
hat I am the
I's help," said
e perished al-
vhat I wished
ike a letter to
)f her pocket,
tear it up, or
les with your
iipromising."
mised to give
mt away. He
> take it to its
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CHAPTER XXVn.
THK STATE CIIUKCII AND THR PROPLE.
The last thing that kept Nckhludoff in Petersburg was
the case of the sectarians, whose petition he intended to get
his former fellow-officer, Aide-de-camp Bogatyreff, to hand
to the Tsar He came to Bogatyreff in the morning, and
found hun about to go out, though still at breakfast. Boga-
tvreff was not tall, but firmly built and wonderfully strong
(he could bend a horseshoe), a kind, honest, straight, and
even liberal man. In spite of these qualities, he was intimate
at Lourt. and very fond of the Tsar and his familv, and bv
some strange method he managed, while living in that high-
est circle to see nothing but the good in it and to take no
part in the evil and corruption. He never condemned anv-
body nor any measure, and either kept silent or spoke in'a
bold, loud voice, almost shouting what he had to sav, and
often laughing in the same boisterous manner. And he did
not do it for diplomatic reasons, but because such was his
character.
" Ah, that's right that you have come. Would you like-
some breakfast ? Sit down, the beefsteaks are fine ! I alwavs
u^l1'yu^.'°.'^r!,'''",^ substantial— begin and finish, too.
Ha! ha! ha! Well, then, have a glass of wine," he shouted,
pointing to a decanter of claret. " I have been thinking of
you. I vvill hand on the petition. I shall put it into his own
hands. You may count on that, only it occurred to me that
it would be best for you to call on Toporoff."
Nekhludoff made a wry face at the mention of Toporoff
A J I ^^Pf"^s o" him. He will be consulted, anyhow.
And perhaps he mav himself meet your wishes."
"^ If you advise it I shall go."
" That's right. Well, and how does Petersburg agree with
you?" shouted Bogatyreff. " Tell me. Eh?"
;|I feel myself getting hypnotised," replied Nekhludoff.
, Hypnotised ! Bogatyreff repeated, and burst out laugh-
ing You wont have anything? Well, just as vou please."
and he wiped his moustaches with his napkin. "Then you'll
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go? Eh? If he does not do it, give the petition to me, and
I shall hand it on to-morrow." Shouting these words, he
rose, crossed himself just as naturally as he had wiped his
mouth, and began buckling on his sword.
" And now good-bye ; I must go. We are both going out,"
said Nekhludoff, and shaking Bogatyreff's strong, broad
hand, and with the sense of pleasure which the impression of
something healthy and unconsciously fresh always gave him,
Nekhludoff parted from Bogatyreffon the door-steps.
Though he expected no good result from his visit, still
Nekhludoff, following Bogatyreff's advice, went to see To-
poroff, on whom the sectarians' fate depended.
The position occupied by Toporoff, involving as it did an
incongruity of purpose, could only be held by a dull man
devoid of moral sensibility. Toporoff possessed both these
negative qualities. The incongruity of the position he oc-
cupied was this : It was his duty to keep up and to defend,
by external measures, not excluding violence, that Church
which, by' its own declaration, was established by God Him-
self and could not be shaken by the gates of hell nor by any-
thing human. This divine and immutable God-established
institution had to be sustained and defended by a human in-
stitution—the Holy Synod, managed by Toporoff and his
officials. Toporoff did not see this contradiction, nor did
he wish to see it, and he was therefore much concerned lest
some Romish priest, some pastor, or some sectarian should
destroy that Church which the gates of hell could not con-
quer.
Toporoff, like all those who are quite destitute of the fun-
damental religious feeling that recognises the equality and
brotherhood of men, was fully convinced that the common
people were creatures entirely different from himself, and
that the people needed what he could very well do without,
for at the bottom of his heart he believed in nothing, and
found such a state very convenient and pleasant. Yet he
feared lest the people might also come to such a state, and
looked upon it as his sacred duty, as he called it, to save the
people therefrom.
A certain cookery book declares that some crabs like to be
boiled alive. In the same way he thought and spoke as if
the people liked being kept in superstition; only he meant
this in a literal sense, whereas the cookery book did not mean
its words literally.
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tion to me, and
hese words, he
had wiped his
oth going out,"
strong, broad
e impression of
ways gave him,
or-steps.
his visit, still
^ent to see To-
l.
ng as it did an
by a dull man
ised both these
position he oc-
and to defend,
e, that Church
I by God Him-
ell nor by any-
jod-established
)y a human in-
poroff and his
iction, nor did
concerned lest
;ctarian should
could not con-
ute of the fun-
e equality and
it the common
1 himself, and
ell do without,
1 nothing, and
isant. Yet he
:h a state, and
it, to save the
Tabs like to be
nd spoke as if
anly he meant
< did not mean
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I
Kasan aL%"S Vk MXt^o? God IT? "' *^ ''"''"■
t.on, but the people liked it and beHevedl^ttTd tSf''"
the superstition must be kept up ' 'herefore
waYi^^Yu-s^rd'; ,ti -'-f, i^^^rh"i^' -^"p-^*
cratic ladv, who was so J!rii"^'hr ""'.'' ?^ ""'' "'''°-
o„K.AroL;al wt°wL7f„H' ^"*-'^"s»n -forced
rang, anil o^Skhl^d^ff "i: ^'-'atjl'"™ °" ""= '^".e,
pettrf?or.^ti;rfjs^'^i:';;3r:rrhL^''Th''^VY''-^
s^:ed-srn\'-d€^H^^^^^
"ce . ne nad at that time hesitated whether he had
it
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not better put a stop to it. But then he thought no harm
could result from his confirming the decision to separate and
exile the different members of the sectarian families, whereas
allowing the peasant sect to remain where it was might have
a bad effect on the rest of the inhabitants of the place and
cause them to fall away from Orthodoxy. And then the
affair also proved the zeal of the Archdeacon, and so he let
the case proceed along the lines it had taken. But now that
they had a defender such as Nekhludoff, who had some in-
fluence in Petersburg, the case might be specially pointed out
to the Emperor as something cruel, or it might get into the
foreign papers. Therefore he at once took an unexpected
decision.
" How do you do ? " he said, with the air of a very busy
man, receiving Nekhludoff standing, and at once starting on
the business. " I know this case. As soon as I saw the
names I recollected this unfortunate business," he said, tak-
ing up the petition and showing it to Nekhludoff. " And I
am much indebted to you for reminding me of it. It is the
over-zealousness of the provincial authorities."
Nekhludoff stood silent, looking with no kindly feelings
at the immovable, pale mask of a face before him.
" And I shall give orders that these measures should he
revoked and the people reinstated in their homes."
" So that I need not make use of this petition ? "
" / promise you most assuredly," answered Toporoff,
laying a stress on the word I, as if quite convinced that his
honesty, his word was the best guarantee. " It will be best
if I write at once. Take a seat, please."
He went up to the table and began to write. As Nekh-
ludoff sat down he looked at the narrow, bald skull, at the
fat, blue-veined hand that was swiftly guiding the pen, and
wondered why this evidently indifferent man was doing
what he did and vdiy he was doing it with such care.
" Well, here you are," said Toporoff, sealing the en-
velope ; " you may let your clients know," and he stretched
his lips to imitate a smile.
" Then what did these people suffer for ? " Nekhludoff
asked, as he took the envelope.
Toporoff raised his head and smiled, as if Nekhludoff's
question gave him pleasure. " That I cannot tell. All I
can say is that the interests of the people guarded by us are
so important that too great a zeal in matters of religion is
lought no harm
I to separate and
amilies, whereas
was might have
)f the place and
And then the
tn, and so he let
. But now that
ho had some in-
ially pointed out
ght get into the
: an unexpected
• of a very busy
once starting on
•n as I saw the
;s," he said, tak-
ludoff. " And I
of it. It is the
> kindly feelings
; him.
.sures should he
omes."
tion?"
vered Toporofif,
nvinced that his
" It will be best
rite. As Nekh-
•ald skull, at the
ng the pen, and
man was doing
uch care,
sealing the en-
ind he stretched
r?" Nekhludoff
if Nekhludoff's
inot tell. All I
larded by us are
jrs of religion is
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n^'l%tTn~ ^° '^^"^"^ '' ^^^ -^'ff— which is
Nekhludoff could say he would have considered very |rettv
view ,t appears m a rather different light. However I must
from hp7 tT^'"" f V^'^ information as they required
^^u u P transgressed agamst ustice or behaved unlaw
sinng a constitution, were a real hindrance. It seemed ne?"
fectly clear to Nekhludoff that all these officials Snin^
with his aunt's husband, the Senators, and Top;r6ff^ down
n tmnt^rrnr'''' ^^"^'^"^" ^'^^ sat°'a?The' tlbre^
,..., 1 "^ °^ things the innocent had to suffer hut-
50 that the rule that ten guilty should escape rather than
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that one innocent should be condemned was not observed,
but, on the contrary, for the sake of getting rid of one really
dangerous person, ten who seemed dangerous were pun-
ished, as, when cutting a rotten piece out of anything, one
has to cut away some that is good.
This explanation seemed very simple and clear to Nekh-
ludoflf ; but its very simplicity and clearness made him hesi-
tate to accept it. Was it possible that so complicated a
phenomenon could have so simple and terrible an explana-
tion? Was it possible that all these words about justice, law,
religion, and God, and so on, were mere words, hiding the
coarsest cuj^idity and cruelty?
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id of one really
ous were pun-
: anything, one
clear to Nekh-
nade him hesi-
complicated a
)le an explana-
)ut justice, law,
rds, hiding the
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE MEANING OF MARIETTE's ATTRACTION.
Nekhludoff would have left Petersburg on the evening
of he same day, but he had promised Mariette to niJet he?
at the theatre, and though he knew that he ought not to
keep that promise, he deceived himself into the belief that
It would not be right to break his word.
Am I capable of withstanding these temptations ? " he
as^ecl himself, not quite honestly. " I shall try for the last
fh^f "^T^^^ '1 ^'^ ^""^"^"^ ^'ot'^es' a"d arrived at the
theatre during the second act of the eternal Dame aur
Camelias, in which a foreign actress once again, and in a
novel manner, showed how women die of consumption
The theatre was quite full. Mariette's box was at once
and with great deference, shown to Nekhludoff at his re-
quest. A livened servant stood in the corridor outside • he
Koro^t'tr ^' '° °™ -"°"' "^ ''-- -^ °P"-^
All the people who sat and stood in the boxes on the op-
posite side, those who sat near and those who were in the
parterre, with their grey, grizzly, bald, or curly heads-all
vvere absorbed in watching the thin, bony actress who
dressed in silks and laces, was wriggling before them, and
speaking in an unnatural voice.
Some one called " Hush ! " when the door opened, and
iSff's^a'^e' °"^ *^^ °^^^'' °^ ^°*' ^''" ^^"^^^"^ ^^^'^-
Mariette and a lady whom he did not know, with a red
cape and a big heavy head-dress, were in the box. and two
men also, Mariette's husband the General, a tall, handsome
^nH . ;^ severe inscrutable countenance, a Roman nose,
and a imform padded round the chest, and a fair man, with
a bit of shaved chin between pompons whiskers
Mariette, graceful, slight, elegant, her low-necked dress
Showing her firm, shapely, slanting shoulders, with a little
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black mole where they joined her neck, immediately turned,
and pointed with her face to a chair behind her in an engag-
ing manner, and smiled a smile that seemed full of meaning
to Nekhludoflf.
The husband looked at him in the quiet way in which he
did everything, and bowed. In the look he exchanged with
his wife, the master, the owner of a beautiful woman, was
to be seen at once.
When the monologue was over the theatre resounded
with the clapping of hands. Mariette rose, and holding up
her rustling silk skirt, went into the back of the box and in-
troduced Nekhludoff to her husbcnd.
The General, without ceasing to smile with his eyes, said
he was very pleased, and then sat inscrutably silent.
" I ought to have left to-day, had I not promised," said
Nekhludoflf to Mariette.
" If you do not care to see me," said Mariette, in answer
to what his words implied, " you will see a wonderful ac-
tress. Was she not splendid in the last scene? " she asked,
turning to her husband.
The husband bowed his head.
" This sort of thing does not touch me," said Nekhludoflf.
" I have seen so much real sufifering lately that "
" Yes, sit down and tell me."
The husband listened, his eyes smaling more and more
ironically. " I have been to see that woman whom they
have set free, and who has been kept in prison for so long ;
she is quite broken down."
"That is the woman I spoke to you about," Mariette
said to her husband.
" Oh, yes, I was very pleased that she could be set free,"
said the husband quietly, nodding and smiling under his
moustache with evident irony, so it seemed to Nekhludoff.
" I shall go and have a smoke."
Nekhludoflf sat waiting to hear what the something was
that Mariette had to tell him. She said nothing, and did
not even try to say anything, but joked and spoke about
the performance, which she thought ought to touch Nekhlu-
doflf. Nekhludoflf saw that she had nothing to tell, but
only wished to show herself to him in all the splendour of
her evening toilet, with her shoulders and little mole; and
this was pleasant and yet repulsive to him.
The charm that had veiled all this sort of thing from
diately turned,
iT in an engag-
uU of meaning
ay in which he
xchanged with
il woman, was
itre resounded
md holding up
he box and in-
1 his eyes, said
silent,
iromised," said
ette, in answer
wonderful ac-
e? " she asked,
lid Nekhliidoff.
hat "
lore and more
an whom they
Dn for so long ;
lOUt," Mariette
Id be set free,"
ling under his
to Nekhludoff.
something was
thing, and did
id spoke about
touch Nekhlii-
ig to tell, but
le splendour of
ittle mole; and
of thing from
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Nekhludoff was not removed, but it was as if he could see
what lay beneath. Looking at Mariette, he admired her
and yet he knew that she was a liar, living with a husband
w-ho was makmg his career by means of the tears and lives
of hundreds and hundreds of people, and that she was quite
indifferent about it, and that all she had said the day before
was untrue. What she wanted— neither he nor she knew
why— was to make him fall in love with her. This both
attracted and disgusted him. Several times, on the point of
going away, he took up his hat, and then stayed on.
But at last, when the husband returned with a strong
smell of tobacco in his thick moustache, and looked at Nekh-
lu Jott vvith a patronising, contemptuous air, as if not recos"-
msing him, Nekhludoff left the box before the door vvfs
closed again, found his overcoat, and went out of the theatre
As he was walking home along the Nevski, he could not
help noticing a well-shaped and aggressively finelv-dressed
woman, who was quietly walking in front of him along the
broad asphalt pavement. The consciousness of her detest-
able power was noticeable in her face and the whole of her
xSin ' 1 i "^^1? "?^i °' P^''^^ ^'^^t ^^o"ian looked at her.
Nekhludoff walked faster than she did and, involuntarily,
also looked her in the face. The face, which was probably
painted, was handsome, and the woman looked at him with
N/Jl^lL.^i^ 'iT' sparkled. And, curiously enough,
NekhludoiT was suddenly reminded of Mariette, because he
tTelTre ^"'^"^""^ ^""^ disgusted just as when in the
Having hurriedly passed her, Nekhludoff turned off on
to the Morskaya and passed on to the embankment, where
Jhe p'avemenr ^ P°^''""^^"' ^^ ^^S^" P^^^ng "P and down
" The other one gave me just such a smile when I entered
the theatre," he thought, " and the meaning of the mile
Dlain Iv '?r'- ^^! °"^^ f'^''''''' '''' t'^^t t^^i« one Tai^
plainly. If you want mo, take me ; if not, go your wav ' and
he other one pretended that she was not^hSng of this
but living in some high and ref. . state, while this was
really at the root Besides, this one was driven to it by
necessity, while the other amused herself by playing with
tla enchanting, disgusting, frightful passion. This woman
ut the street Nvas like stagnant, smelling water offered to
those whose thirst was greater than their disgust; that other
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one in the theatre was Uke the poison which, unnoticed,
poisons everything it gets into."
Nekhludoff recalled his liaison with the Marechal's wife,
and shameful memories rose before him.
" The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting,"
thought he, " but as long as it remains in its naked form
we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and
despise it; and — whether one has fallen or resisted—one
remains what one was before. But when that same animal-
ism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and
demands our worship— then we are swallowed up by it com-
pletely, and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing
good from evil. Then it is awful."
Nekhludoff perceived all this now as clearly as he saw
the palace, the sentinels, the fortress, the river, the boats,
and the Stock Exchange. And just as on this northern
summer night there was no restful darkness on the earth,
but only 9 dismal, dull light coming from an invisible source,
so in Nekhludoflf's soul there was no longer the restful
darkness, ignorance. Everything seemed clear. It was clear
that everything considered important and good was insig-
nificant and repulsive, and that all the glamour and luxury
hid the old, well-known crimes, which not only remained
unpunished but were adorned with all the splendour which
men were capable of inventing.
Nekhludofif wished to forget all this, not to see it, but
he could no longer help seeing it. Though he could not
see the source of the light which revealed it to him any more
than he could see the source of the light which lay over
Petersburg; and though the light appeared to him dull,
dismal, and unnatural, yet he could not help seeing what
it revealed, and he felt both joyful and anxious.
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;h, unnoticed,
irechal's wife,
is disgusting,"
s naked form
itual life and
resisted — one
same animal-
ic feeling and
up by it com-
distinguishing
rly as he saw
fer, the boats,
this northern
on the earth,
ivisible source,
er the restful
r. It was clear
)od was insig-
ur and luxury
only remained
lendour which
to see it, but
he could not
him any more
vhich lay over
I to him dull,
p seeing what
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CHAPTER XXIX.
" FOR HER SAKE AND FOR GOD's."
On his return to Moscow Nekhludoff went at once to
the prison hospital to bring Maslova the sad news that the
benate had confirmed the decision of the Court, and that
she must prepare to go to Siberia. He had little hope of
the success of his petition to the Emperor, which the advo-
cate had written for him, and which he now brought with
him for Maslova to sign. And, strange to say, he did not
at present even wish to succeed; he had got used to the
thought of going to Siberia and living among the exiled
and the convicts, and he could not easily picture to himself
how his life and Maslova's would shape if she were ac-
quitted. He remembered the thought of the American
writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in
America said that "under a government that imprisons
any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Nekhludoff, especially after his visit to Petersburg and all
he discovered there, thought in the same way.
Yes, the only place befitting an honest man in Russia
fu . i.P'"^^^"^ I'^^M ^ P"son," he thought, and even felt
that this applied to him personally, when he drove up to the
prison and entered its walls.
The doorkeeper recognised Nekhludoff, and told him at
once that Maslova was no longer there.
"Where is she, then?"
" In the ceil again."
'' Why has she been removed? " Nekhludoff asked.
Oh, your excellency, what are such people?" said the
doorkeeper contemptuously. " She's been carrying on with
xt"^ ut'^* assistant, so the head doctor ordered her back "
Nekhludoff had had no idea how near Maslova and the
state of her mind were to him. He was stunned by the news.
He felt as one feels at the news of a great and unforeseen
mistortune, and his pam was very severe. His first feeling
was one of shame. He, with his joyful idea of the change
that he imagined was going on in her soul, now seemed
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ridiculous in his own eyes. He thought that all her pretence
of not wishing to accept his sacrifice, all the reproaches and
tears, were only the devices of a depraved woman, who
wished to use him to the best advantage. He seemed to
remember having seen signs of obduracy at his last interview
with her. All this flashed through his mind as he instinc-
tively put on his hat and left the hospital.
" What am I to do now ? Am I still bound to her? Has
this action of hers not set me free ? " And as he put these
questions to himself he knew at once that if he considered
himself free, and threw her up, he would be punishing him-
self, and not her, which was what he wished to do, and he
was seized with fear.
" No, what has happened cannot alter — it can only
strengthen my resolve. Let her do what flows from the state
her mind is in. If it is carrying on with the medical assist-
ant, let her carry on with the medical assistant ; that is her
business. I must do what my conscience demands of me.
And my tonscience expects me to sacrifice my freedom.
My resolution to marry her, if only in form, and to follow
wherever she may be sent, remains unalterable." Nekhludoflf
said all this to himself with vicious obstinacy as he left the
hospital and walked with resolute steps towards the big
gates of the prison. He asked the warder on duty at the
gate to inform the inspector that he wished to see Maslova.
The warder knew NekhludofT, and told him of an important
change that had taken place in the prison. The old inspector
had been discharged, and a new, very severe official ap-
pointed in his place.
" They are so strict nowadays, it's just awful," said the
jailer. " He is in here ; they will let him know directly."
The new inspector was in the prison and soon came to
Nekhludoff. He was a tall, angular man, with high cheek
bones, morose, and very slow in his movements.
" Interviews are allowed in the visiting roorn on the ap-
pointed days," he said, without looking at Nekhludoflf.
But I have a petition to the Emperor, which I want
signed."
" You can give it to me."
" I must see the prisoner myself. I was alwavs allowed to
before."
" That was so. before," said the inspector, with a furtive
glance at Nekhludoflf.
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lufl'ny'^nH f.^^""?u°" ^'■?" ^''^ governor." insisted Nckh-
. .. A ;, ^' ^°°^ °"* ^'s pocket-book.
XT . ui'^J^^'" ^^'^ *^e inspector, takinir the oaoer from
Nekhludoff with his long, dr -. whi'te finge^rs onTe fir o^
vvh.ch was a gold ring, still without looking him in the
please." """"^ '^'' ^'^'' ^'°^'^>'- " ^^ep into the office!
bvThe'tabTe\n!'fh°'^'' """5 ""P*-^- '^^' '"^P^^t^'- «at down
by the table and bepan sorting some papers that lay on it evi-
dently mtending to be present at the mterview. ^ '
When Nekhludoflf asked whether he might see the political
could"not'''"rr''- '''' '"^?^^^°^ ^"^--^^' shortlJ.C he
icov^^eVaTdt^jfrS.^ °^-- ^^ ^^^ pl Jfaite^.^
h™^"""" ,'^^?'?™ ^"'"f<l the room the inspector raised his
Sed " You""' 'TU"? =" r*" "^^ orVl<hl4doff rl
mL, ' u , " "^y '^"'' »"d went on sorting liis naoers
on wL "L"^'" *' "'^'" '=•*«' petticoat IndkSef
bok The bt'h'r' "P, 'f '"^•^'tWudoff and saw his cold, harj
dSe^^r^s' Cr '° ''^'"'■"''°«'' -«™'".he"hos^S
Nekhludoflf had meant to treat her in the same wav as be
^Susti^r^ ^° ^'^^^ hands^^^hV/r.^:.
voice ^u^tho^tTnl^^" bad news," he said, in a monotonous
sSe has ?efu!eS ''"^ '' '" '^ ^^'^"^ ^^^ ^-^- " ^he
"I kneNv it wouid," she said, in a strange tone as if she
were gaspmg for breath. ^ ' ^"^
Formerly Nekhludoff would have asked whv she said she
knew It would; now he only looked at her Her eves were
full of tears. But this did Lt soften him i it rouse^d hi^ir
ntation agamst her even more
roorn." '"'^'''°' '°'' ^"^ ^'^^" P"^'"^ "P ^"d down the
men", 't^ °^ '^ "^l'^""* Nekhludoff was feeling at the mo-
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■* Vou must not despair,' le said. "The petition to the
Ejnp' roT nia ,' meet with sir>^ '^ss, and T hope— — ■"
•' i rn not thinking oi that," .she said, looking piteously at
him \v\xh (icf 'VPt, squinting eyes.
"\yhat is u, r^ien?"
" You have been to tlie hospital, and they have most likely
told you about me "
"What of that? That is your affair," said Nekhludoff
coldly, and frowned. The cruel feeling of wounded pride
that had quieted down rose with renewed force when she
mentioned the hospital.
" He. a man of the world, whom any girl of the best fam-
ilies would think it happiness to marry, offered himself as a
husband to this woman, and she could not even wait, but be-
gan intriguing with the medical assistant," thought he, with
a look of hatred.
" Here, sign this petition," he said, taking a large envelope
from his pocket, and laying the paper on the table. She
wiped the tears with a corner of her kerchief, and asked
vhat to write and where.
He showed her. and she sat down and arranged the cuff of
her right sleeve with her left hand ; he stood behind her, and
silently looked at her back, which shook with suppressed
emotion, and evil and good feelings were fighting in his
breast — feelings of wounded pride "and of pity for her who
was suffering — and the last feeling was victorious.
He could not remember which came first ; did the pity for
her first enter his heart, or did he first remember his own
sins — his own repulsive actions, the very same for which he
was condemning her? Anyhow, he both felt himself guilty
and pitied her.
Having signed the petition and wiped her inky finger on
her petticoat, she got up and looked at him.
" Whatever happens, whatever comes of it, my resolve re-
mains unchanged." said Nekhludoff. The thought that h.
had forgiven her heightened his feeling of pitv and tender-
ness for her, and he wished to comfort her. " I will do what
I have said ; wherever they take you I shall be with you."
" WHiat's tbc use?" she' interrupted hurriedly, though her
whole face ligi -d up.
" Think what ^ ■ ill v-'imt on the way."
" I don't kno v . . "n/H-rjg in particular, thank you."
The inspectc ?• ^-^r j i.-»p, and wi^'-out waiting for a remark
s
ctition to the
f piteously at
^e most likely
1 Nekhludoff
Dunded pride
•ce when she
the best fam-
1 himself as a
wait, but be-
Light he, with
irge envelope
2 table. She
f, and asked
ed the cuff of
hind her, and
h suppressed
hting in his
for her who
)US.
i the pity for
iber his own
for which he
limself guilty
iky finger on
ly resolve re-
lught that he
r and tender-
will do what
with you."
r, though her
ik you."
for a remark
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from h.m NekhUidoff took leave, and went out with peace
joy. and love towards everybodv in his heart such a 1^1^
never felt before. The certaint'y that no actio of MTslo;^a
could change his bve for her filled him with joy and raisS
h.m to a level which he had never before atta ned LeriTer
"Jtngue with the nialical assistant; that was he business
He loved her not for his own but for her sake and for Go r!
And this mtng„e, for which Maslova was turned out of
the hospital, and .f which Nekhliidoff believed she was
real y guilty, consisted of the following-
fr^m^' °/ r ''"''" '""^ ^y !^'' ^''^'^ ""'■^^" t° ^et some herb tea
from .1. dispensary at the end of the corridor, and there all
a one, sne found the medical assistant, a tal man whh a
trv iW^tn'"'; ^'^^ ^'/ K"" ''^"^ ^^"^^ ^^^^ botheHng her In
tffie knfcL7.y ^"1 ^''"- ^^^'^^^ S^^' h'"^ «"^h a push
tip. ?.n ^ K^ " ^^^? ^^^^"^* ^ shelf, from which two hot-
es fell and broke The head doctor, who was pass.L at
that moment, heard the sound of breaking glass, and Iw
Maslova run out, quite red, and shouted to ifer :
c« /" ' ^i ^*^°^ woman, if you start intriguing here I'll
send you about your business. What is the meanfng of it' "
hfJnvl v' ^^^'^^^re^ *^he medical assistant, and K ngat
nim over his spectacles. ^
The assistant smiled, and began to justify himself The
doctor gave no heed to him, but, lifting his head so that he
now looked through his spectacles, he entered the ward He
told he inspector the same day to send another more sedate
trieue'" wXV" ^^f.'^r'^P^'''- ^"^ '^'^' ^'-^ j'er • in!
trigue with the medical assistant.
fni^f '"f/"["^'^ °t."^ ^'"' ^ ^°^^ intrigue was particularly pain-
ful to Maslova because the relations with men, whiclfhad
long been repulsive to her, had become speciali; disgust^hie
after meeting Nekhludoff. The thought that, judgfng he?
by her past and present position, every man, the blotchy as-
sistant , niong them, considered he had a right to off nd her
and \yas surprised at her refusal, hurt her deeply and made
her pity herself and brought tears to her eyes ^ ^'
When she went out. to Nekhludoff this time she wished to
Terse f.\lf!ul'^!:f?/^°"V ,^^"^ ^' ^^^" '^^ ^egan to justify
vvoulr -Hv f ^^'^ T ^'''''^" ^'^'' ^"^ that her eicuses
she was s em '"^"''" ^^u.picions; tears choked her, and
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Maslova still thought and continued to persuade herself
that she had never forgiven him, and hated him, as she told
him at their second interview, but in reality she loved him
again, and loved him so that she did all he w^ished her to do ;
left off drinking, smoking, coquetting, and entered the hos-
pital because she knew he wished it. And if every time he
reminded her of it, she refused so decidedly to accept his
sacrifice and marry him, it was because she liked repeating
the proud words she had once uttered, and because she
knew that a marriage with her would be a misfortune for
him.
She had resolutely made up her mind that she would not
accept his sacrifice, and yet the thought that he despised
her and believed that she still was what she had been, and
did not notice the change that had taken place in her, was
very painful. That he could still think she had done wrong
while in the hospital tormented her more than the news that
her sentence was confirmed.
iuade herself
1, as she told
le loved him
;d her to do ;
;red the hos-
very time he
:o accept his
ed repeating
because she
isfortune for
le would not
he despised
id been, and
; in her, was
done wrong
he news that
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CHAPTER XXX.
THE ASTONISHING INSTITUTION CALLED CRIMINAL LAW.
MAsLOVAmightbe sent off with the first gang of prisoners
therefore Nekhludoff got ready for his deplrtu^re Bm there
was so much to be done that he felt that he could not finish
It however much time he might have. It was qu te d f.
SedTln'rTf^^"' '' ^'^ ^''''- ^^'"^''^y he used to be
wavf ren^riT • °' ^" ^^^^P^^ion, the interest of which al-
Sff ?n? ;"r^ Pu''°"' '•'•' ^"^^*" Ivdnovitch Nekh-
cen^^eU Jl K ' *''°"^'' ^^''^ '""^^'^'^ ^^ ^is life was thus
centred, all these occupations were very wearisome. Now
IvWhch^'anT:.''''*'^ '" "t,^^.'' P^^P'^ ^"^ "°^ t- Dmitri
^ndTprf ' *^7 "^T ^" interesting and attractive,
and there was no end to them. Nor was this all. Formerly
Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhludoff 's occupations always made
^a'eof mYnd'^Tl^^r^''^^' "°" *^'^ produced 'a joyful
state ot mind. The business at present occupying Nekhlu-
doff could be divided under three headings^^ I?e himsdf
with his usual pedantry, divided it in that way, and acTord-
Tot. T.'^.' Pf P^r '•^^i^""^ *° ''' ^" th^^e different port-
folios The first referred to Maslova, and was chiefly that
to .nH ! '"'P- '° PS^"' P^'^'^°" *° the Emperor attended
to, and preparing for her probable journey to Siberia
. 1 he second was about his estates. In Panovo he had
given the land to the peasants on condition of their payiW
rent to be put to their own communal use. But he had to
confirm this transaction by a legal deed, and to make l^s
will, m accordance with it. In Kousminski the state of
thmgs was still as he had first arranged it, i.e., he was to re-
r^Zl th/,f;^"t= ^"t ?e terms had to l.e fixed and also how
much o the money he would use to live on, and how much
he would eave for the peasants' use. As he did not know
decile A r""S-'" ^'^""^ r'^''^ ''''' ^^""' he could no!
decide to lose this revenue altogether, though he reduced
the income from it by half. icuulcu
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The third part of his business was to help the convicts,
who applied more and more often to him. At first when he
came in contact with the prisoners, and they appealed to
him for help, he at once began interceding for them, hoping
to lighten their fate, but he soon had so many applications
that he felt the impossibility of attending to all of them, and
that naturally led him to take up another piece of work,
which at last roused his interest even more than the three
first. This new part of his business was finding an answer
to the following questions : What was this astonishing in-
stitution called criminal law, of which the results were that
in the prison, with some of the inmates of which he had
lately become acquainted, and in all those other places of
confinement, from the Peter and Paul Fortress in Peters-
burg to the island of Sakhalin, hundreds and thousands of
victims were pining? What did this strange criminal law
exist for? How had it originated?
From his personal relations with the prisoners, from
notes by some of those in confinement, and by questioning
the advocate and the prison priest, Nekhludoflf came to the
conclusion that the convicts, the so-called criminals, could
be divided into five classes. The first were quite innocent
people, condemned by judicial blunder. Such were the
Menshofifs, supposed to be incendiaries, Maslova, and others.
There were not many of these; according to the priest's
^yords, only seven per cent., but their condition excited par-
ticular interest.
To the second class belong persons condemned for ac-
tions done under peculiar circumstances, i.e., in a fit of pas-
sion, jealousy, or drunkenness, circumstances under which
those who judged them would surely have committed the
same actions.
The third class consisted of people punished for having
committed actions which, according to their understanding,
were quite natural, and even good, but which those other
people, the men who made the laws, • considered to be
crimes. Such were the persons who sold spirits without a
hcense, smugglers ; those who gathered grass and wood on
large estates and in the forests belonging to the Crown ; the
thieving miners ; and those unbelieving people who robbed
churches.
To the fourth class belonged those who were imprisoned
only because they stood morally higher than the average
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the convicts,
first when he
^ appealed to
them, hoping
r applications
of them, and
ece of work,
lan the three
ig an answer
tonishing in-
ilts were that
/hich he had
ler places of
ss in Peters-
thousands of
criminal law
soners, from
' questioning
came to the
ninals, could
lite innocent
ch were the
I, and others.
the priest's
excited par-
ined for ac-
a fit of pas-
under which
mmitted the
i for having
derstanding,
those other
ered to be
ts without a
nd wood on
Crown ; the
who robbed
imprisoned
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level of society Such were the Sectarians, the Poles th.^
the political prisoners, the Socialists, the strikers con
demned for withstanding the authorities Thl.l
cording to Nekhludofif's^ obL'Idon " a viry Tarr'p'er"
"est ofm'en"^"^ '° *'" ^^^"' ^"^^"^ them'sonTofTh;
The fifth class consisted of persons who had been far
more sinned against by society than they had sinned against
It. These were castaways, stupefied by continual ofofes
sion and temptation, such as the boy who had s o?en th^
rugs and hundreds of others whom Nekhlddoff had seen in
^V ,5,/ ."'^FS y"0"^ t^^e new school of criminology classifv
as the criminal type, and the existence of which is cons d
Trl ^ ^K^'^ chief proof of the necessity of criminal bw'
and punishment. This demoralised, depraved, Tnormd
SnT^hZ'^'"^ '? Nekhludoff, exactly the skme as tha
against whom society had sinned, only here societv hTh
anTftetthtr ^ ^^^^^^ ^^-' ^- ^^^^^ ^^^r^^
-^^"^^^^^^^^^^^ rs
a prostitute brought up in a doss-house, who up o the
Zrtl^''' had apparently never met with any 'one whose
i^tolLnd 'nfr' '•''' t ^ P^."^^'"^"' ^"^ ^vho had got
into a band of thieves when quite young. He was lifted
he LTh'''° u'""'">^ ^^"^^ °^ ^"'"°"''' by means o wh ch
prorecHon Tfj""^ ^"'■^''^"^- ^^ ^'^^^ Nekhludoff for
protection at the same time making fun of himself thl
lawyers the prison, and laws human fnd div?ne '
Another was the handsome Fedoroff, who. with a band
derTd r' u ^'^^"^ ^' ^1^ '^' ^h'^f' had robbed and mur^
dered an old man, an official. Fedoroff was a oeaslnt
atd^::h:r.t;^r^^li^,- ".^^^^^ f^
tress. He had a fascinating, passionate nature, that longed
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for enjoyment at any cost. He had never met anybody who
restrained himself for any cause whatever, and had never
heard a word about any aim in Hfe other than enjoyment.
Nekhludoff distinctly saw that both these men were richly
endowed by nature, but had been neglected and crippled like
uncared-for plants.
He had also met a tramp and a woman who had repelled
him by their dulncss and seeming cruelty, but even in them
he could find no trace of the criminal type written about by
the Italian school, but only saw in them people who were re-
pulsive to him personally, just in the same way as some he
had met outside the prison, in swallow-tail coats wearing
epaulettes, or bedecked with lace. And so the investigation
of the reasons why all these very diflFerent persons were put
in prison, while others just like them were going about free
and even judging them, formed a fourth task for Nekh-
ludoff,
He hoped to find an answer to this question in books, and
bought all that referred to it. He got the works of Lom-
broso, Garofalo, Ferry List, Maudsley, Tard, and read them
carefully. But as he read he became' more and more disap-
pointed. It happened to him as it always happens to those
who turn to science not in order to play a part in it, nor to
write, nor to dispute, nor to teach, but simply for an answer
to an every-day question of life. Science answered thousands
of different very subtle and ingenious questions touching
criminal law, but not the one he was trying to solve. He
asked a very simple question : " Why, and with what right,
do some people lock up, torment, exile, flog, and kill others,
while they are themselves just like those whom they torment,
flog, and kill ? " And in answer he got deliberations as to
whether human beings had free will or not. Whether signs
of criminality could be detected by measuring the skulls or
not. What part heredity played in crime. Whether immo-
rality could be inherited. What madness is, what degenera-
tion IS, and what temperament is. How climate, food, ig-
norance, imitativeness, hypnotism, or passion act. What so-
ciety is. What are its duties, etc., etc.
These disquisitions reminded him of the answer he once
got from a little boy whom he met coming home from school.
Nekhludoff asked him if he had learned his spelling.
" I have," answered the boy.
" Well, then, tell me, how do you spell ' leg' ? "
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nybody wha
1 had never
njoyment.
were richly
:rippled Hke
lad repelled
ven in them
en about by
ho were re-
as some he
its wearing
ivestigation
ns were put
^ about free
for Nekh-
books, and
ks of Lom-
1 read them
more disap-
;ns to those
in it, nor to
* an answer
1 thousands
IS touching
solve. He
what right,
kill others,
ey torment,
itions as to
lether signs
le skulls or
ther immo-
t degenera-
e, food, ig-
What so-
3^3
■L^ ^?K^ l^^' °^ "^^'^t '^'"^1 of leg?" the boy answered,
with a sly look.
Answers in the form of new questions, like the bov's, was
all Nekhludoflf got m reply to his one primarv question. He
tound much that was clever, learned much that was interest-
mg, but what he did not find was an answer to the principal
question : By what right some people punish others >
Not only did he not find any answer, but all the arguments
were brought forward in order to explain and vindicate pun-
^ -nTi^uI t^e necessity of which was taken as an axiom.
Nekhludoff read mu.h, but only in snatches, and putting
down his failure to this superficial way of reading, hoped to
find the answer later on. He would not allow himself to be-
lieve in the truth of the answer which began, more and more
often, to present itself to him.
|!|
Inn
:; f! h
rer he once
rom school.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
nekhludoff's sister and her husband.
The gang of prisoners, with Maslova among them, was to
start on the 5th July. Nekhludoff arranged to start on the
same day.
The day before, Nekhludoff's sister and her husband came
to town to see him.
Nekhludoff's sister, Nathalie Ivanovna Rogozhinsky, was
10 years older than her brother. She had been very fond
of him when he was a boy, and later on, just before her mar-
riage, they grew very close to each other, as if they were
equals, she being a young woman of 25, he a lad of 15. At
that time she was in love with his friend, Nikolenka Irten-
leff, since dead. They both loved Nikolenka, and loved in
him and in themselves that which is good, and which unites
all men. Since then they had both been depraved, he by mil-
itary service and a vicious life, she by marriage with a man
whom she loved with a sensual love, who did not care for
the things that had once been so dear and holy to her and
to her brother, nor even understand the meaning of those as-
pirations towards mora! perfection and the service of man-
kind, which once constituted her life, and put them down to
ambition and the wish to show off ; that being the only ex-
planation comprehensible to him.
Nathalie's husband had been a man without a name and
without means, but cleverly steering towards Liberalism or
Conservatism, according to which best suited his purpose, he
managed to make a comparatively brilliant judicial career.
Some peculiarity which made him attractive to women as-
sisted him when he was no longer in his first youth. While
travelling abroad he made Nekhludoff's acquaintance and
managed to make Nathalie, who was also no longer a girl,
fall in love with him, rather against her mother's wishes, who
considered a marriage with him to be a mesalliance for her
daughter. Nekhludoff, though he tried to hide it from him-
self, though he fought against it, hated his brother-in-law
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KSD.
them, was to
start on the
usband came
zhinsky, was
;n very fond
"ore her mar-
if they were
d of 15. At
)lenka Irten-
and loved in
which unites
d, he by mil-
with a man
not care for
r to her and
of those as-
;ice of man-
lem down to
the only ex-
a name and
iberahsm or
purpose, he
licial career.
women as-
luth. While
intance, and
»nger a girl,
wishes, who
ince for her
t from him-
)ther-in-law.
t^fvule^Htv'nl hi'T,? ""'"'T'^'^ '^^"^'■^'^ '^'"^ ^^^<^^"se of
tne vulgari y of his feehngs, his assurance and narrowness
but chiefly because of Nathalie, who managed tobve lim in
sp te of the narrowness of his nature, and loved him o se"
h^dte'n fn"he"r'"'' '"' '''''' '^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^" ^^^ ^-"tht
of \VtiT' ^"'•\^'eJ^J^J"doff to think of Nathalie as the wife
of that hairy self-assured man with the shiny bald Datch
on his head. He could not even master a feeling of revues on
towards their children, and when he heard that she vvas
flf.rh^r^ '° ^'^'' " ^^^y' ^' f^Jt something Hke or ow
hfs ^.n '^ ''"'' '"^J" '^^^" '"^^^t^^ ^'tl^ somf thing bad by
this man who was so foreign to him. The Rogo/hinskvs had
and Veiri ".T^h '^°"^' '^ '"^ '''' ^^^'^ twoXdren-': bov
best hnfil V M ° r '• ^""^ '*°PP"^ '" ^^^ ^^^t rooms of the
best hotel. Nathalie at once went to her mother's old house
bu hearing from Agraphena Petrovna that her brother had
ett, and was living in a lodging-house, she drove there The
dirty servant met her in the stuffy passage dark h,,V fr.rt
iTsCtt' '""^ ^'^" ^" '^^- ^^'""'- ttt'th^Vdice
Nathalie asked to be shown into his rooms, as she wished
to leave a note for him, and the man took her up
Nathalie carefully examined her brother's two little rooms
She noticed in everything the love of cleanliness and ordl;
she knew so well in him, and was struck by the novel sir^^
phcity of the surroundings. On his writing-table she saw
the paper-weight with the bronze dog on thi top which sh^
remembered; the tidy way in which his different poolos
and writing utensils were placed on the table was also fa-
miliar, and so was the large, crooked ivory paperl^^iife which
marked the place in a French book by Tard, whicl a; wi h
other volumes on punishment and a book in English bv
Henry George. She sat down at the table and wrote a
note asking hin. co be sure to come that same day, and Tak-
mg^her head in surprise at what she saw, she returned to her
,,:J.T° ^"^stions regarding her brother now interested Nath-
alie :hs marriage with Katusha, which she had heard spoken
abou in their town-for everybody was speakinlabo S it-
and his giving away the land to'fhe peLnts.^vS was
also known and struck many as something of a political na-
ture, and dangerous. The marriage with Katusha pleased
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her in a way. She admired that resoluteness which was so
like him and herself as they used to be in those happy times
before her marriage. And y t she was horrified when she
thought her brother was going to marry such a dreadful
woman. The latter was the stronger feeling of the two, and
she decided to use all her influence to prevent him from
doing it, though she knew how difficult this would be.
The other matter, the giving up of the land to the peasants,
did not touch her so nearly, but her husband was very indig-
nant about it, and expected her to influence her brother
against it.
Rogozhinsky i^aid that such an action was the height of
inconsistency, flightiness, and pride, the only possible ex-
planation of which was the desire to appear original, to brag,
to make one's self talked about.
" What sense could there be in letting the land to the peas-
ants, on condition that they pay the rent to themselves ? " he
said. " If he was resolved to do such a thing, why not sell
the land to tl]em through the Peasants' Bank ? There might
have been some sense in that. In fact, this act verges on
insanity."
And Rogozhinsky began seriously thinking about putting
Nekhludofi" under guardianship, and demanded of his wife
that she should speak seriously to her brother about his curi-
ous intention.
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hich was so
happy times
id when she
a dreadful
the two, and
t him from
dbe.
he peasants,
i very indig-
her brother
le height of
possible ex-
nal, to brag,
to the peas-
selves ? " he
vhy not sell
rhere might
t verges on
)out putting
of his wife
)ut his curi-
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CHAPTER XXXII.
nekhludoff's anarchism.
c;cw''°°".^' Nekhludoff returned that evening and saw his
sister s note on the table he started to go and see her He
found Nathalie alone, her husband having gone to take a
rest m the next room. She wore a tightlv-fitting black silk
dress, with a red bow in front. Her black hair w^as crimped
and arranged according to the latest fashion. ^
husbanrwhnS' ^""l" ^? ^PP'^' y°""^' ^^' t^^ sal^e of her
husband, whose equal she was m years, were very obvious
When she saw her brother she jumped up and Cried
towards h.m, vyith her silk dress rustling. They kissed and
ooked smilingly at each other. There passed between them
that mysterious exchange of looks, full li meaning! in whfch
all was true, and which cannot be expressed in wo?ds Then
SmThtr's^S^a^h^^^^ "" ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^.
lips IuTke'?:d^ T^i';^^^t ^°""^^^'" '^ '^'' -^ ^-
'« w ^ -^"" ^^^^ grown thinner."
^^ Well, and how is your husband? " Nekhludoflf asked
He is taking a rest ; he did not sleep all night " There
was much to say but it was not said in wordf; only the r
looks expressed what their words failed to say ^
i went to see you."
" Yes, I know. I moved because the house is too big for
me I was lonely there, and dull. I want nothing of all that
meltlnrtil^nV'^" '^' '^"^ ^^^^ '^ ^"-^^ ^-"^turt"
Thln^k^: Xttl ^:^i!i^. ^^^^ ^^- ' -"^ ^--•
/^M^u^"'^"'^"^ *^^ ''o*^^ waiter brought in a silver tea-
se. While he set the table they were silent. Then Shalie
N:k&of?yi;%^^,^;r.r^! ^'- -' -^" - siLt
ali;^l,r i^'^'^^lid^KS'altn." ''''' ^"^^^^^' ' ^"^
What of that ? I am glad you know."
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led'?^The'^as"kJd" ''°^^ *° '"^^°'''" ''^'* ^^*^'' ^^^ ^'^^ '^'^ ^^'
He sat quite straight on a small chair, and listened atten-
tively, trying to understand her and to answer riffhtlv The
M^'l "\'Mf/n".'1 ■''''^ /" ^^'"^ ^'y ^'' ^^«t interview with
"It is not her but myself I wish to reform," he replied.
TMathalie sighed.
!! There are other means besides marriage to do that "
«..ri 1 •* V-", T* ^' *^ ^^'*- ^^^^'^^^' ^t Jeads me into that
world in which I can be of use."
;; I cannot believe you will be happy," said Nathalie.
^^ It s not my happiness that is the point "
Of course; but if she has a heart she cannot be happy
— cannot even wish it." ^^^
" She does not wish it."
" I understand ; but life "
"Yes— life?"
" Demands something different."
right, said Nekhludoflf, looking into her face, still hand-
some, hough slightly wrinkled round eyes and mouth.
^^ 1 do not understand," she said, and sighed.
Poor darling; how dould she change so?" he thought
calling back to his mind Nathalie as she had been before her
marriage, and feeling towards her a tenderness woven out
of innumerable memories of childhood. At that moment
Rogozhinsky entered the room, with head thrown back and
expanded chest, and stepping lightly and softly in his usual
Si ghTten^n 'P^'*^^'^'' ^'^ ^^^^ P^^ch, and his black beard
" How do you do? How do you do? " he said, laying an
unnatural and intentional stress on his words. (Thoueh
soon after the marriage, they had tried to be more familiar
with each other, they had never succeeded )
eas'^^chaiV ^^'^ ^^"'^'' ^""^ ^Rogozhinsky sank softly into an
r. Am I not interrupting your conversation > "
from aVot."°' "''" '° ^'"^^ ""''" ' ="" '^y'"« °' <'°"S
As soon as Nekhliidoff saw the hairy hands, and heard the
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life she has
itenecl atten-
ightly. The
:ervie\v with
good will to
e replied,
lo that."
me into that
ithalie.
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do what is
still hand-
nouth.
he thought,
1 before her
woven out
at moment
n back and
n his usual
)lack beard
I, laying an
(Though,
re familiar
tly into an
^ or doing
1 heard the
mome"nt.'"^' '"^^-^'^"'"^^ ^ones, his meekness left him in a
" sZu'l'^^i'Jf'^ talking about his intentions," said Nathalie,
teapot ^ ^°" ^ '"P °^ *'^- " ''^" ^^^^^^' taking the
;; Yes please. What particular intentions do you mean' "
That of gomg to Siberia with the gang of prisoners
among vyhom ,s the woman I consider myself^ to have
wronged," uttered Nekhludoff. ^ ^
'' vl'rr Tl ""'^ *° accompany her, but more than that "
^^ Yes, and to marry her if she wishes it."
Uear me But if you do not object I should like to ask
- "mv'S^?'" ^°"'' T'^'"' ^ ^° "°t understand them"
My motives are that this woman-that this woman's
first step on her way to degradation " Nekhludoff ^ot
angry with himself, and was unable to find the right expres
'T.u My motives are that I am the guilty one and^she
gets the punishment." ^ ^ ' ^"" ^"^
;; If she is being punished she cannot be innocent, either "
She is quite innocent." And Nekhludoff related the
whole incident with unnecessary warmth.
Yes, that was a case of carelessness on the oart of the
president, the re.ult of which was a thoughtless answer on
the^part of the jury; but there is the SenTte for'cas^s like
"' J? n^^?^*,^ ^^^ rejected the appeal."
Well^ if the Senate has rejected it, there cannot have
been sufficient reasons for an appeal," said Rogozhinskv
evidently sharing the prevailing opinion that tS is £
product of judicial decrees. " The Senate canno enter into
the question on its merits. If there is a real mistake The
Emperor should be petitioned." mistake, the
J^J^^l ^^' M^^" ^°"*'' ^"t there is no probability of suc-
cess. They wi apply to the Department of the Minitrv he
Department will consult the Senate, the Senate wm repeat
Its decision and, as usual, the innocent will get pun hcT
consult^h??' P ' •-' '^'. Department of the Mfnistry won't-.
S^^ii? "^t w n" Lr^"^ I^g6zhinsky, with a cond^scendkv
ent ^om the T .i ^r^ 7^''^ ^f .*^" °"^'"^1 ^^^^' to be
f.7/1 ; ^ ^^y ^°^^^' and if it discovers a mistake it
will decide accnrdino-jv And ^(^m-nAU, 4-u • ""^^aKe it
never nunkheH ,^; n"^ V . • ' ^^^^"dly, the innocent are
never punished, or at least in verv rare, exceotional rases
It IS the guilty who are punished." Roe62Wnskv said rielh
erately, and smiled self-complacentl^^ ' ^ '^'^'^"
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" And I have become fully convinced that most of those
condemne'i uv law are innocent."
"Hovvr, di'at?"
" Innocent in the literal sense. Just as this woman is
innocent of poisoning any one ; as innocent as a peasant I
h? -e just come to know, of the murder he never com-
mitted ; as a mother and son who were on the point of being
condemned for incendiarism, which was committed by the
owner of the house that was set on fire."
"Well, of course there always have been and always will
be judicial errors. Human institutions cannot be perfect."
" And, besides, there are a great many people convicted
who are innocent of doing anything considered wrong by
the society they have grown up in."
" Excuse me, this is not so ; every thief knows that steal-
ing is wrong, and that we should not steal; that it is im-
moral," said Rogozhinsky, with his quiet, self-assured,
slightly contemptuous smile, which specially irritated Nekh-
ludoflF.
" No, he does not know it ; they say to him ' don't steal,'
and he knows that the master of the factory steals his labour
by keeping back his wages ; that the Government, with its
officials, robs him continually by taxation,"
'* Why, this is anarchism," Rogozhinsky said, quietly
defining his brother-in-law's words.
" I don't know what it is ; I am only telling you the truth,"
NekhludoflF continued. " He knows that the Government
is robbing him, knows that we landed proprietors have
robbed him long since, robbed him of the land which should
be the common property of all, and then, if he picks up dry
wood to light his fire on that land stolen from him, we put
him in jail, and try to persuade him that he is a thief. Of
course he knows that not he but those who robbed him of
the land are thieves, and that to get any restitution of what
has been robbed is his duty towards his family."
" I don't understand, or if I do I cannot agree with it.
The land must be somebody's property," began Rogozhinsky
quietly, and, convinced that Nekhludoff was a Socialist, anil
that Socialism demands that all the land should be divided
equally, that such a division would be very foolish, and that
he could easily prove it to be so, he said : '' If you divided it
equally to-day, it would to-morrow be again in the hands oi
the most industrious and clever."
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it most of those
this woman is
: as a peasant I
he never com-
e point of being
mmitted by the
and always will
not be perfect."
)eople convicted
lered wrong by
nows that steal-
; that it is im-
;t, self-assured,
irritated Nekh-
im ' don't steal,'
steals his labour
nment, with its
y said, quietly
■ you the truth,"
he Government
roprietors have
id which should
he picks up dry
)m him, we put
is a thief. Of
robbed him of
:itution of what
nily."
: agree with it.
m Rogozhinsky
a Socialist, and
3uld be divided
oolish, and that
f you divided it
in the hands of
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.he cuUiv'aflon ^f SS"lf,^r 1"'°"' '" "^ ■ »"ho„t then,
the n-Rhts of pronertv and w^l"^'"""' "Z '"."""'• D«'™y
people's desire .o'^^oI^I^^LSXT. ? C/r j™ '-
lords, like dogs in the maL!^ n' "e"' """'' 'h^ 'and-
touse wi„no?,.t tht-u^^lt-wirar^^S:;!;-'-^ .0 put it
madne"i ""l™ J'p is:'''''- ,»'f I >•» -e saying is sheer
age? Iknowi isCrnfdh^hh ' T^I}^ '" '^"'' '" ""^
straight," and RogSnskv ^r^'- ^,"' ='"?T ™ *° t^" ™u
bled It was ev°r„t ,h,7,f- " P"'?' ''"'' '"^ ™'« trem-
nearly. " I shou M al 1 ""! 1"'''!°" '""^''^d him very
hef J at.ef4^°nt'tonX?uya°c?S^.^ "^'^ O""''™ »'«
" YeJ Thnff h''",^ "^ ■"/ P*^""™' 'Affairs? "
stances should^b a? , he' re ',^^1?!="=^'' '." '^"^^ ->"""-
those eircumstances 5,ouldS^" 1" "'''?. 'P""g f™™
we were born, and whthwl?'? '''".""'"ions in which
cessors, and wHch we onX " '"^""^^'^ f™m our pre<le-
•■ I consider iJm7dutv?!li!" "^^ °" '° °"' <l««"dants."
rup'tS',?.'' ••fam't't''sSfak!rf'' ""' ^7,"'"""^ *^ -'-
The position ofmv chiwtn ? "T^'* ""^ "^ '=l'»''ren.
|or u^ to live°LXS;, and / -"^^'ecrmJ T7', '"""?!;
live so too, so that mv inwlcf • ^^P^^^ "i> children will
you will allow netoZ so knn;" ^T ^^^jon-which, if
based on personal mSLc' •! "^ ^^'e" considered-is not
not agreeS you Tlho,ld adv^^ P""^'P^^^h-t I can-
over, to read -" ^"^"^''^ >'°" *« think it well
whlt'^lo "e ad"aTd whaf not'tn "^h '''''''' ^"^ *« ^^oose
dofiF, turning pale FeeS hlT."^'."^^''"^^'" '^'^ ^ekhlu-
he was no longer master of hmi^ If ^'"'"^ ^°^^' ^"^^ ^^at
drinking his tef "''^^^' ^' '^^PP^^, and began
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THE AIM OF THE LAW.
"Well, and. how are the children?" Nekhludoff asked
tli: ch1ldre?'"s^ "^? t"^'"' ^'^^ ^^^^- '^^^^ 'bo"t
tne children She said they were staying with their ^rand-
wi°th 'h. '^'k^'*^":;'' r^^^^>' ^"^' P^^^^^^ that Ws d1 pute
J^-^\ i?"'^?:".'', ^^^ ^°"^^ to an end, she began telling
him how her children played that they were travelling us?
as he used to do with his three dolls, one of them a neero
and another which he called the French lady ^
smiling" ^°" ""^^"^ remember it all?" said Nekhludoff,
"Yes, and just fancy, they play in the very same way "
.n^ ^"x?!f^"^ conversation had been brought to an
Tn her"hl^f H''^' ^^' ^"^^*/^' ^"^ ^^^ ^^^ not care to talk
onlv tn W r /^ P'"'"""". t '^^"t ^°"^^ be comprehensible
only to her brother, so, wishing to start a general conversa-
mo"ther at lof " ?^''"^ '^""^ '}^ ^°^^°^ °^ Klmensk^s
mother at losing her only son, who had fallen in a duel for
k^L^.ht\^"'^ '°P^' 1 '\^ ^">^ ^^^ "°^ ^^^^hed Moscow
Rogozhin.ky expressed disapproval at the state of things
that excluded murder in a duel from the ordinary cr mini
and a new dispute arose on the subject. Nothing was fidlv'
explained, neither of the antagonists expressed ^1714 had
m his mmd, each keeping to his conviction, whic con-
demned the other. Rogozhinsky felt that Nekhludoff con-
demned him and despised his activity, and he wished o
show him the injustice of his opinions
Nekhludoff, on the other hand, felt provoked by his
brother-in-law's interference in his affairs concerning the
land^ And knowing in his heart of hearts that h^ slter
her husband, and their children, as his heirs, had a ight to
stt.!?'Jir 'f'Sn^^^ that this narrow-minded man per^
Sn ^ V^'"", ^^^"'•«"« to regard as just and lawful what
Nekhludoff no longer doubted was folly and crime
lli
Nekhludoff asked
ir told him about
with their grand-
ad that his dispute
she began telling
re travelling, just
of them a negro
idy.
said Nekhludoff,
^ery same way."
1 brought to an
1 not care to talk
e comprehensible
jfeneral conversa-
r of Kamenski's
len in a duel, for
cached Moscow.
J state of things
ordinary criminal
rom Nekhludoff,
othing was fully
essed all he had
ion, which con-
Nekhludoff con-
d he wished to
ovoked by his
concerning the
that his sister.
1, had a right to
nded man per-
and lawful what
d crime.
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like anZlfn^:;^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ''^ ^^ ^-"^^^^ ^o the mines
.?S^^,l"^°ff's hands grew cold.
" utm^Xl^''' -°"'^ ^^^^ be? " he asked, hotly.
'"wVaVefse" '""''' '^^ '^"^ °^ '^^ '"^'" ^^'^ Nekhludoff.
" The upholding of class interests ! I think the law i.
a auTet\mir..''"th"'i' "^" """■" ^"''^ Rog^zhinsky with
to^ny'dfffe'rem aim';"''" " ^'""^"^ '"PP-'^^ '° h^™ a
found ''n„f° tJ?", '" ^^^°'y ''"' "°' '" practice, as I have
their^iuV^e^s'^aTthl^i'^r-'"'" ^^° ^'"^ '"^'-^''^ ^^^ above
R^,/ S^ -' , • , sectarians are moral, from- "
STre'^""^ '' *-= -- t-e,1i;eShf tlS^' ht'
;„ ' ^c°!, ^''" ' ^''"''' "'=" "'c object of the law is the unhnlrl
I W,e present state of thing's. The law lims a? rfw
" Or"remoWnEr°" '^'^^V ? P"'°" ' " Nekhludoff put in.
.nea^ordS Jlf ^0^^^, o.^rShe^'^ ™' '"=
with"aZred'ti,e' """'' '""'-''''^'" -'<■ R°.-hinsky
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" I mean that only two reasonable kinds of punishment
exist. Those used in the old days : corporal and capital
punishment, which, as human nature gradually softens,
come more and more into disuse," said NekhludofT.
" There, now, this is quite new and very strange to hear
from your lips."
" Yes, it is reasonable to hurt a man so that he should not
do in future what he is hurt for doing, and it is also quite
reasonable to cut a man's head off when he is injurious or
dangerous to society. These punishments have a reason-
able meaning. But what sense is there in locking up in a
prison a man perverted by want of occupation and bad ex-
ample ; to place him in a position where he is provided for,
where laziness is imposed on him, and where he is in com-
pany with the most perverted of men ? What reason is there
to take a man at public cost (it comes to more than 500
roubles per head) from the Toula to the Irkoutsk govern-
ment, or from Koursk "
' Yes, but all the same, people are afraid of those jour-
neys at pubUc cost, and if it were not for such journeys and
the p'isons, you and I would not be sitting here as we are."
'■ The prisons cannot insure our safety, because these
people do not stay there for ever, but are set free again. On
the contrary, in those establishments men are brought to
the tjreatest vice and degradation, so that the danger is in-
creased."
" You mean to say that the penitentiary system should
be improved."
" It cannot be improved. Improved prisons would cost
more than all that is being now spent on the people's educa-
tion, and would lay a still heavier burden on the people."
" The shortcomings of the penitentiary system in nowise
invalidate the law itself," Rogozhinsky continued again,
without heeding his broiher-in-law.
" There is no remedy for these shortcomings," said
Nekhludofif, raising his voice.
" What of that? Shall we therefore go and kill, or, as a
certain statesman proposed, go putting out people's eyes? "
Rogozhinsky remarked.
" Yes ; that would be cruel, but it would be efifective.
What is done now is cruel, and not only ineffective, but so
stupid that one cannot understand how people in their
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»oral and capital
radually softens,
khludofT.
' strange to hear
lat he should not
d it is also quite
le is injurious or
5 have a reason-
locking up in a
tion and bad ex-
; is provided for,
;re he is in com-
it reason is there
) more than 500
[rkoutsk govern-
ed of those jour-
ich journeys and
here as we are."
r, because these
t free again. On
, are brought to
the danger is in-
y system should
sons would cost
2 people's educa-
»n the people."
lystem in nowise
ontinued again,
tcomings," said
md kill, or, as a
people's eyes? "
Ltld be effective.
lefFective. but sd
people in their
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cHmlnanaw'.''" '"^ " '' ''''''' ^"^ ^^^ ^ '^"--s as
growling pak.''" '° '"'^ ^^""^ "^ '''" '^'^ ^ogozhinsky,
hensTble'.'' " '°"'* '""""^- ^"^ *° ^^ '^' - ---pre-
to vou'"'said^C£l^ f ""^ ""r^ '^""^^ incomprehensible
to yoii, said Rogozhmsky, with a trembling voice
tn olf ""^ '^^"J ^""^ °"^ P"^^'^ prosecutor did his very best
evoked noth!nl°hT''' ^"^, condemned, who could 'have
know hnw ^.^* sympathy in an unperverted mind. I
know how another cross-examined a sectarian and nut
facrthe wholfK^-°^ the Gospels as a criminal offence ;^"n
less\nd ^rnif ''"?'"^^%of ^he Law Courts consists in sense-
less and cruel actions of that sort "
rising'^''"^'^ "°^ '^'^^ '^ ^ *^'°"^^^ '°'" s^^d Rogozhinsky,
. Nekhludoflf noticed a peculiar glitter under his brother
m-law's spectacles. " Can it be tears? " he tUught A^^^^^
m UTh^ '''",^ ''^'' °^ '"J"'"^^ P"^^- RogoSky went
up to the window, got out his handkerchief, couched ancl
rubbed his spectacles, took them off, and wIpeS hf eyes
spe^^rny ^mo^"^' '^ ''^ '^^^ '^ '^^ ^ ^^^-' and dfd'not
Nekhludoff felt pained and ashamed of having offended
his brother-in-law and his sister to such a degree esSuv
as he was going away the next day. ^ ' ^'P^^'^"^
He parted with them in confusion, and drove home.
All I have said may be true-anyhow he did not replv
But It was not said in the right way. How little I must
ave changed if I could be carried away by il - ee ine to
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE PRISONERS START FOR SIBERIA.
The gang of prisoners, among whom was Maslova, was
to leave Moscow by rail at 3 p.m. ; therefore, in order to see
the gang start, and walk to the station with the prisoners
Nekhludoff meant to reach the prison before 12 o'clock.
The night before, as he was packing up and sorting his
papers, he came upon his diary, and read some bits here and
there. The last bit written before he left for Petersburg
ran thus : " Katusha does not wish to accept my sacrifice •
she wishes to make a sacrifice herself. She has conquered,'
and so have I. She makes me happy by the inner change!
which seems to me, though I fear to believe it, to be going
on m her. I fear to believe it, vet she seems to be coming back
to life." Then further on he read : " I have lived through
something very hard and very joyful. I learnt that she has
behaved very badly in the hospital, and I suddenly felt great
pain. I never expected that it could be so painful. I spoke
to her with loathing and hatred, then all of a sudden I called
to mind how many times I have been, and even still am
though but in thought, guilty of the thing that I hated her
for, and immediately I became disgusting to myself, and
pitied her and felt happy again. If only we could manage
to see the beam in our own eye in time, how kind we should
be. Then he wrote : " I have been to see Nathalie, and
again self-satisfaction made me unkind and spiteful, and a
heavy feeling remains. Well, what is to be done? To-
morrow a new life will begin. A final good-bye to the old !
Many new impressions have accumulated, but I cannot yet
bring them to unity."
When he awoke the next morning Nekhludof!'s first feel-
ing was regret about the aflfair between him and his brother-
in-law.
" I cannot go away like this," he thought. " I must go
and make it up with them." But when he looked at his
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;ria.
ras Maslova, was
re, in order to see
ith the prisoners
re 12 o'clock.
> and sorting his
►me bits here and
t for Petersburg
ept my sacrifice;
e has conquered,
he inner change,
e it, to be going
> be coming back
i^e lived through
irnt that she has
ddenly felt great
painful. I spoke
I sudden I called
d even still am,
that I hated her
to myself, and
e could manage
' kind we should
e Nathalie, and
1 spiteful, and a
be done? To-
-bye to the old !
)ut I cannot yet
idoff's first feel-
and his brother-
it. " I must go
e looked at his
s^'o^a'sVot toT..'';'' \\ ^'f "?' 'r ^ ^° g°' b"t "^"^t hurry
so as not to be too late for the departure of the eane He
hastily got everything ready, and sent the thin^gs^o the
station with a servant and Taras. Theodosia's ^hu band
who was going with them. Then he took the first" W-
chxk\v^ could find and drove off to the prison.
rhe prisoners' train started two hours before the train
by which he was going, so Nekhludoff paid his b 11 in th"
lodgings and left for good.-
It was July, and the weather was unbearably hot From
^eht h^d'^or^r,"',' ^i^ T"" °^ ^'^^ ^°°^^' -^^-''^'^e sultr"
aif Whin L"*' ^''' ^'f* '^'■"^"^^^^ ^"to the motionless
bro„ JJ^ h .?. ?•« 'ft'""^^ ^ ^"g^'^t breeze did arise, it
of oifplim °^ ^°' ^'' ^""^^ '''''^ ^"^t ^"d «"^^"i"g
o^^^ll^.Tv^^ P'°Pu' \^^^ 't'^^t^' ^"d those who were
peasants l^th t?. °"k'^' '^^P ''^^' ^^^^ ^he sunburnt
?ppfri' their bronzed faces and bark shoes on their
fntn T^""^^'^ '"^"d^"? the road, sat hammering the stones
hdr hnlbnThT '"""^ '"u'^^ ^""= -^^^^ the policemen fn
their holland blouses, with revolvers fastened with orange
cords, stood melancholy and depressed in the mTddle of "he
road, changing from foot to foot ; and the tramcars 'he
horses of which wore holland hoods on their hTadswUh
tS^r^i^:^ '^-'-' "P -^ ^-" ^^e s?n'ny rTaS
When Nekhludoff drove up to the prison the ^ane- had
not left the yard. The work of delivering Ind feclw
on ^^Thr.'' '^'' ^^ commenced at 4 A.M^was stHl go n|
thev had Tfl hf ° •""?''' °^ ^'^ "^^" ^"^ 64 women!
tney had all to be received according to the registry lists
The sick and the weak to be sorted oSt, and all to be deliv-'
hf doctor' a'nSZd-^l" """' ^^P^tor.'with ?wo°asslta^"s,
pnri fh. 1 ? ^^'^'*'^ assistant, the officer of the convoy
and the clerk, were sitting in the prison vard at a tibk
covered with writing materials and papers, which was olaced
m the shade of a wall. They called^he pri oneTs one bv
one, examined and questioned them, and took notes The
rays of the sun had gradually reached the table and it was
growing very hot and oppressive for want ofairanS because
of the breathmg crowd of prisoners that stood close by
^ood gracious, will this never come to an pnH i '' tu^
convoy officer, a tall, fat, red-faced man wi.Lhfgh shoulders!
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who kept puffing the smoke of his cigarette into his thick
moustache, asked, as he drew in a long puff. " You are
killing me. From where have you got them all ? Are there
many more ? " the clerk inquired.
" Twenty-four men and the women."
"What are you standing there for? Come on," shouted
the convoy officer to the prisoners who had not yet passed
the revision, and who stood crowded one behind the other.
The prisoners had been standing there more than three
hours, packed in rows in the full sunlight, waiting their
turns.
While this was going on in the prison yard, outside the
gate, besides the sentinel who stood there as usual with a
gun, were drawn up about 20 carts, to carry the luggage
of the prisoners and such prisoners as were too weak to
walk, and a group of relatives and friends waiting to see
the prisoners as they came out and to exchange a few words
if a chance presented itself and to give them u few things.
Nekhludoff took his place among the group. He had stood
there about an hour when the clanking of chains, the noise
of footsteps, authoritative voices, the sound of coughing,
and the low murmur of a large crowd became audible.
This continued for about five minutes, during which sev-
eral jailers went in and out of the gateway. At last the
word of command was given. The gate opened with a
thundering noise, the clattering of the chains became louder,
and the convoy soldiers, dressed in white blouses and carry-
ing guns, came out into the street and took their places in
a large, exact circle in front of the gate ; this was evidently
a usual, often-practised manoeuvre. Then another command
was given, and the prisoners began coming out in couples,
with flat, pancake-shaped caps on their shaved heads and
sacks over their shoulders, dragging their chained legs and
swinging one arm, while the other held up a sack.
First came the men condemned to hard labour, all dressed
alike in grey trousers and cloaks with marks on the back.
All of them— young and old, thin and fat, pale and red,
dark and bearded and beardless, Russians, Tartars, and
Jews— came out, clattering with their chains and brisklv
swinging their arms as if prepared to go a long distance,
but stopped after having taken ten steps, and obediently
took their places behind each other, four abreast. Tlieii
without interval streamed out more shaved men, dressed in
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te into his thick
Duff. " You are
n all ? Are there
me on," shouted
d not yet passed
)ehind the other,
nore than three
It, waiting their
'ard, outside the
as usual with a
rry the luggage
sre too weak to
5 waiting to see
tige a few words
m u few things.
, He had stood
:hains, the noise
id of coughing,
ne audible,
iring which sev-
ly. At last the
opened with a
5 became louder,
Duses and carry-
c their places in
is was evidently
lother command
out in couples,
aved heads and
hained legs and
L sack.
)our, all dressed
ks on the back.
, pale and red,
3, Tartars, and
ins and briskly
I long distance,
and obediently
abreast. Then
men, dressed in
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the same manner but with chains only on their I i,. These
.'l^nnnT'^'"'?^ /° ''^^'- '^'^^^ ^^"^^ ^^' ^« briskly and
stopped as suddenly, takin,; their places four in a row Then
came those exded by their Communes. Then the women
in he same order, first those condemned to hard TabZr
with grey cloaks and k.rchiefs ; then the exiled women and
hose follovvmg their husbands of their own f?le wHl
dressed m their own town or village clothing. Some of the
grey doaZ' ''''"'"^ '^'^^'^ ^'"'^P^^ ^" the^rontTof [heir
With the women came the children, boys and drls who
Thf ;:rtoof t?' '°T^' P^^^r^'" ^--^ theTr^ontrl'
.J I? took their places silently, only coughing now
and then, or making short remarks. ^ ^
thi l.T°"^^" ^J!"^^ without intermission. Nekhludoff
thought he saw Maslova as they were coming out but she
ZVcr^^Ze^ " '""'I'T '''^'' -"""fouTd'o'^; e
backs' and rh^ilr! ""'' ^yas womanly, with sacks on their
the men '°""'^ ^^'"'' ^^^^"^ ^^^^' P'^^^ behind
Though all the prisoners had been counted inside the
prison walls, the convoy counted them again comparing he
numbers with the list. This took very long eTpedalfv as
Tfus^S tt%="y-^ -^-' -^ chaVcl%Sc^es?ti;i:h
The convoy soldiers shouted and pushed the prisoners
o^t°a™7''wht'Jf",''^l ,''"' ^"S"'') ^"0 counfed'S
over again. When all had been counted, the convov officer
gave a command, and the crowd became ag^ted The
other ^n"" ^ ''^"^'^ ^"^ children rushed^ racing each
other, towards the carts, and began placing heir bLs on
the carts and climbing up themselves. Women wthcfvin^
babies, merry children quarrelling for places, and dull care
worn prisoners got into the carts '
Several of the prisoners took off their caps and came „n
u 'rat^rZtr; "'' ^T^ '^T^'- ^ekhlulff To'unS
t > I
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" I will give you a lift such that you'll remember. You'll
get there on foot right enough," shouted the officer. Only
one of the men was granted his request — an old man with
chains on his legs; and Nekhludoff saw the old man take
off his pancake-shaped cap, and go up to the cart crossing
himself. He could not manage to get up on the cart because
of the chains that prevented his lifting his old legs, and
a woman who was sitting in the cart at last pulled him in
by the arm.
When all the sacks were in the carts, and those who were
allowed to get in were seated, the officer took off his cap,
wiped his forehead, his bald head and fat, red neck, and
crossed himself.
" March," commanded the officer. The soldiers' guns
gave a click ; the prisoners took off their caps and crossed
themselves, those who were seeing them off shouted some-
thing, the prisoners shouted in answer, a row arose among
the women, and the gang, surrounded by the soldiers in
their white blouses, moved forward, raising the dust with
their chained feet. The soldiers went in front; then came
the convicts condemned to hard labour, clattering with their
chains; then the exiled and those exiled by the Communes,
chained in couples by their wrists ; then the women. After
them, on the carts loaded with sacks, came the weak. High
up on one of the carts sat a woman closely wrapped up,
and she kept shrieking and sobbing.
J
meml)cr. You'll
he officer. Only
in old man with
lie old man take
:he cart crossing
the cart because
is old legs, and
St pulled him in
those who were
:ook off his cap,
t, red neck, and
s soldiers' guns
;aps and crossed
if shouted some-
ow arose among
the soldiers in
g the dust with
ront; then came
tering with their
the Communes,
; women. After
the weak. High
ely wrapped up,
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CHAPTER XXXV.
" NOT MEN BUT STRANGE AND TERRIBLE CREATURES? "
The procession was such a long one that the carts with
the luggage and the weak started only when those in front
were already out of sight. When the last of the carts movecl
Nekhludoff got mto the trap that stood waiting for hhli and
told the tsvostchik to catch up the prisoners in^front so that
he could see if he knew any of the men in the gangland then
she had received the things he sent
It was very hot, and a clo'.d of dust that was raised bv a
thousand tramping feet stood all the time over the gang that
was moving down the middle of the street. The pHsonerl
wrs's^meZ? •"''>; S"' ^\^ ^^°^^'-^°-^ «W.l?-rhor
Zc A .u ^ '" catching them up. Row upon row thev
r^r ■>Jetturff"K'' '-^^^'-'-^-^ -— , no„e %
On they went, all dressed alike, moving a thousand feet all
soHtf ^^Th''""^'"^ '^''' ^''' ''^' ^^ 'f to keep up hei
spirits. There were so many of them, they all looked so
much a Ike, and they were all placed in such unusual pe-
no'irn'r '''"'"' '^P' '^'y ^^^"^^^ t° Nekhludoff to^be
not men but some sort of strange and terrible creatures This
impression passed when he recognised in the crowS of con
victs the murderer Federoff, and among the exiles Okh6t"n
istance ' AlZ '^[, h'"^P "'° ''''' '^^'^''^ '^ him for Is"
tifn th^. ^" the prisoners turned and looked at the
trap that was passing them and at the gentleman inside
oetfs'ef X^khrn'^'^^'.^^^ '' ^ ^^^" thatTeh S e':
hnu^ 1 -Nekhludoff, Okhotin winked, but neither of them
bowed, considering it not the thing
Mf4v°°"i-^' ^^'^K^l"foff ^ame up to the women he saw
Ala.lova , Mic was in the .second row. The tirst in the row
Z.^^uTP^'^'^'^'^-T'^' '^'^'^°"^ -°--"' who 1 ad her
cloak tucked up m her girdle. This was Koroshavka. The
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next was a pregnant woman, who dragged herself along with
difficulty. The third was Maslova; she was carrying her
sack on her shoulder, and looking straight before her. Her
face looked calm and determined. The fourth in the row
was a young, lovely woman who was walking along briskly,
dressed in a short cloak, her kerchief tied in peasant fashion.
This was Theodosia.
Nekhludoflf got down and approached the women, mean-
ing to ask Maslova if she had got the things he had sent her,
and how she was feeling, but the convoy sergeant, who was
walking on that side, noticed him at once, and ran towards
him.
" You m.ust not do that, sir. It is against the regulations
to approach the gang," shouted the sergeant as he came up.
But when he recognised Nekhludoff (every one in the
prison knew Nekhludoflf) the sergeant raised his fingers to
his cap, and, stopping in front of Nekhludoflf, said : " Not
now ; wait till we get to the railway station ; here it is not
allowed.' Don't lag behind ; march ! '" he shouted to the con-
victs, and putting on a brisk air, he ran back to his place at a
trot, in spite of the heat and the elegant new boots on his
feet.
Nekhludoflf went on to the pavement and told the isz'ost-
chik to follow him ; himself walking, so as to keep the con-
victs in sight. Wherever the gang passed it attracted atten-
tion mixed with horror and compassion. Those who drove
past leaned out of the vehicles and followed the prisoners with
their eyes. Those on foot stopped and looked with fear and
surprise at the terrible sight. Some came up and gave alms
to the prisoners. The alms were received by the convoy.
Some, as if they were hypnotised, followed the gang, but
then stopped, shook their heads, and followed the prisoners
only with their eyes. Everywhere the people came out of the
gates and doors, and called others to come out, too, or leaned
out of the windows looking, silent and immovable, at the
frightful procession. At a cross-road a fine carriage was
stopped by the gang. A fat coachman, with a shiny face and
two rows of buttons on his back, sat on the box ; a married
couple sat facing the horses, the wife, a pale, thin woman,
with a light-coloured bonnet on her head and a bright sun-
shade in her hand; the husband with a too-hat and a well-cut
light-coloured overcoat. On the seat in front sat their chil-
dren — a well-dressed little girl, with loose, fair hair, and as
herself along with
was carrying" her
t before her. Her
fourth in the row
cing along briskly,
in peasant fashion.
the women, mean-
ys he had sent her,
sergeant, who was
, and ran towards
ist the regulations
it as he came up.
[every one in the
ised his fingers to
adoflf, said : " Not
on; here it is not
houted to the con-
:k to his place at a
new boots on his
id told the isz'ost-
s to keep the con-
it attracted atten-
Those who drove
the prisoners with
ked with fear and
up and gave alms
d by the convoy,
ed the gang, but
wed the prisoners
le came out of the
out, too, or leaned
mmovable, at the
fine carriage was
hi a shiny face and
le box ; a married
)ale, thin woman,
and a bright sun-
hat and a well-cut
ont sat their chil-
, fair hair, and as
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V
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fresh as a flower, who also held a bright parasol and nn
eight-year-old boy, with a long, thin nedc and sharp collar"
bones, a sailor hat with long ribbons on his head
1 he father was angrily scolding the coachman because he
had not passed in front of the gang when he had a chance
o? d i'n";°' v',?"^"u'^ ^'J^ ^'^^ ^'°«^^ ^'' ^y-« with a Took
of disgust, shielding herself from the dust and the sun with
her silk sunshade, which she held close to her face
of hi.^ mLf ""u" ['Til^^ ^"^"""y ^' t^^ ""just rebukes
oL^ ^'jaster-who had himself given the order to drive
hLTh '' ^tj^^t-^"d with difficulty held in the glossy!
black horses, foaming under their harness and impatient to
owlpr n^f°lirT" ""''^^'^ ""i*^ ^" ^'' «°"1 to please the
owner of the fine equipage by stopping the gang, yet felt
that the dismal solemnity of the procession could not be
fineers to'hi ^°' ? "i?'^ a gentleman. He only raised hi^
^vfrelv nf L'^P- ° '''°''^ ^-f '''^''' ^""^ ''^^''' ^"^ looked
t^rfftn P"«°"ers as If promising in any case to pro-
tect the ovyners of the carriage from them. So the carriap-e
ould^or' '''' *'^ "'^^'^ 4''' P^°---" had passed, an^d
could only move on when the last of the carts, laden with
sacks and prisoners, rattled by. The hysterical woman who
sat on one of the carts, and had grown calm, aga^ began
shneking and sobbing when she saw the elegant carriage
^^".1, If °f ^'""^^ tightened the reins with a slight toudi"
and the black trotters, their shoes ringing against the pav:
ing stones, drew the carriage, softly svvayinf on t rubblr
wi?e' /hT'm' '^1 TT'y ^°"^^ where th? husband the
wife, the girl, and the boy with the .harp collar-bones were
going to amuse themselves. Neither the father nor the
mother gave the girl and boy any explanation of what they
had seen, so that the children had themselves to find ofMhe
ToTnA''^ fl '""°"^ ''^^'- ^^' gi^J' taking the expres-
sion of her father's and mother's faces into consideration
It^ the problem by assuming that these people were 0^'
another kind of men and women than her fLther and mother
fhPv H^h'.?,' "^"f "^^"'?'' ^^'^^ '^'""y ''-''^ ^^^ people, and that .
iig treated °'' '° ''''*''^ '" *''" ""^"""^ '^'^ ^^'^ '^^-
uhTIfrf^°'^ m'"" ^'^^ ^"^'^ ""^^'"'^^^ ^^"t fear, and was glad
uhen she could no longer see those people
J3ut the boy with the long, thin neck, who looked at the
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procession of prisoners without taking his eyes off them,
solved the question differently.
He still knew, firmly and without any doubt, for he had it
from God, that these people were just the same kind of peo-
ple as he was, and like all other people, and therefore some
one had done these people some wrong, something that ought
not to have been done, and he was sorry for them, and felt
no horror either of those who were shaved and chained or
of those who had shaved and chained them. And so the
boy's lips pouted more and more, and he made greater and
greater efforts not to cry, thinking it a shame to cry in such
a case.
is eyes off them,
>ubt, for he had it
same kind of peo-
id therefore some
lething that ought
or them, and feh
d and chained or
em. And so the
made greater and
me to cry in such
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE LORD.
Nekhliji)off kept up with the quick pace of the convicts
It^fnU^^H^ -'^^V^^^ ?lf ^'^' dreadfully hot. and it was
Sdust ' '" ' ''^^^"^' "^^tionless, burning air filled
^oMnfn .^^ ^"^ "^u^^^-^ r^'?^"* ^ ^"^'"^^^ ^^ ^ mile he again
Seet He'tS'.^"' '' u\' ''^". ^^'}'' ^" *^^ "Middle of^he
tJZu' -1 ^i *° '■,^'^^" ^*^* "^^'it s conversation with his
brother-in-law, but the recollecti. as no longer excired him
as they had done in the morning. They wefe duUed bv th^
'^r^TT^i' ^y '^' ^tarting^nd prLss L o th^^^^^^
and chiefly by the intolerable heat ^ ^'
a f?n"re''h/r^T'"*' 'u *^ '^^ °^ '^'"^ t''^^^ overhanging
a fence he saw two scho. - standing over a kneeline man
who sold ices. One of tne boys was already sucking fS
spoon and enjoy mg his ices, the other was wai hfg for a
glass that was being filled with something yellowtsh^
.,n.,yib'f "i-"^"^ ^ ?^^ ^ ^""^- " Nekhludoff asked his u-
vostchtk, feeling an insurmountable desire for some refresh-
" There is a good eating-house close by," the isvostchik
answered, and turning a corner, drove up to a dooH th a
ImS l^^^T.u ^^' P^""^P "^^'^ i" ^ Russian shirt who
stood behind the counter, and the waiters in their once wh te
clothing who sat at the tables (there being hardly any cus
tomers) looked with curiosity at the unusual vlftor and
offered him their services. Nekhludoff asked for a bottle of
seltzer water and sat down some way from the window at a
Xr ?.h ' """-r^ ^l*!^ ^ ^''y ^^°^h. Two men sat at an^
other table with tea-things and a white bottle in front of
hem mopping their foreheads, and calculating something
ma friendly manner. One of them was dark and bald and
had just such a border of hair at the back as Rogo'zl^Asky
This sight again reminded NekhlnHoff -f yestefda-'^ t^n;
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I !
I shall hardly be able to do it before the train starts " he
thought; "I'd better write." He asked for paper, an en-
velope, and a stamp, and as he was sipping the cool, efferves-
cent water he considered what he should say. But his
thoughts wandered and he could not manage to compose a
" My dear Nathalie,— I cannot go away with the heavy
mipression that yesterday's talk with your husband has left ''
he began. " What next.? Shall I ask him to forgive me
■uu- f^^. yesterday? But I only skid what I felt, and he
w'lll thmk that I am taking it back. Besides, this interference
of his in my private matters. ... No, I cannot," and again
he felt hatred rising in his heart towards that man so foreign
to him. He folded the unfinished letter and put it in his
pocket, paid, went out, and again got into the trap to catch up
the gang. It had grown still hotter. The stones and
the wails seemed to be breathing out hot air. The pavement
seemed to scorch the feet, and Nekhludoff felt a burning sen-
sation m his hand when he touched the lacquered splash-
guard of his trap. ^
The horse was jogging along at a weary trot, beating the
uneven, dusty road monotonously with its hoofs, the isvost-
chik kept falling into a doze, Nekhludoff sat without think-
mg of anything.
At the bottom of a street, in front of a large house, a
group of people had collected, and a convoy soldier stood by.
^^ What has happened? " Nekhludoff asked of a porter
Something the matter with a convict."
Nekhludoff got down and came up to the group. On the
rough stones, where the pavement slanted down to the gut-
ter, lay a broadly-built, red-bearded, elderly convict, with his
head lower than his feet, and very red in the face. He had a
grey cloak and grey trousers on, and lay on his back with the
paims of his freckled hands downwards, and at long inter-
vals his broad, high chest heaved, and he groaned, while his
bloodshot eyes were fixed on the sky. By him stood a cross-
looking policeman, a pedlar, a postman, a clerk, an old
woman with a parasol, and a short-haired boy with an empty
" They are weak. Having been locked up in prison they've
got weak, and then they lead them through the most broil-
ing heat,-' said the clerk, addressing Nekhludoff, who had
just come up.
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train starts," he
)r paper, an en-
lie cool, efferves-
d say. But his
ge to compose a
with the heavy
isband has left,"
1 to forgive me
at I felt, and he
this interference
mot," and again
; man so foreign
d put it in his
trap to catch up
rhe stones and
The pavement
t a burning sen-
cquered splash-
rot, beating the
Dofs, the isvost-
without think-
large house, a
oldier stood by.
d of a porter.
§:roup. On the
•wn to the gut-
Dnvict, with his
"ace. He had a
s back with the
i at long inter-
aned, while his
1 stood a cross-
clerk, an old
with an empty
I prison they've
:he most broil-
doff, who had
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• " "^^i"/,'^' ^^^^ likely," said the woman with the parasol,
m a doleful tone. ^ '
"His shirt should be untied," said the postman.
The policeman began, with his thick, trembling fingers
clumsily to untie the tapes that fastened the shirt round the
red, sinewy neck. He was evidently excited and confused,
but still thought It necessary to address the crowd
What have you collected here for? It is hot enoueh
without your keeping the wind off."
" They should have been examined by a doctor, and the
weak ones left behind," said the clerk, showing off his knowl-
edge of the law.
The policeman, having undone the tapes of the shirt, rose
and looked round.
.x/u^°\^ °"' ^ ^^" y°"- ^t 's not your business, is it?
What s there to stare at? " he said, and turned to Nekhludoff
for sympathy, but not finding anv in his face he turned to
the convoy soldier.
But the soldier stood aside, examining the trodden-down
heel of his boot, and was quite indifferent to the policeman's
perplexity.
" Those whose business it is don't care. Is it right to
do men to death like this ? A convict is a convict, but still
he is a man," different voices were heard saving- in the
crowd.
XT ',' ^."^^i.^ ^^^^^ "P h'gher, and give him some water," said
Nekhludoff.
" Water has been sent for," said the policeman, and taking
the prisoner under the arms he with difficulty pulled his
body a little higher up.
"What's this gathering here?" said a decided, authori-
tative voice, and a police officer, with a wonderfully clean
shiny blouse, and still more shiny top-boots, came up to the
assembled crowd.
" Move on. No standing about here," he shouted to the
crowd, before he knew what had attracted it.
When he came near and saw the dying convict, he made
a sign of approval with his head, just as if he had quite
expected it, and, turning to the policeman, said, " How is
this?
The policeman said that, as a gang of prisoners was pass-
ing, one of the convicts had fallen down, and the convoy
officer had ordered him to be left behind.
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"Well that's all right. He must be taken to the noHce
station. Call an isvostchik."
"A porter has gone for one," said the policeman, with
his fingers raised to his cap.
The shopman began something about the heat. *
''Is it your business, eh? Move on," said the police
officer, and looked so severely at him that the clerk was
silenced.
'' He ought to have a little water," said Nekhludoff. The
police officer looked severely at Nekhludoff also, but said
nothing. When the porter brotght a mug full of water, he
told the policeman to offer some to the convict. The police-
man raised the drooping head, and tried to pour a little
water down the mouth ; but the prisoner could not swallow
It. and It ran down his beard, wetting his jacket and his
< jarse, dirty linen shirt.
" Pour it on his head," ordered the officer ; and the police-
man took off the pancake-shaped cap and poured the water
over the red curls and bald part of the prisoner's head. His
eyes opened wide as if in fear, but his position remained
unchanged.
Streams of dirt trickled down his dusty iace, but ^he
mouth continued to gasp in the same regular way, anu his
whole body shook.
" And what's this? Take this one," said the police officer,
pointing to Nekhludoff's isvostchik. "You, there, drive
up.
" I am engaged," said the Isvostchik, dismally, and with-
out looking up.
>r ',' ]\ }^ ^J isvostchik; but take him. I will pay you," said
Nekhludoff, turning to the isvostchik.
„ "^,^"' 1^,^^.^t are you waiting for?" shouted the officer.
Catch hold.
The policeman, the porter, and the convoy soldier lifted
the dying man and carried him to the trap, and put him on
the seat But he could not sit up; his head fell back, and
the whole of his body glided off the seat.
"^ Make him lie down," ordered the officer.
"It's all right, your honour; I'll manage him like this,"
said the policeman, sitting down by the dying man, and
clasping his strong, right arm round the bodv under the
arms. The convoy soldier lifted the stockingless feet, in
prison shoes, and put them into the trap.
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en to the poHce
policeman, with
leat. '
said the police
the clerk was
jkhludoflf. The
■ also, but said
ull of water, he
ct. The police-
o pour a little
lid not swallow
jacket and his
and the police-
ured the water
ler's head. His
lition remained
idce, but he
r way, anu his
e police officer,
I, there, drive
al'y, and with-
pay you," said
ted the officer.
' soldier lifted
nd put him on
fell back, and
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The police officer looked around, and noticing the pan-
cake-shaped hat of the convict lifted it up and put it on the
wet, drooping head.
" Go on," he ordered.
The isvostchik looked angrily round, shook his head, and
accompanied by the convoy soldier, drove back to the police
station. The policeman, sitting beside the convict, kept
dragging up the body that was continuallv sliding down
from the seat, while the head swung from side to side
1 he convoy soldier, who was walking by the side of the
trap, kept putting the legs in their place. Nekhludoflf fol-
lowed the trap.
lim like this,"
ing man, and
)dy under the
igiess feet, in
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"spilled like water on the ground."
The trap passed the fireman who stood sentinel at the
entrance,* drove into the yard of the police station, and
stopped at one of the doors. In the yard several firemen
with their sleeves tucked up were washing sonit kind of cart
and talking loudly. When the trap stopped, several police-
men surrounded it, and taking the lifeless body of the
convict under the arms, took him out of the trap, which
creaked under him. The policeman who had brought the
body got down, shook his numbed arm, took oflF his cap
and crossed himself. The body was carried through the
door and up the stairs. NekhludoflF followed. In the small
dirty room where the body was taken there stood four beds'
On two of them sat a couple of sick men in dressing-gowns
one with a crooked mouth, whose neck .vas bandaged the
other one in consumption. Two of the beds were empty
the convict was laid on one of them. A little man, with
glistening eyes and continually moving brows, with only his
underclothes and stockings on, came up with quick, soft
steps, looked at the convict and then at NekhludoflF, and
burst into loud laughter. This was a madman who was
being kept in the police hospital.
" They wish to frighten me, but no, they won't succeed,"
he said. '
The policemen who carried the corpse were follower^ bv
a police officer and a medical assistant. The medical assist-
ant came up to the bof'v and touched the freckled hand
already growing cold, which, though still soft, was deadlv
pale. He held it for a moment, and then let it go It fell
lifelessly on the stomach of the dead man.
" He's ready," said the medical assistant, but, evidentlv to
be quite in order, he undid the wet, brown shirt, and tossing
back the curls from his ear, put it to the yellowish, broad
ge:eTa^1y^^oteX;1;^t?ow'" '"^^'^ ^"^ *^^ p°'- ^^^^-- -^
f1^i
JND.
entlnel at the
; station, an4
jveral firemen
It kind of cart
jeveral police-
body of tiie
2 trap, which
1 brought the
: off his cap,
through the
In the small,
•od four beds.
;ssing-gowns,
)andaged, the
were empty;
le man, with
with only his
^1 quick, soft
chludoff, and
lan who was
>n't succeed,"
followed by
ledical assist-
eckled hand,
, was deadly
t go. It fell
evidently to
, and tossing
'wish. broad,
:e stations are
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immovable chest of the convict. All were silent. The
medical assistant raised himself again, shook his head, and
touched with his fingers first one and then the other lid
over the open, fixed blue eyes.
" I'm not frightened, I'm not frightened." The madman
kept repeating these words, and spitting in the direction of
the medical assistant.
" Well ? " asked the police officer.
" Well ! He must be put into the mortuary."
',] ^r X°" ^"'■^'^ Mind," said the police officer.
" It's time I should know," said the medical assistant,
drawmg the shirt over the body's chest. " However. I will
send for Mathew Ivanovitch. Let him have a look. Petrov,
call him," and the medical assistant stepped away from the
body.
« r ^^^^ ^^"^ ^° ^^^ mortuary," said the police officer.
And then you must come into the office and sign," he
added to the convoy soldier, who had not left the convict
for a moment.
" Yes, sir," said the soldier.
The policemen lifted the body and carried it down again.
Nekhh'idoff wished to follow, but the madman kept him
back.
" You are not in the plot ! Well, then, give me a cigar-
ette," he said. Nekhliidoff got out his cigarette case and
gave him one.
The madman, quickly moving his brows all the time,
began relating how they tormented him by thought sugges-
" Why, they are all against me, and torment and torture
me through their mediums."
" I beg your pardon," said Nekhludoff, and without listen-
mg any further he left the room and went out into the yard,
wishing to know where the body would be put.
The policemen with their burden had already crossed the
yard, and were coming to the door of a cellar. Nekhludoff
wished to go up to them, but the police officer stopped him.
"What do you want?"
" Nothing."
" Nothing? Then go away."
Nekhludoff obeyed, and went back to his isvosfchik, who
was dozing. He awoke him, and they drove back towards
the railway station.
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They had not made a hundred steps when thev met a
car accompanied by a convoy soldier with a gun ^O^ he
cart lay another convict, who was already dead. The con-
vict lay on his back in the cart, his shaved heP.d. from which
aceKn tntlfP'^ "'Pu^,'-^ ^"^ ^^^'^ '^' black-beard 5
tace down to the nose, shaking and thumping at cverv jolt
ca t hSi"t^' ^''"'^ boots, walked by L side ^Vthe
ShlSHni? r,T"'' ^ Pobceman followed on foot.
Nekhludoff touched his isvostchik's shoulder
stop^plng Lif hot:' ^'^^ "' '°"^'" '''' ^^^ ^•--'^'"•^'
Nekhludoff got down and. following the cart aeain
passed the sentinel and entered the gate of the police station
By this time the firemen had finished wash ngThe cart and
a tall, bony man, the chief of the fire brigade, with a coloured
band round his cap, stood in their place and, with his hands
in his pockets, was severely looking a a fat-necked we
£ i fireman "tI'^T '^^"^ 1^^ "^ ^"^ down befo^elm
by a fireman The stallion was lame on one of his fore feet
and the chief of the firemen was angrily saying somethS
to a veterinary who stood by ^ ^ y ^ iomeming
carTt^^'itVp^^^/heT^^^^^^^^^ ^'^^ ^^ -^ ^^^
helZLlppro'vi^^y'""^ ''" ''•°"- " ^^ ^^^^^' ^'^^^-^ his
;; From the Gorbatoyskaya," answered the policeman.
A prisoner ? asked the chief of the fire brigade
Yes.
asked the chief of the fire brigade
It s the second to-day."
^u ^t"' i '""^^ ^^X *h^y'^^ &ot some queer arrangements
Though of course it's a broiling day," said the chie^of "he
fire brigade; hen, turning to the fireman who was leading
II T'/*^"^°"' h" 'h°"*^^- "P"t him into the corne?
stall. And as to you, you hound, I'll teach you how to cripple
horses which are worth more than you are, you scoundrd ''
, Ihe dead man was taken from the cart by the policemen
just in the same way as the first had been, Ld caSTip
stairs into the hospital. Nekhludoff followed them as if
he were hypnotised.
N^wn* ^'"^iT "^^"^ • " ^'^^^ °"^ °f tbe policemen. But
Nekhludoff did^ not answer, and followed where the bodv
was being carried. The madman, sitting on a b"d was
smoking greedily the cigarette Nekhludoi? had given him
Ah, you ve come back," he said, and laughed. When
en they met a
1 gun. On the
ead. The con-
'd, from which
black-bearded
? at every jolt,
he side of the
)wed on foot.
the isvostchik,
le cart, again
police station,
r the cart, and
v'\th a coloured
with his hands
-necked, well-
ivn before him
f his fore feet,
ng something
n he saw the
d, shaking his
policeman,
igade.
irrangements.
2 chief of the
• was leading
the corner
low to cripple
u scoundrel."
he policemen
i carried up-
1 them as if
icemen. But
ire the body
a bed, was
1 given him.
bed. When
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he savy the body he made a face, and said, " Again! I am
Nek^Lnff >?' "°' ^ ^°^'- ^"^ ^' "'^- " ^"^ l^e ^"^»ed to
iNekhludoff with a questionmg smile
Nekhliuloff was looking at the dead man, whose face
which had been hidden by his cap, was now visible. Thfs
convict was as handsome in face and body as the other was
hideous. He was a man in the full bloom of life. Notwith-
s anding that he was disfigured by the half of his head being
the black, lifeless eyes, was very fine, and so was the nose
above he thin, black moustaches. There was a smile onX
ips that were already growing blue, a small beard outlined
the lower part of the face, and on the shaved side of the
nead a firm, well-shaped ear was visible
One could see what possibilities of a higher life had been
lestroyed m this man. The fine bones of his hands and
it'ht l^^'^'^r^'^'? "^"^/^^^ «^ ^" ^'''' well-proportioned
hT. h.H r'"^ 'a^^' ^ ^'?"'^/"^' ^^™"&' ^g'Je himan animal
this had been. As an animal merely he had been a far more
Famn'^nriM^;.' ^.'"^ *^^" *^^ ^^^ '^^^"'°"' -bout "l e
laming of which the fireman was so angry
Yet he had been done to death, and no one was sorry for
him as a man, nor was any one sorry that so fine a working
animal had perished. The only feeling evinced was that o?
Sr,r- '?T^?^ ^^^ ^°^^- ---1 by the necesshy' o
getting this body threatening putrefaction, out of the way
Ihe doctor and his assistant entered the hospital, accom-
panied by the inspector of the police station. ^ The doctor
7\V.^T T"' f ''f'^^" ?°"^^^ '^^ ^°-* -"d trousers
of the same materia closely fitting his muscular thighs
The inspector was a little fat fellow, with a red face, round
fin.Lf •' 't'"? ^' "l^^". ''•" broader by a habit he had of
filling his cheeks with air, and slowly letting it out again
The doctor sat down on the bed bv the side of the deLd
man, and touched the hands in the same way as his assistant
had done, put his ear to the heart, rose, and pulled his
trousers straight. " Could not be more dead," he aid
it Jut'agaTn'''^' ^"'^ ^" "°"^^ "^^^ ^'' ^"^ slowly blew
"Which prison is he from ? " he asked the convoy soldier
Ihesoldier told him. and reminded him of ' ' '
the dead man's feet.
chaii
■J,
on
ril have them taken ofif ; we have got a smith about, the
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Lord be thanked," said the inspector, and blew up his
cheeks again ; he went towards the door, slowly letting out
the air.
"Why las this happened?" Nekhludoflf asked the
doctor.
The doct-^r looked at him through his spectacles.
" Why has what happened ? Why they die of sunstroke,
you mean? This is why: They sit all through the winter
without exercise and without light, and suddenly they are
taken out into the sunshine, and on a day like this, and they
march in a crowd so that they get no air, and sunstroke is
the result."
" Then why are they sent out? "
" Oh, as to that, go and ask those who send them. But
may I ask who are you ? "
" I am a stranger."
" Ah, well, good-afternoon ; I have no time." The doctor
was vexed ; he gave his trousers a downward pull, and went
towards the beds of the sick.
" Well, how are you getting on? " he asked the pale man
with the crooked mouth and bandaged neck.
Meanwhile the madman sat on a bed, and having finished
his cigarette, kept spitting in the direction of the doctor.
Nekhludoflf went down into the yard and out of the gate
past the firemen's horses and the hens and the sentinel in
his brass helmet, and got into the trap, the driver of which
had again fallen asleep.
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off asked the
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
nd them. But
d the pale man
THE CONVICT TRAIN.
When Nekhltidoff came to the station, the nrisoners
were all seated in railway carriages with grateS w ndows
Several persons, come to see them off, stood on theZl
form but were not allowed to come up to the °"riages^
The convoy was much troubled that da Or ^he wav
from the pnson to the station, besides the two NeV hluS
tl fir... "' ^T^^^'^ '"^ *'^^ "^^"-^^t pol... .Stat;.; iZ
tlio first two, and the other two died at the rail ay station ♦
The convoy men were not troubled because fivf men who
might have been alive died while in their charge This did
not trot,ble them, but they were concerned fes anything
that the law required in such cases should be omitted To
convey the bodies to the places appointed, to deliver ud
ieyedTo^NHnr an'th^'^" °^ ^'^ ''''' °^ '^^^^ '« ""con?
sVhot a day "^^^ ^^'^ troublesome, especially on
.nnf/""!^ tl''' *^^* occupied the convoy men. and before it
could all be accomplished Nekhludoff and the o her who
to^o so" Ne^hl^l^ff 7 '^ ^'" '''^''^'^ --' -'"•i-veci
to GO so. JNekhludoff, however, was soon allowed to e-o tin
because he tipped the convoy sergeant. The sergeam"et
NekhUidoff pass, but asked him to be quick and gefhis talk
ca7riac.es°?nTir °^ ?^ '"^'°"^^^^ "°^^^^'- Thefe w re 8
carriages in all, and except one carriage for the offirHk
they were full of prisoners.^ As Nekhlucloff pas ed tlfe ca':
nages he listened to what was going on in them In al
of'bu'dr^lxeH^-l^'r' f'^ ?-g-#of chains,The sound
ot bustle, mixed with loud and senseless language but not a
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Looking into one of the carriages, Nekhludoff saw con-
voy soldiers taking the manacles off the hands of the pris-
oners. The prisoners held out their arms, and one of the
soldiers unlocked the manacles with a key and took them
off ; the other collected them.
After he had passed all the other carriages, Nekhludoff
came up to the women's carriages. From the second of
these he heard a woman's groans : " Oh, oh, oh ! O God !
Oh, oh ! O God ! "
Nekhludoff passed this carriage and went up to a window
of the third carriage, which a soldier pointed out to him.
When he approached his face to the window, he felt the
hot air, filled with the smell of perspiration, coming out of
it, and heard distinctly the shrill sound of women's voices.
All the seats were filled with red, perspiring, loudly-talking
Avomen, dressed in prison cloaks and white jackets. Nekh-
ludoff's face at the window attracted their attention. Those
nearest ceased talking and drew closer. Maslova, in her
white jacket and her head uncovered, sat by the opposite
window. The white-skinned, smiling Theodosia sat a little
nearer. When she recognised Nekhludoff, she nudged
Maslova and pointed to the window. Maslova rose hur-
riedly, threw her kerchief over her black hair, and with a
smile on her hot, red face came up to the window and took
hold of one of the bars.
" Well, it is hot," she said, with a glad smile.
" Did you get the things ? "
" Yes, thank you."
" Is there anything more you want ? " asked Nekhludoff,
while the air came out of the hot carriage as out of an oven.
■' I want nothing, thank you."
" If we could get a drink ? " said Theodosia.
" Yes, if we could get a drink," repeated Maslova.
" Why, have you not got any water ? "
" They put some in, but it is all gone."
" Directly, I will ask one of the convoy men. Now we
shall not see each other till we get to Nijni."
" Why ? Are you going ? " said Maslova, as if she did
not know it, and looked joyfully at Nekhludoff.
" I am going by the next train."
Maslova said nothing, but only sighed deeply.
" Is it true, sir, that 12 convicts have been done to
idoff saw con-
ds of the pris-
ind one of the
ind took them
ss, Nekhludoflf
the second of
:, oh ! O God !
p to a window
:d out to him.
»w, he felt the
coming out of
omen's voices,
loudly-talking
ickets. Nekh-
ention. Those
aslova, in her
y the opposite
Dsia sat a little
, she nudged
ova rose hur-
ir, and with a
idow and took
le.
d Nekhludoflf,
ut of an oven.
ia.
laslova.
len. Now we
as if she did
iff.
ply.
leen done to
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death ? " said a severe-looking old prisoner with a deep
voice like a man's.
It was Korableva.
^^ I did not hear of 12 ; I have seen two," said Nekhludoflf.
" They say there were 12 they killed. And will nothing
be done to them ? Only think ! The fiends ! "
" And have none of the women fallen ill ? " Nekhludoflf
asked.
" Women are stronger," said another of the prisoners—
a short little woman, and laughed ; " only there's one that
has taken it into her head to be delivered. There she goes,"
she said, pointing to the next carriage, whence proceeded
the groans.
" You ask if we want anything," said Maslova, trying to
keep the smile of joy from her lips ; " could not this woman
be left behind, suflfering as she is? There, no^, if you would
tell the authorities."
;| Yes, I will."
rr " A"f, °"^ ^^^^S more ; could she not see her husband,
Taras? she added, pointing with her eyes to the smiling
Theodosia.
'* He is going with you, is he not ? "
" Sir, you must not talk," said a convoy sergeant, not the
one who had let Nekhludoflf come up. Nekhludoflf left the
carriage and went in search of an ofificial to whom he might
speak for the woman in travail and about Taras, but could
not find him, nor get an answer from any of the convoy for
a long time. They were all in a bustle ; some were leading a
prisoner somewhere or other, others running to get them-
selves provisions, some were placing their things in the car-
riages or attending on a lady who was going to accompany
the convoy oflficer, and they answered Nekhludoflf's ques-
tions unwillingly. Nekhludoflf found the convoy officer
only after the second bell had been rung. The offi'cer with
his short arm was wiping the moustaches that covered his
mouth and shrugging his shoulders, reproving the corporal
for something or other.
II What is it you want ? " he asked Nekhludoflf.
" You've got a woman there who is being confined, so I
thought best "
" Well, let her be confined ; we shall see later on," and
briskly swinging his short arms, he ran up to his carriage.
At the moment the guard passed with a whistle in his hand.
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and from the people on the platform and from the women's
carriages there arose a sound of weeping and words of
prayer.
Nekhludoflf stood on the platform by the side of Taras,
and looked how, one after the other, the carriages glided
past him, with the shaved heads of the men at the grated
windows. Then the first of the women's carriages came up,
with women's heads at the windows, some covered with ker-
chiefs and some uncovered, then the second, whence pro-
ceeded the same groans, then the carriage where Maslova
was. She stood with the others at the window, and looked
at Nekhludoff with a pathetic smile.
,t
il
1'
1
1
1
i ,
u ■■
! H!
n the women's
and words of
side of Taras,
images glided
at the grated
iages came up,
leered with ker-
, whence pro-
i^here Maslova
>w, and looked
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CHAPTER XXXIX. ,
BROTHER AND SISTER.
There were still two hours before the passenger train by
which Nekhludoff was going would start. He had thought
of using this interval to see his sister again ; but after the
impressions of the morning he felt much excited and so
done up that, sitting down on a sofa in the first-class re-
freshment-room, he suddenly grew so drowsy that he turned
over on to his side, and, laying his face on his hand, fell
asleep at once. A waiter in a dress coat with a napkin in his
hand woke him.
" Sir, sir, are you not Prince Nekhludoff? There's a lady
looking for you."
Nekhludoff started up and recollected where he was and
all that had happened in the morning.
He saw in his imagination the procession of prisoners,
the dead bodies, the railway carriages with barred windows,
and the women locked up in them, one of whom was groan-
ing in travail with no one to help her, and another who was
pathetically smiling at him through the bars.
The reality before his eyes was very different, i.e., a table
with vases, candlesticks and crockery, and agile waiters
moving round the table, and in the background a cupboard
and a counter laden with fruit and bottles, behind it a bar-
man, and in front the backs of passengers who had come up
for refreshments. When Nekhludoff had risen and sat
gradually collecting his thoughts, he noticed that everybody
111 the room was inquisitively looking at something that was
passing by the open doors.
He also looked, and saw a group of people carrying a
chair on which sat a lady whose head was wrapped in a
kind of airy fabric.
Nekhludoff thought he knew the footman who was sup-
portmg the chair in front. And also the man behind, and a
doorkeeper with gold cord on his cap, seemed familiar. A
lady's maid with a fringe and an apron, who was carrying a
parcel, a parasol, and something round in a leather case,
was walking behind the chair. Then came Prince Korcha-
gm, with his thick lips, apoplectic neck, and a travelling cap
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very en,ph..icany;ru1hTokin?,;;;r. Tmllta"^^^^^^^^^^^
Ihe Korchagins were moving from their P^t^L; ?/'
aty to tlje estate of the Princls'sTiste; on" f N^^Tr l!
way The procession— the men carrying the chi.V tL
maid, and the doctor-vanished into ^he^ ladies' waiting
ook"'rs"t;rt^tr ''fr^'' ^"^'°^'*^ -^ respect inXol"
!?Ki 1, , * ^''^ "'"^ P""ce remained and sat down at 1 1^
table called a waiter, and ordered food and drink Mi sv
aEou?to"sifd° ''"''f ^ ^", *^^ refreshment-room and wri
about to sit down, when they saw an acquaintance in the
zhrns'kf N^r"' "P ^" ^T ^' was\athaJ'e Rog6'
zninsky. iMathahe came into the refreshmpnt rr^^r^ ^ ^
r"'' It Ag'i^Pl'ena Petrovna/anfboth Tooke",^^^^^^^^^
firp mITm'"^ Osten began relating a funny story about a
fire. NekhludoflF paid no attention, and turned to his slter
How glad I am that you have come." ^^'•
I have been here a long time." she said. " A^raohena
Petrovna is with me." And she pointed to Afraohlna
he.H .f ' 7^""' '" ^ ^^terproof and with a bonnet on he?
SSn^W anH '''"'' ^^? °^' ""^ '^^^^•^d to him with kindly
dignity and some confusion, not wishing to intrude ^
^^ VVe looked for you evervwhere."
And I had fallen asleep here. How P-lad T am fi^.f
have con,e,- repeated Nekh'Judoff. " rhafbegu„To'w2^^
"Really ? " she said, looking frightened. " What about > "
and a few other tW^gs "' '°'''' °" "'"^'' '^^ ^ P'^'-^' "' t«.
Misha, and an
?cked diplomat
J his unvarying
ing something
smiHng Missy,
estate near the
the Nijni rail-
the chair, the
adies' waiting-
pect in the on-
at down at the
drink. Missy
■pom and were
intance in the
athalie Rogo-
t-room accom-
ked round the
moment both
Missy, only
her, at once
:khludoff rose
r a few words
n the country
their moving
story about a
i to his sister.
" Agraphena
) Agraphena
onnet on her
1 with kindly
trude.
am that you
in to write to
'hat about ? "
mate conver-
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" Yesterday, after T left you, I felt inclined to return and
sa?/N:k"hfud?r' 'r ' f r^ "^r'^' ^°- ^e wouM X it"-
toJmenteS me ?• ^ '^^^^ ^^'"'^^ ^° >'°"^ ^"^^and, and this
you lno"wT'"an;f th!f t''''''' " '^^' ^u"" ^'^ "°* "^^^" ^o. Oh.
h°s hanT Th. I *^^'' "^""^ *° ^^' ^y^S' a"d she touched
n?rf.^H A '^"^^"S^ ^^'as not clear, but he understood it
perfectly, and was touched by what it exoressed ^IrZl i
meant that, besides the love ir her LSnd which held he?
n ts sway, she prized and considered important the lov^ he
Tvvo prisoners have been done to death " ^onvics.
Uone to death ? How ? "
dieZnutrke '"'^- ^'""'^ ''' ^^^"^ - ^^^^ ^-^' -^ two
;; Impossible ! What, to-day ? Just now > "
" vZ' J"!f !;°'''' . ^ l'^''? 5^" their bodies."
„„_ .- , ., . ^^^ kWXQd them?"
asked
But why done to death.?
Nathalie.
"They who forced them to go killed them " said Nekhl,',
up tofheJif '■'" " '"''' Agraphena Petrovna, who had come
aucieci ixekhludoff, and looked at o d Korchaein who «;pt
NekhludofT refused, and turned awav ^'
" mn^T''!/''' -7'! ^?'^^ *° ^°- " ^^^thalie continued,
thine And TS;n11 f^"!^"^^' ^ut I feel I must do some-
tning. And 1 shall do what I am able to."
Yes, I understand. And how about them'" she con
tmued with a smile and a look towards Korchdgin ' Is k
possible that it is all over? " ^^i^nagin. is it
^.^- Completely, and I think without any regret on either
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. . ^}. '^. ^, P'ty- ^ 31" sorry. I am fond of her. However
It s all right. But why do you wish to bind yourself > " she
added shyly. " Why are vou going' "
" I go because I must/' answerer] Nekhludoff. seriously
and dryly, as if wishing to stop this conversation. But he
felt ashamed of his coldness towairls his sister at once
Why not tell her all I am thinking? " he thought, " and let
Agraphena Petrovna also hear it," he thought. \\ith a look
at the old servant, whose presence made the wish to repeat
his decision to his sister even stronger.
" You r.iean my intention to marry Katusha? Well vou
see I made up my mind to do it, but she refuses c'< rj,ii',,.iv
and firmly, he said, and his voice shook, as it always viid
vvhen he spoKe of it. " She does not wish to accept m'y sac-
rifice, but IS herself ,'a-ruicing what in her position meai s
much, and I cannot accept this sacrifice, if it is only a mo-
mentary impulse. And so I a.-i o;oi„y with her, and shall be
where she is, and shall try [-: lighten her fate as much as I
can.
Nathalie said nothing. Agraphena Petrovna looked at her
with a questioning look, and shook her head. At this mo-
ment the former procession issued from the ladies' room
he same handsome footman (Philip) and the doorkeeper
were carrying the Princess Korchagin. She stopped the nien
wh;, were carrying her, and motioned to Nekhludoff tp ap-
proach, and, with a pitiful, languishing air, she extended her
white, rmged hand, expecting the firm pressure of his hand
with a se;ise of horror.
" epotivantablc!" she said, meaning the heat. " I cannot
stand It ! Ce chmat mc tue!" And, after a short talk about
the horrors of the Russian climate, she gave the men a sien
to go on. ^
' Be sure and come," she added, turning her long face
towards Nekhludoff as she was borne away.
The procession with the Princess turned to the right
towards the first-class carriages. Nekhludoff, with the por-
ter who was carrying his things, and Taras with his bae
turned to the left. *^'
" This is my companion," said Nekhludoff to his sister
pointing to Taras, whose story he had told her before
" Surely not third class ? " said Nathalie, when Nekhludoff
stopped in front of a third-class carriage, and Taras and the
porter with the things went in.
i
f lier. However,
d yourself ? " she
iludoff, seriously
Tsation. But he
; sister at once,
bought, " and let
ght. with a lock
e wish in repeat
sha? Well, you
■efuses c'c^itiileiy
as it always >iicl
accept my sac-
• position mears
it is only a nio-
her, and shall be
te as much as I
na looked at her
d. At this mo-
le ladies' room,
the doorkeeper
stopped the men
ikhludoff to ap-
he extended her
ure of his hand
eat. " I cannot
short talk about
the men a sign
;■ her long face
d to the right
f, with the por-
5 with his bag,
ff to his sister,
ir before,
^en Nekhludoff
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"Yes; it is more convenient for me to be with Taras " he
ttv n Sv ^''"^ T'f'' ^ ^^'^'^^ ■' " "P to now I hav; no
.?iven .he ivousmmski land to the neasants- sn th^f J« Vo.
ot my death, your children will inherit it " ' '' '" ''''
^^ Dmitn, don't! " said Nathalie.
the.rs as'^it';7nnl rH' f \ ',^" '^^ '' ^^^^ '^' '^'^ will be
meirs as it is not likely I shall marrv ; and if I do marrv
1 shall have no children, so that " ^
i^l?rl^'h ''""'t ^^^^ ^'^^ that! " said Nathalie And vet
H^r un"'":f '^'\ '^! "^^ ^'''' to hear him say it ''
WiglKT up, uy the side of a first-class carriage there stood
i ^n. a sb ivorchagm had been carried. Most of the m^
mongers were already seated. Some of the la e comers hur
nedly clattered along the boards of the platformThe Jmrd
vvas closing the doors and asking the pass?ngersTo get in an
those who were seeing them off to come out ^
Nekhludoff entered the hot, smelling carriage but at once
ar?fage°" Nft^li? T '^T ^"^" -^'^^f "^ ^' ''^ ^^^ ^ "'"
carriage Nathalie stood opposite the carriage with her
fashionable bonnet and cape, bv the side of^ AJranhlna
%rrn f ,"'• 7"' '"•^'^"^'>' trying to find somethtng t^sa^^^
lau^hecH tlT. ^^^Vr/^"^'fr ^^^^"^^ they had bng ago
mrf Th t/i's word, habitually spoken bv those about to
part. The short conversation about money matters had in a
moment destroyed the tender brotherlv and sisterlv feel n/s
that had taken hold of them. Thev felt estranged so S
Nathalie was glad when the train moved an 1 shf cou kl onW
bye' '?ot -Ty "DSi''''r."^' ^"^' t;nder look.°"'Soot
P^ssecfi::^ |:-tlSS'of 1^ ^rsroulcTret^t^Cc^o^^
Sous^a^^l iro?bi:r ^° '^ '-'^-^' -^' '-^- ^-I-
f..Hn!^^'^^'"r- ^°°' ^^'°''^^ h« '^a^l "othing but the kindest
eehngs for his sister, and had hidden nothing from her now
?aV'^&TfeT £t rx^/r^f^'^"'^' ^^^^' ^"^ -'"^-> ^
iJdiL. ne leit tnat the Nathalie who was once so near to liim
no onger existed and in her place was only a slave of 3^
hairy unpleasant husband, who was so foreign to him He
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THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF HUMAN LIFE.
The heat in the large third-class carriage, which had been
standing in the burning sun all day. was so great that Nekh-
ludoff did not go in, but stopped on the little platform behind
the carriage which formed a passage to the next one. But
there was not a breath of fresh air here either, and Nekhlu-
dotf breathed freely only when the train had passed the build-
ings and the draught blew across the platform.
"Yes killed," he repeated to himself, the words he had
used to his sister. And in his imagination in the midst of all
other impressions there arose with wonderful clearness the
beautiful face of the second dead convict, with the smile of
the hps, the severe expression of the brows, and the small,
hrm ear below the shaved bluish skull.
And what seemed terrible was that he had been murdered
and no one knew who had murdered him. Yet he had been
murdered. He was led out like all the rest of the prisoners
by Maslennikoff's orders. Maslennikoff had probably given
the order in the usual manner, had signed with his stupid
flourish the paper with the printed heading, and most cer-
tainly would not consider himself guilty. Still less would the
careful doctor who examined the convicts consider himself
guilty. He had performed his duty accurately, and had sep-
arated the weak. How could he have foreseen this terrible
heat, or the fact that they would start so late in the day and
in such crowds? The prison inspector? But the inspector
had only carried into execution the order that on a given dav
a certain number of exiles and convicts— men and women-
had to be sent off. The convoy officer could not be guiltv
either, for his business was to receive a certain number of
persons in a certain place, and to deliver up the same number
He conducted them in the usual manner, and could not fore-
see that two such strong men as those Nekhludoff saw would
not be able to stand it and would die. No one is guiltv
and yet the men have been murdered by these people who are
not guilty of their murder.
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th.f ^ t. ^''; Nekhludofif thought, " from the fact
and ZnT P'^^^^Soyeruors, inspectors, police officers,
and men, consider that there are circumstances in which
human relations are not necessary between human bdngs.
^ol officeT'^^f ^^^'^""^•^^ff' ^"d the inspector, and the co^n-
voy officer, if they were not governor, inspector officer
would have considered twenty times before sending people
m such heat in such a mass-would have stopped twentv
times on the way, and, seeing that a man was growing weak
gasping for breath, would have led him into the shade
would have given him water and let him rest and if an
accident had still occurred they would have expressed pity
doTn^ ,7 K^' °"^^ ,^'^ "°* ^° ''' ^"t hindered others fVom
doing it because they considered not men and their dutv
t^f'^^u l\T' ^'^ °"^y '^' °«^^^ they themselves filled, and
held what that office demanded of them to be above human
thoughts ^'h ' ^'"'J^ is/' Nekhludoflf went on in h's
thoughts If one acknowledges but for a single hour
fenowm'.?'"^ ''" ^' "^^^^ ""P^'-*^"* than love for one"
fellowmen. even in some one exceptional case, any crime
can be committed without a feeling of guilt "
not nnlli'li"^ ""Tu '° ^"F^^^^d by his thoughts that he did
over hv ! ^ 'u^ '^'^'^'' '^'^"^^^- ^^^ «"" ^as <^overed
over by a low-hanging, ragged cloud. A compact, light
feUi^W ^-^ /;^PidJV°"^i"& from the west, and was^al-
far in th f • ? ^^^"^y'^'^y'^S rain on the fields and woods
tar in the distance. Moisture, coming from the cloud
mixed with the air. Now and then the cloud was rem by
flashes of lightning, and peals of thunder mingled more and
r/r' r"^*';! "^''^ '^' [""""^ °^ the train. The cloud came
nearer and nearer, the rain-drops-driven by the wind-
began to spot the platform and Nekhludoflf's coat ; and he
stepped to the other side of the little platform, and. nhaling
artS hTd'f '""r^"^^ ^''^ '}"' ^"^^" of'corn and wef
earth that had long been waiting for rain— he stood looking
^Lfi i/'"'!^"',' *^^ '^°°^'' the yellow rye fields, the green
Jl'l^' the dark-green strips of potatoes in bloom^that
glided past. Everything looked as if covered over with var-
blacrWack^en'" '"'"'"^ ^'""''"'' '^' ^'"°^ y^"°^^^' the
" More! more! "said NekhludofT. gladdened by the sight
of gardens and fields revived by tie beneficent shower. The
shower did not last long. Part of . cloud had come down
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in ram, part passed over, and the last fine drops fell straight
on to the earth. The sun reappear-r', overvthing began to
glisten, and in the east— not \v , hx^h a<. >ve the horizon-
appeared a bright rainbow, vr.iU the -^-let tint very distinct
and broken only at one end.
" Why, what'vvas I thiiJ-'ng about?" Nekhludoff asked
himself when all these changes in nature were over, and the
train ran into a cutting between two high banks.
" Oh ! I was thinking that all those people Onsn»<-f • con-
voy men— all those in the service) are for _c greater part
kind people — cruel only because they are serving." He
recalled MaslennikofT's indifiference when he told him about
what was being dc-ie in the prison, the inspector's severity
the cruelty of the <- jnvoy officer when he refused places on
the carts to those who asked for them, and paid no atten-
tion to the fac that there was a woman in travail in the
train. All these people were evidently invulnerable and
impregnable to th.- simplest feelings of compassion only be-
cause they ^ held offices. " As officials they were im-
permeable to the feelir.gs of humanity, as this paved
ground is impermeable to the rain."' T.us thought
Nekhludofif as he looked at the railway embank-
ment paved with stones c»f different colours, down
which the water was running in streams instead of soaking
into the earth. " Perhaps it is necessary to pave the banks
with stones, but it is sad to look at the ground, which might
be yielding corn, grass, bushes, or trees in the same way n«
the ground visible up there is doing— deprived of vegeta-
tion, and so it is with men," thought Nekhludoff. " Per-
haps these governors, inspectors, policemen, an needed, but
it isterrible to see mendeprive. >f the rliief hui m attribute,
that of love and sympathy for cue another, llie thing is,"'
he continued, " that these people consider lawful what is not
lawful, and do not consider the etprn-l, immutable law, writ
ten in the hearts of men b} God, as law. That ^ . why' I feci
so depressed when I am with these people. I am simply
afraid of them, and really they are terrible, m^ -, terrible
than robbers. A robber might, after all, fepl pity, but they
can feel no pity, they are inured against pi. s t' se stones
are against vegetation. That is hat mak' th terrible.
It is said that the Poagatcheflfs,- the Raziu.. * au terrible.
♦Leaders of rebellions in Russia: Stenka Razin in the 17th and
Pougatcheft in the i8th century.
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thing began to
e the horizon —
nt very distinct
ikhludoff asked
e over, and the
inks.
finsper*:'* con-
..c greater part
serving." He
told him about
actor's severity,
"used places on
paid no atten-
! travail in the
.'ulnerable and
assion only be-
:iey were im-
as this paved
T'.us thought
kvay embank-
:olours, down
ead of soaking
)ave the banks
1, which might
e same way as
^ed of vegeta-
udoff. " Per-
re needed, but
ir an attribute,
Ihe thing is,"
ful what is not
able law, writ-
t '' > why I feei
I am simply
m*^ -, terrible
pity, but they
s t' se stones
thi terrible.
* au terrible.
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hisXuehtV'''-7r^ times more terrible," he continued, in
ms thoughts If a psychological problem were set to f^nd
rkinc To2^ '""} °' °"[ time-ichristian. humani?sin'
pie kind people— perform the most horrible crimes without
feelmg guilty, only one solution could be devised to eo on
pcTpltould 'b "^ '°"" '' '' °"^>' "^— >' t'-tlhes^
people shoud be governors, inspectors, policemen- that
they should be fully convinced that there is a kinTof'busi
ness, called government service, which allows men °o treat
other men as things, without human brotheSy rdatTons
toeetl erIJ'v'th' '''° ^'^^ '''''' ^^^^^^ «^°"'^ be' so linked
W thl ^>,/'^^ government service that the responsibility
for the results of their actions should not fall on any one o^
them separately Without these conditions, the terrible ac?s
I witnessed to-day would be impossible n our mes
all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances
in which one may doal with human beings wkou love and
l'thout''lo"ve"'' circumstances. One n^.ay deal wiu'hing
without love ; one may cut down trees, make bricks ham-
mer iron without love ; but you cannot deal with men wX
out It, just as one cannot deal with bees without being careful
Tf you deal care. '.sly with bees you will injure thern an 1
^v;dl yourself be in,.red. And so'with mj^.' It cannot Se
hurSan^'f T''^ ^'T' '°^" '' '^' fundamental law of
human ,f, It is true that a man cannot force another to
love him, as he can fc , him to work for him? but does
not follow that a ma, may d .1 with men withiut ove es
pecially to detnand .mythi, Vom them. If you flel no
ove, sit still," NekhludofT tu ,ht ; " occupy yourself wi"h
things, with yoursel , with anything you like, only no w th
men You can only eat without injuring yourself wTen
you fee nclined to eat, so you can only dell with men V^e-
fully when you love. Only let yourself deaTwitra man
without love, as I did yesterday with my brothcr-i -iaw ^nd
er.f 11"° ^\T' '° '^' ^"^^""g y°" ^''11 bring on ;our-
hP ff; 1 i^'^d'; yes- '^ ^^ good,- he repeated, enjoying
n . If^ 'T.^^7 the torturing heat, and conscious of hav?
i"c;;;irhim. '"""* ^'^^^"^^^ ^" ^ ^-^^-" ^'-^ ^^^
tl >
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CHAPTER XLI.
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TARAS S STORY.
'^r^/^n"^^^- i" '^'''^^ Nekhludoff had taken his place
was half fil ed with people. There were in it servants work-
ing men, factory han.s. butchers, Jews, shopmen,' work-
men s wives, a soldier two ladies, a young one and an old
one with bracelets on her arm, and a severe-looking gentle-
man with a cockade on his black cap. All these people were
sitting qmetly; the bustle of taking their places was lon^
smnw'inr^^.'^* cracking and eating sunflower seeds, some
smoking, some talking.
, Taras sat, looking very happy, opposite the door, keen-
ing a place for NekhludoflF, and carrying on an an mated
conversation with a man in a cloth coat who sat opposTe to
him and who was, as NekhludofT afterwards found out a
gardener going to a new situation. Before reaching the
place where Taras sat Nekhludofif stopped between the
seats near a reverend-looking old man with a white beard
and nankeen coat, who was talking with a young woman
in peasant dress. A little girl of about seven. drei^dTn a
new peasant costume, sat, her little legs dangling above the
floor by the side of the woman, and kept cricking seeds
1 he o d man turned round, and, seeing NekhludofT he
to him, and said, in a friendly manner:
" Please, here's a seat."
Nekhludoff thanked him, and took the seat. As soon
as he was seated the woman continued the interrupted con-
versation. ^ ^
She was returning to her village, and related how her
town " "^ ^^^" visiting, had received her in
hZ^ r' ^K^""^ during the carnival, and now. by the Lord's
ChrlJj^ TMi' " ^§^^'"'„«he said. " Then, God willing, at
Lhri£tmas 1 11 go again.
with a look at Nekh-
Ihat's right," said the old man.
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aken his place
ervants, work-
opnien, work-
>ne and an old
ooking gentle-
se people were
aces was long
;r seeds, some
le door, keep-
I an animated
iat opposite to
> found out, a
reaching the
between the
a white beard
'oung woman
, dressed in a
ing above the
;king seeds,
ekhludoff, he
led seat next
at. As soon
errupted con-
ited how her
ceived her in
)y the Lord's
d willing, at
ok at Nekh-
ludoff, " it's the bi
kind aC hh;:"'hrs'mrira';'' ' "r- ''° "™^^"- °f -"-
The mone ■ lie e^rns he sen.k l,f tf." ^°™S ".Men'i
who't°asr„^c"rs;nrwl"h';hrjr°''"'; r" "- "--"
.unity of praisr;rh^er"husb 'nd'onc^^nio?^" .^'no"^ °'''T
earth docs not hold many surh " A„,r? • ^°',!"'. «he
faeto^y' vVrre^vL'had'had'r*; ""i "^"' '""'""g -' "-
ried^rSSS;^"-^^
.o^|^|^-«|:^-.oo.^^ed
how «e work' b'u e^e? .n'nf ' ''"f'''^' ^^- "° °"<= ^«»
ea^ed it,, andl^^l-ir/art.^-^tt, /ndX'
"Tr";''st" Mv N?,'''^.'""°ff- "<« knowing what to say.
with nn uS bfca„re,Ve ' 'Tt ''"'""' ' =>■" ^^'i^fi'd
I'm saying! Mivra"" '' ^°' ""■ '^ " "S'" ^h"'
!- I it
i|
lift
,1 I <J
kill
tit
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Mavra laughed and moved her hand with a tipsy gesture
" Oh, my, he's at it again."
" There now, she's that good— that good ; but let her get
her tail over the reins, aad you can't think what she'll be up
to. . . . Is it right what I'm saving? You must excuse
me, sir, I've had a drop ! What's to be done? " said the fac-
tory worker, and, preparing to go to sleep, put his head in his
wife s lap.
Nekhludoff sat a while with the old man, who told him all
about himself. The old man was a stove builder, who had
been working for 53 years, and had built so many stoves that
he had lost count, and now he wanted to rest, but had no
time. He had been to town and found employment for the
young ones, and was now going to the country to see the
people at home. After hearing the old man's story, Nekhlu-
doff went to the place that Taras was keeping for him.
" It's all right, sir ; sit down ; we'll put the bag here," said
the gardener, who sat opposite Taras, in a friendly tone
looking up into Nekhludofif's face.
" Rather a tight fit, but no matter since we are friends,"
said Taras, smiling, and lifting the bag, which weighed more
than five stone, as if it were a feather, he carried it across to
the window.
" Plenty of room ; besides, we might stand up a bit ; and
even under the seat it's as comfortable as you could wish.
What's the good of humbugging?" he said, beaming with
friendliness and kindness.
Taras spoke of himself as being unable to utter a word
\vhen quite sober ; but drink, he said, helped him to find the
right words, and then he could express everything. And in
reality, when he was sober Taras kept silent ; but when he
had been drinking, which happened rarelv and only on special
occasions, he became very pleasantly talkative. Then he
spoke a great deal, spoke well and very simply and truth-
fully, and especially with great kindliness, which shone in his
gentle, blue eyes and in the friendly smile that never left his
hps. He was in such a state to-day. Nekhludoff's approach
interrupted the conversation ; but when he had put the bag in
its place, Taras sat down again, and with his strong hands
folded in his lap. and looking straight into the gardener's
face, continued his story. He was telling his new acquaint-
ance .ahnut hi'^- wife and giving every detail : what she was
bemg sent to Siberia for, and why he was now following-
th a tipsy gesture.
)d ; but let her get
: what she'll be up
You must excuse
ne ? " said the fac-
put his head in his
, who told him all
builder, who had
) many stoves that
rest, but had no
iployment for the
ountry to see the
I's story, Nekhlu-
ing for him.
le bag here," said
a friendly tone,
we are friends,"
ich weighed more
arried it across to
nd up a bit ; and
you could wish.
id, beaming with
to utter a word
d him to find the
rything. And in
:nt; but when he
id only on special
:ative. Then he
imply and truth-
'hich shone in his
bat never left his
ludoff's approach
ad put the bag in
his strong hands
o the gardener's
is new acquaint-
1 : what she was
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her. Nekhludoff had never heard r, ri^^oju^
affair, and so he listened with imerestWh/''.°""' °^ '^''
the story had reached the pofnwheTihe^Uemnf .'"""'• "P'
was a readv an accomnli^hpH Vo.f i l . '"P^ *o PO'so"
covered .ha. i. w^rXheSslVdls ''""' "'" "'"
1. s abou. my .roubles tha. I'm talkinir » „i,i t •
chS t? ^e'ttl tc'hTf ^^' fr^n^fness^^'^. 7f-fe
into conve.atio:.rnd?m"t:LVhrair'^"' ^"' ^^'^ ^°^
^^ I see," said Nekhludoff.
kno^r^Mother"sh'j taS th^a^ 't"'' ?^ '"^^"^^ ^^^^-^
' to the police officer 'Mv tl '' • ^ "' ^T^' ^^^^ ^^e,
wife ' savs hi '7h V-..1 ^ ^. '^ ^ J"st old man. ' Wait
iTer^df '^now What's^e :rr'" " \.T'' ^^''^' ^"^ did not
may come t^ er s uses ' t^%.7^' "^"'* 'V"^^ P'^^" She
hear of it. ' While wpW.^i' f "]e, mother would not
destroy us all Hke co'krorches '' W.li f ' T^' ' ^^^ "^^^^
off for the police officer R^h "' •^'''"^' '° ^'^^ ^^^s
Calls for witnesses " °""''' '" "P°" »« ^^ once.
;; Well, and you -'asked the gardener.
stom'^ch 'and- vom't^' AlT^;t f^"^ f''' V^^ P^'" - -^
can't even speak Well ofatlerhV' '"'"'^' "^'^^ °"t; I
-are. and p'uts Theodos a nto'he cTrf a'nd TT^ ^'"
police-station, and then to the n agistrat'e's And f, '° '^'^
know, ji'st as she had done from ihf fircf ,1 ^^'^' ^^^
fcssps 3ll to the matis^rpfP T ? ^*' '° ^^'° ^^^^re, con-
l^ow she kneaded the cake 'W^' r'f ^°' ^^^^''^^^ic. and
' Whv.' savs she ' b' ca^; h.'^^/;' ''°" ^° ^'- ' ^^^^ '^e.
heria to a life v^ih 1^;^^^^,!^^ n"?' nlT^LLS^ '"
and STeu^nratr/^i ^l'''^ -"-1^?:' prison, •
-tt;-^^L~S^S^
So father went to see an nffl.fai SS ''^4^°^ '^^'^ ^^^r out?
think he went to Le of thei^';^^i ^'^&o. Then another. I
Then we happ^ene^to 'S ac"^^^^^^^^^
one as vou don't often finri ' v • "^'^^^T^^ch an artful
I'll get her out 'savs he fT. " P'^',"'.^ ^^^ '"o^'bles. and
and^hat Co:&\r^^r'^A'''' ^'^Ti f^"'
she herself had woven ^n/i L 1 • ? '^ pawned the linen
as he had ^^:^^^:-^^^l;^ .As soon
't
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he were speaking of a shot being fired, " we succeeded at
once. I went to fetch her myself. Well, friend, so I got to
town, put up the mare, took the paper, and went to the
prison. ^ ' What do you want?' 'This is what I want.' say
1, you ve got my wife here in prison.' ' And have you got a
paper ? I gave him. the paper. He gave it a look. ' Wait,'
says he. So I sat down on a bench. It was already past
noon by the sun. An official comes out. ' You are Var-
goushoff ? ' ' I am.' ' Well, you may take her.' The gates
opened,^ and they led her out in her own clothes quite all
right. Well, come along. Have you come on foot ? ' 'No
I have the horse here.' So I went and paid the ostler, and
harnessed, put in all the hay that was left, and covered it with
sacking for her to sit on. She got in and wrapped her shawl
round her, and off we drove. She says nothing and I say
nothing. Just as we were coming up to the house she savs.
And how s mother ; is she alive ? ' ' Yes, she's alive.' ' And
father ; IS he alive? ' ' Yes, he is.' ' Forgive me, Taras,' she
says, for my folly. I did not myself know what I was do-
ing. So I say, ' Words won't mend matters. I have for-
given you long ago,' and I said no more. We got home, and
she just fell at mother's feet. Mother says, ' The Lord will
forgive you.' And father said, ' How d'you do?' and
What s past is past. Live as best you can. Now,' says he
' IS not the time for all that ; there's the harvest to be gathered
in down at Skorodino,' he savs. ' Down on the manured
acre, by the Lord's help, the ground has borne such rye that
the sickle can't tackle it. It's all interwoven and heavy, and
has sunk b'.neath its weight ; that must be reaped. You and
Taras had better go and see to it to-morrow.' Well, friend
from that moment she took to the work and worked so that
•every one wondered. At that time we rented three desiatins
and by God's help we had a wonderful crop both of oats and
rye. I mow and she binds the sheaves, and sometimes we
both of us reap. I am good at work and not afraid of it
but she's better still at whatever she takes up. She's a smart
woman, young, and full of life ; and as to work, friend, she'd
grown that eager that I had to stop her. We get home, our
fingers swollen, our arms aching, and she, instead of resting,
rushes off to the barn to make binders for the sheaves for
next day. Such a change ! "
"Well, and to you? Was she kinder, now?" asked the
gardener.
we succeeded at
riend, so I got to
and went to the
/hat I want,' say
id have you got a
: a look. 'Wait,'
was already past
' You are Var-
her,' The gates
clothes quite all
: on foot ? ' 'No,
d the ostler, and
d covered it with
rapped her shawl
)thing and I say
; house she says,
le's alive.' * And
2 me, Taras,' she
what I was do-
rs. I have for-
''e got home, and
' The Lord will
'you do ? ' and
Now,' says he,
St to be gathered
Dn the manured
ne such rye that
and heavy, and
aped. You and
.' Well, friend,
worked so that
three desiatins,
oth of oats and
d sometimes wc
lot afraid of it.
She's a smart
rk, friend, she'd
e get home, our
stead of resting,
the sheaves for
w ? " asked the
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one Jouf NtteH' Sk f '" ''?^' *° ^' -^ ^^ we were
angry as she was cou d '^^^^^^^^^^^ '^^r'^'^f: ^^^" "^^'h^r
odosia had been ransfniml i ^i ^^'"^- ^^^ ^s if our The-
now I ' We werfonce g" n J ^^T^ ^ ,^^^--* wo-a"
carts. She and I were hi t"fe fir.? ^^^r '^^'^^^^ ^'^h two
you think of doing that ThlnM •' f""^ ^,'^^' ' ^ow could
could r think of i?f Just loumf: ^"^ ^^e says, ' How
I thought I'd rather die than 1 ' u'^'''' *° ^'^^ ^ith you.
now ? 'and she sa^s, ' Now yoX^'in J"^ ' \ '^y' ' And
stopped, and smiled oyfuZ shoo^ h T ^^^'^- " Taras
"Hardly had we go/?£ fest ?o-^' ^ 't' '^ '"'P'"'^^^-
the hemp, and when I got home he^. '^^'" ^ ^""* *« ^oak
must go to be tried and wV h°^ / ! "^^^ ^ summons, she
ter^that she was to be tried for '''■^°'''" "" ^'^^^^ '^' mat-
it can only be the evil one " sairl fh^ i
any man of himself think nf 1 said the gardener. " Could
had a fellow on^e— ''" J thp °^'"^ ' ^'^^"^ ^°"I? We
mence his tale when the Z'^S^tllT ^'°"' '^ --
and lllT^rll''' ^°"^^"^ ^° "-^^^^'^"^^ said. '^ I,, ,„
gar^'rrSth-e ?aSe ^o t'''"?°1^ 'f^^^' ^^e
station. «-drriage onto the wet platform of the
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CHAPTER XLII.
LE VRAI GRAND MONDE.
Before Nekhludoff got out he had noticed in the station
yard several elegant equipages, some with three, some with
l?^u' well-fed horses, with tinkling bells on their harness.
When he stepped out on the wet, dark-coloured boards of
the platform, he saw a group of people in front of the first-
class carriage, among whom were conspicuous a stout ladv
with costly feathers on her hat, and a waterproof, and a tall
thin-legged young man in a cycling suit. The young man
had by his side an enormous, well-fed dog, with a valuable
collar. Behind them stood footmen, holding wraps and
umbrellas, and a coachman, who had also come to meet the
train.
On the whole of the group, from the fat lady down to
the coachman who stood holding up his long coat, there
lay the stamp of wealth and quiet self-assurance. A curious
and servile crowd rapidly gathered round this group— the
station-master, in his red cap, a gendarme, a thin voung
lady in a Russian costume, with beads round her neck, who
made a point of seeing the trains come in all through the
summer, a telegraph clerk, and passengers, men and women
In the young man with the dog Nekhludoflf recognised
young Korchagin, a gymnasium student. The fat lady was
the Princess's sister, to whose estate the Korchagins were
now moving. The guard, with his gold cord and shinv top-
boots, opened the carriage door and stood holding' it as
a sign of deference, while Philip and a porter with a white
apron carefully carried out the long-faced Princess in her
folding chair. The sisters greeted each other, and French
sentences began flying about. Would the Princess go in
a closed or an open carriage? At last the procession started
towards the exit, the lady's maid, with her curlv fringe
parasol and leather case in the rear. ' '
Nekhludoff, not wishing to meet them and to have to take
leave over again, stopped before he got to the door waitin^^
for the procession to pass. ^ ' '^
iced in the station
I three, some with
on their harness.
oloured boards of
front of the first-
uous a stout ladv
rproof, and a tall,
The young man
r, with a valuable
Iding- wraps and
come to meet the
fat lady down to
long coat, there
ranee, A curious
this group — the
le, a thin young
id her neck, who
I all through the
men and women,
lidoff recognised
The fat lady was
Korchagins were
•d and shiny top-
)d holding it as
ter with a white
Princess in her
her, and French
Princess go in
rocession started
er curly fringe,
1 to have to take
he dnor, waiting
The Princess, her
r?'^ °"t first, the old Princelnci h
behmd. NekhludoflF was too far to
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TH„?!''S,*f.'?°"°^?"d the maid
s sister-in-law remained
few-cHsco;n;c;;d''F;eS s™.enceror,t -^"^"""^ ""' ^
n™., „,„ „ rr„zs: a;7"he'Totd'oT ^
of the station with his sis eHn'S""' '°'"= "^ '" ^^^"' °"'
respectful guards and porters '^'"' ^'=™™P='™<!<1 hy the
sud''denlra;pea":?acrowd'of';;t?^ ^°™^^ ?' '"e station
ing sheepsi^in ecats and^ar^vir h,"^™ '".u"'^ t''""' "«='^-
worl<men went un tn tS ^ ^ ^^ °" *«"■ ^aclis. The
de.ern,i„edTe;s"''an5 weV'S ^ot^^'Z ^°" •-'
once driven away by a euard W f t.!. F '• "^"^ ^^^'"^ ^^
men passed on, hurr^nea nd )! i ^ ''°PP'"^' *^^ '^^'^-
next carriage ^nd bS Jelw '"^ one another, to the
against the corners and donr^/.,'"' "^'"^'"^ ^^'^'' bags
guard caught sigh o? them f °om ILT'"^"'. ^"' ^"°^'^?'-
and shouted at theni severeK ri ""'i* °^ *^'^ ^^ation,
already got in, hurrLd ont/^ V"^ workmen, who had
soft and firm 'st^ps still fSr?"^ ""T'Jr"' ^^^^ ^^e same
riage. A guard was ^ipJn^- '''''^'■''' ^ekhludoflF's car-
doff said S^T.vZsJ^yiZ^'''. ''? *^T' ^"t N^^hlu-
better get in. Aey obeyed Ld^/-'''l'',f"^ '^""^ ^^^^ l^^d
doff. ^ °''^>^^'' ^"^1 &ot m, followed by Nekhlu-
Jt?em:°^l:rthTc«fara'nVtt t'''*, T^' ""^ «"=
this attempt to settleTn heir car a^T. '"*"■ '""l^'"? ^'
to themselves, indignant vnrntJ.f I " P^^ona' insult
.hem out. Tlie worl^^: 'l.E^^'e ^Z^'' .*->'«' to turn
and quite young- ones all nf Til ° ?* *"^"^' old men
hagglrd fa^ces^^egan at once to nir''''^','""''"'-"^' ^'^h
riage, catching the seats the L?k^^ ?" ^^3^°"^^^ ^^^ ^^'-
bags. They fviden ly fVt th^v L'n^V'^' T?" ^^^^ th^'>
and seemed rcadv to tr^ 1 • T i • P^^er-I^) ,n some way
ordered to go ^ ° ^° °" indefinitely ;.herev'er they vveTe
shot,^^^;^/^ P"^'^^§^ to. you fiend. ^ '..t down he^e "
u ,7 ..7 "^"^^ guaiu ihey met. '
yo„a encore des nouieUes." excl.imed the younger of
i :
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the two ladies, quite convinced that she would attract Nekh-
ludoflf's notice by her good French,
The other lady with the bracelets kept sniffing and making
faces, and remarked something about how pleasant it was
to sit with smelly peasants.
The workmen, who felt the joy and calm experienced
by people who have escaped some kind of danger, threw off
their heavy bags with a movement of their shoulders and
stowed them away under the seats.
The gardener had left his own seat to talk with Taras,
and now went back, so that there were two unoccupied seats
opposite and one next to Taras. Three of the workmen took
these seats, but when Nekhludoff came up to them, in his
gentleman's clothing, they got so confused that they rose
to go away, but Nekhludoff asked them to stay, and himself
sat down on the arm of the seat, by the passage down the
middle of the carriage.
One of the workmen, a man of about 50, exchanged a
surprised and even frightened look with a young man. That
Nekhludoff, irlstead of scolding and driving them away, as
was natural to a gentleman, should give up his seat to them,
astonished and perplexed them. They even feared that this
might have some evil result for them.
However, they soon noticed that there was no underlying
plot when they heard Nekhludoff talking quite simply with
Taras, and they grew quiet and told one of the lads to sit
down on his bag and give his seat to Nekhludoff. At first
the elderly workman who sat opposite Nekhludoff shrank
and drew back his legs for fear of touching the gentleman,
but after a while he grew quite friendly, and in talking
to him and Taras even slapped Nekhludoff on the knee
when he wanted to draw special attention to what he was
saying.
He told them all about his position and his work in the
peat bogs, whence he was now returning home. He had
been working there for two and a half months, and was
bringing home his wages, which only came to 10 roubles,
since part had been paid beforehand when he was hired.
They worked, as he explained, up to their knees in water
from sunrise to sunset, with two hours' interval for dinner.
" Those who are not used to it find it hard, of course,"
he said ; " but when one's hardened it doesn't matter, if
only the food is right. At first the food
1 1
was jjiiu.
Lut
icr
Id attract Nekh-
fing and making
pleasant it was
ilm experienced
mger, threw off
r shoulders and
alk with Taras,
moccupied seats
e workmen took
to them, in his
that they rose
tay, and himself
ssage down the
o, exchanged a
•ung man. That
them away, as
lis seat to them,
feared that this
s no underlying
lite simply with
• the lads to sit
udoff. At first
:hludoff shrank
the gentleman,
and in talking
ff on the knee
o what he was
lis work in the
lome. He had
Dnths, and was
: to lo roubles,
he was hired,
knees in water
rval for dinner,
ird, of course,"
jsn't matter, if
ras bad. Later
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the people complained, and they got good food, and it was
easy to .work.
Then he told them how, during 28 years he went out to
7hJnL^u '?]^ all his earnings home. First to his father,
then to his eldest brother, and now to his nephew, who was
at the head of the household. On himself he spent only
two or three roubles of the 50 or 60 he earned a year, just
for luxuries— tobacco and matches. ^
" I'm a sinner when tired I even drink a little vodka
sometimes," he added, with a guilty smile.
Then he told them how the women did the work at home
^"^7, w^^^ contractor had treated them to half a pail of
vodka before they started to-day, how one of them had died
and another was returning home ill. The sick workman
he was talking about was in a corner of the same carriage
He was a young lad, with a pale, sallow face and bluish li|s'.
He was evidently tormented by intermittent fever NekhKi-
doff went up to him, but the lad looked up with such a severe
and suffering expression that Nekhludoff did not care to
bother him with questions, but advised the elder man to mve
him quinine, and wrote down the name of the medicine.
He wished to give him some money, but the old workman
said he would pay for it himself.
" Well, much as I have travelled, I have never met such
a gentleman before. Instead of punching your h^^ad he
actually gives up his place to you," said the old maA to
- v' u- s^^"is .there are all sorts of gentlefolk, too."
\T 1 M'^^ this IS quite a new and different world," thought
Nekhludoff, looking at these spare, sinewy, limbs, coarse,
home-made garments, and sunburnt, kindly, though wearv-
lookmg faces, and feeling himself surrounded on all sides
with new people and the serious interests, joys, and suffer-
ings of a life of labour.
" Here is le vrai grand monde," thought Nekhludoff
remembering the words of Prince Korchagin and all that
Idle luxurious world to which the Korchagins belonged,
with their petty, mean interests. And he felt the joy of
worTd''^ on discovering a new, unknown, and beautiful
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J
MASLOVA MAK! S NEW FRIENDS.
The gang of prisoners to which Maslov.T belonged had
walked about three thousand three hundred miles. She and
the other prisoners condemned for criminal offences had
travelled by rail and by steamboats as far as the town of
Perm. Tt was only here that ^'ekhludoff succeeded in ob-
taining a permission for her to continue the journey with the
political prisoners, as Vera Doukhova, who was among the
latter, advised him to do. The journey up to Perm had been
very trying to Maslova both morally and physically. Phvsi-
cally, because of the overcrowding, the dirt, and the dis-
gusting vermin, which gave her no peace ; morally, because of
the equally disgusting men. The men, like the vermin,
though the;- changed at each halting-place, were everywhere
alike importunate; they swarmed round her, giving her no
rest. Among the women prisoners and the men prisoners,
the jailers and the convoy soldiers, the habit of a kind of
cynical debauch was so firmly established that unless a fe-
male prisoner was willing to utilise her position as a woman
she had to be constantly on the watch. To be continually in
a state of fear and strife was very trying-. And Maslova was
specially exposed to attacks, her' appearance being attractive
and her past known to every one. The decided resistance
with which she now met the importunity of all the men
seemed offensive to them, and awakened another feeling, that
of ill-will towards her. But her position was made a little
easier by her intimacy with Theodosia, and Theodosia's hus-
band, who, having heard of the molestations his wife was
subject to, had in Nijni been arrested at his own desire in
order to be able to protect her, and was now travelling
with the gang as a prisoner. Maslova's position became
much more bearable when she was allowed to join the politi-
cal prisoners, who were provided with better accommoda-
tions, better food, and weVe treated less rudely, but besides
all this Maslova's condition was much improved because
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among the political prisoners she was no longer molested by
the men, and could live without being reminded of that past
which she was so anxious to forget. But the chief advantage
of the change lay in the fact that she made the acquaintance
of several persons who exercised a decided and most ben-
eficial influence on her character. Maslova was allowed to
stop with the political prisoners at all the halting-places, but
being a strong and healthy woman she was obliged to march
with the criminal convicts. In this way she walked all the
way from Tomsk. Two political prisoners also marched
with the gang, Mary Pavlovna Schetinina, the girl with the
hazel eyes who had attracted Nekhludoflf 's attention when he
had been to visit Doukhova in prison, and one Simonson, who
was on his way to the Takoutsk district, the dishevelled dark
young fellow with deep-lying eyes, whom Nekhludoff had
also noticed during that visit. Mary Pavlovna was walking
because she had given her place on the cart to one of the
criminals, a woman expecting to be confined, and Simonson
because he did not dare to avail himself of a class privilege.
These three always started early in the morning before the
rest of the political prisoners, who followed later on in the
carts.
They were ready to start in this way just outside a large
town, where a new convoy officer had taken charge of the
gang.
It was early on a dull September morning. It kept raining
and snowing alternately, and the cold wind blew in sudden
gusts. The whole gang of prisoners, consisting of four hun-
dred men and fifty women, was already assembled in the
court of the halting station. Some of them were crowding
round the chief of the convoy, who was giving to specially
appointed prisoners money for two days' keep to distribute
among the rest, while others were purchasing food from
women who had been let into the courtyard. One could hear
the voices of the prisoners counting their money and making
their purchases, and the shrill voices of the women with the
food.
Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fast-
ened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a veg-
etarian and would not wear the skin of slaughtered animals),
was also in the courtyard waiting for the gang to start. He
stood by the porch and jotted down in his notebook a thought
that had occurred to him. This was what he wrote : " If a
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423
mger molested by
tided of that past
e chief advantage
the acquaintance
;d and most ben-
a was allowed to
lalting-places, but
obliged to march
rie walked all the
:rs also marched
the girl with the
ittention when he
le Simonson, who
: dishevelled dark
Nekhludoff had
vna was walking
irt to one of the
d, and Simonson
a class privilege.
Drning before the
d later on in the
it outside a large
sn charge of the
. It kept raining
I blew in sudden
ting of four hun-
issembled in the
1 were crowding
ving to specially
eep to distribute
ising food from
One could hear
)ney and making
women with the
bacteria watched and examined a human nail it would pro'-
nounce it inorganic matter, and thus we, examining our
globe and watching its crust, pronounce it to be inorganic.
This is incorrect.''
Katusha and Mary Pavlovna, both wearing top-boots and
with shawls tied round their heads, came out of the building
into the courtyard where the women sat sheltered from the
wind by the northern wall of the court, and vied with one an-
other, offering their goods, hot meat pie, fish, vermicelli,
Ixick wheat porridge, liver, beef, eggs, milk. One had even a
roast pig to offer.
Having bought some eggs, bread, fish, and some rusks,
Maslova was putting them into her bag, while Mary Pav-
lovna was paying the women, when a movement arose among
the convicts. All were silent and took their places. The
officer came out and began giving the last orders before start-
mg. Everything was done in the usual manner. The pris-
oners were counted, the chains on their legs examined, and
those who were to march in couples linked together with
manacles. But suddenly the angry, authoritative voice of the
officer shouting something was heard, also the sound of a
blow and the crying of a child. All was silent for a moment
and then came a hollow murmur from the crowd. Maslova
and Mary Pavlovna advanced towards the spot whence the
noise proceeded.
1'i ;i
IM
,
r overshoes fast-
s (he was a veg-
htered animals),
ng to start. He
tehnok a thought
he wrote : " If a
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CHAPTER II.
AN INCIDENT OF THE MARCH.
caleuJ'fnlh^ ^^^'^ ^^''^°''"? ^"^ ^^*"^h^ '^"^ when they
came up to the scene wlience the noise proceeded. The offi-
cer a sturdy fellow, with fair moustaches, stood uttering
words of foul and coarse abuse, and rubbing with h s left
the palm of his right hand, which he had hurt in hit ng a
f riJ'u'i" '^ ^i"- ^" ^'•^"t of 'I'm a thin, tall convfct
with ha f his head shaved and dressed in a cloak too short for
h.m and trousers much too short, stood wiping hTs bleeding
face with one hand, and holding a little shrieking girl wrLp?
ped in a shawl with the other. ^ ^
" I'll give it you " (foul abuse) ; " I'll teach you to reason "
t roffict""? k?°";," '' ^'^''r'- ^^^ wo^°enr Thomed
tne otticer. Now, then, on with them."
Ihe convict, who was exiled by the Commune had been
carrying his little daughter all the way from Tomsk where
his wife had d^d of typhus, and now the officer ordered him
carrv tT^flff'-f V'' '"^^^'^ explanation that he could nS
carry the child il he was manacled irritated the officer who
prTsrnrrVbeatiir/*' P T^T ^"' ^^ ^^^ ^^e troSs^m^ '
prisoner a beating.-^ Before the injured convict stood a
one haLtl;id f l' black-bearded prisoner with manact .
one hand and a look of gloom on his face, which he turne.'
Thl'' ^ ''^'''' now to the prisoner with the little gir"
awly the HH Th'.''"^ ^'' ^'"^''"^ ^°^ '^' soldiers^to take
louder ^ "'"""' ''""'"^ ^^^ prisoners grew
l,J.V^" *^-^ ''r^ ^'■°"' '^^°"''^ tbey were not put on," came a
not "y^; '^" ^°"^ °"^ '" *^^ --• " It's a child, and
saidTome on" le' "'' ^'^ ''''''' ^'^'^ ^^ '^^ ^-,"
'' Who's that ? " shouted the officer as if he had been stuno-
and rushed into the crowd. "^'
" I'll teach you the law. Who spoke. You? You? "
*A fact described by Lineff in his Transportation.
CH.
ha saw when they
iceeded. The offi-
2s, stood uttering
jing with his left
hurt in hitting a
thin, tall convict.
:loak too short for
iping his bleeding
•ieking girl wrap-
:h you to reason "
vomen ! " shouted
nmune, had been
m Tomsk, where
Ificer ordered him
hat he could not
1 the officer, who ,
i the troublesome
ivict stood a
vith manaclt
which he turned
:he little girl,
soldiers to take
prisoners grew
put on," came a
It's a child, and
t's not the law,"
• had been stung,
)u? You?"
portation.
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said a short, broad-
"Everybody says so, because —
faced prisoner.
^^ Before he had finished speaking the officer hit him in the
" Mutiny is it? I'll show you what mutiny means I'll
too thr^/l 't'J^^^ ^°?\^"^ '^' authorities wiH be onl"
too thankful. Take the girl."
the^^irr^^i "^'^ '^^'"'' -^"^ ?°"^°y ^°^^'^^ Polled away
manfded Vhl 7"' '""'^T'"^ desperately, while another
iTand P^soner, who now submissively held out his
his'sltd belt!° ''' "°"'"'" ^^^°"^^^ ^^^ ^«^-''' ^™g-g
The little girl, whose face had grown quite red, was trying
unc^asmg y. Mary Pavlovna stepped out from among the
crowd and came up to the officer. «»"«uiit, me
" Will you allow me to carry the little girl? " she said
;; Who rre you? "asked the officer. s^e said.
A political prisoner."
• ^f"^ Paylovn-.'s handsome face, with the beautiful prom-
inent eyes he had noticed her before when the prisCrs
afd ' T dn?'^ ^* ^Z '".';'"""" ""^ '^ considering, then
said I don t care ; carry her if you like. It is easy for you
to show pity ; if he ran away who would have to ansvver ''^
said MaV?t1ovna"" '"'' "^^' '''' '""^^ '^ '"^ --^?"
'' Sh.TT"c2v''T 'V^\ "^'^^yon. Take her if you like."
^^ Jhall I give her ? asked the soldier.
Yes. give her."
chJlcrrcomerCr" """^ '''^'°™^' ''^'"^ '° »- *e
But the child in the soldier's arms stretched herself
goTotarrpfJi^^n^"' ^°""™^'' '° ---' "■"• -"" "°'
.J*t % ^'u 1'"^''' Maslova, and when she saw her face
and the rusk she let her take her. All was quiet TheVates
were opened, and the gang stepped out, the^onvoy coumed
S tl?e carTthe" 'f "' '}''. ^^^l"^''^^ ^^^^'^^ ^"^ tied on
to the carts, the weak seated on the top. Maslova with the
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child in her arms took her place among the women next to
I lieodosia. bimonson, who had all the time been watching
what was going on, stepped with large, determined strides up
to the officer, who, naving given his orders, was just getting
into a trap, and said, " You have behaved badly."
^1 Get to your place; it is no business of yours."
' It is my business to tell you that you have behaved badly
and 1 have said it," said Simonson, looking intently into the
othcer s face trom under his bushy eyebrows
"Ready ? March ! " the officer called out, paying no heed
to bimonson, and, taking hold of the driver's shoulder he
got into the trap. The gang started and spread out as it
stepped on to the muddy high road with ditches on each
side, which passed through a dense forest
Ml Mf^
le womfin next to
ne been watching
Tmined strides up
, was just getting
('Ours,"
ive behaved badly
r intently into the
/s.
t, paying no heed
er's shoulder, he
spread out as it
ditches on each
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CHAPTER III.
MARY PAVLOVNA.
In spite of the hard conditions in which they were placed
life among the political prisoners seemed very good to
iTuA ,^^i'- ^^' deP/aved, luxurious and effeminate life
she had led m town for the last six years, and after tu^
months imprisonment with criminal prisoners. The fifteen to
twenty miies they did per day, with one day's rest after two
u^^ "?fu "J'"^' strengthened her physically, and the fellow-
ship with her new companions opened out to her a life full
of interests such as she had never dreamed of. People so
wonderful (as she expressed it) as those whom sh? was
now gcing with she had not only never met but could not
even have imagined.
" "There now and I cried when I was sentenced," she said.
Why, I must thank God for it all the days of mv life I
have learned to know what I never should have found out
The motives she understood easily and without effort that
guided these people, and, being of the people, fully symna-
hised with them. She understood that^hese persons^ 3e
for the people and against the upper classes, and though
themselves belonging to the upper classes had sacrificed
tlieir privileges, their liberty and their lives for the people
1 his especia ly made her value and admire them. She vvas
charmed with all the new companions, but particularly with
Mary Pavlovna, and she was not only charmed with her
but loved her with a peculiar, respectful and rapturous love.'
She was struck by the fact that this beautiful girl, the
daughter of a rich general, who could speak three languages
gave away all that her rich brother sent her, and lived like
the simplest working girl, and dressed not only simply but
poorly, paying no heed to her appearance. This trait and
a complete absence of coquetry was particularly surprising
and therefore attractive to Maslova. Maslova could see that
Mary Pavlovna knew, and was even pleased to know, that
she was handsome, and yet the effect her appearance had
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on men was not at all pleasing^ to her; she was even afraid
ot It, and felt an absolute disgust to all love affairs Her
men companions knew it, and if they felt attracted bv her
never permitted themselves to show it to her. but treated
her as they would a man ; but with strangers, who often
molested her the great physical strength on which she
prided herself stood her in good stead.
" It happened once," she said to Katusha, " that a man
followed me in the street and would not leave me on anv
account. At last I gave him such a shaking that he was
frightened and ran away."
She became a revolutionary, as she said, because she felt
a dishke to the life of the well-to-do from childhood up,
and loved the life of the common people, and she was always
jjeing scolded for spending her time in the servants' hall
m the kitchen or the stables instead of the drawing-room '
And 1 found it amusing to be with cooks and the coach-
men and dull with our gentlemen and ladies," she said
then when I came to understand things I saw that our
life was altogether wrong; I had no mother and I did not
care for my father, and so when I was nineteen I left home
and went with a girl friend to work as a factory hand " '
After she left the factory she lived in the country, then
returned to town and lived in a lodging, where they had
a secret printing press. There she was arrested and sen-
tenced to hard labour. Mary Pavlovna said nothing about it
herself, but Katusha heard from others that Mary Pavlovna
was sentenced because, when the lodging was searched by
the pc.ice and^one of the revolutionists fired a shot in the
<lark, she pleaded guilty.
As soon as she had learned to know Mary Pavlovna Ka-
tusha noticed that, whatever the conditions she found herself
in, Mary Pavlovna never thought of herself, but was always
anxious to serve, to help some one, in matters small or great
One of her present companions, Novodvoroff, said of her
that she devoted herself to philanthropic amusements. And
this was true. The interest of her whole life lay in the
search for opportunities of serving others. This kind of
amusement had become the habit, the business of her life
And she did It all so naturally that those who knew her no
longer valued, but simply expected it of her.
When Maslova first came among them, Mary Pavlovna
telt repulsed and disgusted. Katusha noticed this, but she
e was even afraid
love affairs. Her
t attracted by her
3 her, but treated
:ngers, who often
th on which she
5ha, " that a man
leave me on any
king that he was
, because she felt
)m childhood up,
id she was always
he servants' hall,
drawing-room,
ks and the coach-
ladies," she said.
s I saw that our
er and I did not
Jteen I left home,
factory hand."
the country, then
where they had
rrested and sen-
nothing about it
t Mary Pavlovna
was searched by
ed a shot in the
y Pavlovna, Ka-
she found herself
, but was always
rs small or great,
foff, said of her
nusements. And
i life lay in the
. This kind of
ness of her life,
ho knew her no
Mary Pavlovna
:ed this, but she
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?edinTs'''Marfp'^r'"^ "/'^'^ "^ ^^^'"^ '^ ^-^'•^^•^e these
kind to her Th^? ""r^ ''"'^"'.^ P^'-t'^^Jarly tender and
felt to sexTanove^Th'''" ",™''u' ^>'.""' '■'=P"''i°" "«y b""'
exoerienrJ^I ". ?^-?' , ""^ ™' '?^"'^'' *« kind of love, having
enreH it ill, i " •°"°"' "'^ "'her, never liavini; evneri?
thelame ,t', T " "' ^'"'^'hinff incomprehensibfe and at
humaTdigi;";. '' '"""'""S ^^P"S"»»' -'<• off™-ve to
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SIMONSON,
mineTJi'''^''^''''\ '"^^"f^was one that Maslova sub-
^flntn A ^'T'^ she loved Mary Pavlovna. Simonson
influenced her because he loved her
Everybody lives and acts partly" according to his own
pa tly according to other people's, ideas. This is what con^
st.tutes one of he great differences among men. To some
a Tnt"i:re\'fl"v' f T^"^l^ ^^"^' ^^^^^^^^^ their reason
as It It were a fly-wheel without a connecting strap and are
o"£- while otf"? I' other people's icfeas.'b'/custom
or laus, while others look upon their own ideas as the chief
SileVoTtLir '" '^''' actions and always listen to th
d ctates of their own reason and submit to it. accepting
other people's opinions only on rare occasions and afte?
weighing them critically. Simonson was an an of the la e
ea ^n 'and" 1 T' "'.f 'f ^"^'"'^^^"^^ ^^'^'^'^^^ *« '^i« own
reason and acted on the decisions he arrived at. When a
schoolboy he made up his mind that his father's income
gain d and^hnnff 1 .'".^r^T^"'- °«^^^' ^^« dishonestly
gamed, and he told his father that t ought to be Hven tn
the people. When his father, instead of^istening^to him
gave him a scolding, he left his father's house and wo iTd
not make use of his father's means. Having come tT le
conclusion that all the existing misery was a^resSt of the
people's Ignorance, he joined the socialists, who earned on
St?^fH"'''.""'°y^ '^' P^°P'^' ^' «°o" a« he left the unfver"
TtS f 1^ A P^^u^ ^' ^ ^'"^^^ schoolmaster. He taught
and explained to his pupils and to the peasants wha? he
tmjuf'H? tr'' '"A°P^"J^ blamed'what he Though
tmjust. He was arrested and tried. During his trial
^nr TuT^ '^''" ^'' j"^^^« that his was a% t cau e
for which he ought not to be tried or punished. When the
judges paid no heed to his words, but went on with the"r al
he decided not to answer them and kept resolute v silent
^nt of ^T'''""^'t'™- .^^ ^'^ -'^d rlhetov n-
ment of Archangel. There he formulated a religious teach-
lat Maslova sub-
)vna. Simonson
ling to his own,
rhis is what con-
men. To some,
reat their reason
ig strap, and are
deas, by custom
deas as the chief
ays listen to th^.
to it, accepting
isions and after
nan of the latter
-ding to his own
ed at. When a
father's income,
was dishonestly
1 to be given to
stening to him.
3use and would
ng come to the
a result of the
who carried on
left the univer-
er. He taught
asants what he
hat he thought
uring his trial
IS a just cause,
led. When the
1 with the trial,
esolutely silent
to the Govern-
religious teach-
I: i
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m ill
f
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ing which was founded on the theory that everything in
the world was ahve, that nothing is hfeless, and that all tlie
objects we consider to be without life or inorganic arc only
parts of an enormous organic body which wc cannot com-
pass. A man's task is to sustain the life of that huge organ-
ism and all its animate parts. Therefore he was against
war, capital punishment and every kind of killing, not only
of human beings, but also of animals. Concerning marriage,
too, he had a peculiar idea of his own; he thought that
increase was a lower function of man, the highest function
being to serve the already existing lives. He found a con-
firmation of his theory in the fact that there were phacocvtes
in the blood. Celibates, according to his opinion, were the
same as phacocytes, their function being to help the weak
and the sickly particles of the organism. From the moment
he came to this conclusion he began to consider himself as
well as Mary Pavlovna as phacocytes, and to live accord-
ingly, though as a youth he had been addicted to vice. His
love for Katusha did not infringe this conception, because
he loved her platonically, and such love he considered could
not hinder his activity as a phacocytes, but acted, on the
contrary, as an inspiration.
Not only moral, but also most practical questions he
decided in his own way. He applied a theory of his own
to all practical business, had rules relating to the number
of hours for rest and for work, to the kind of food to eat,
the way to dress, to heat and light up the rooms. With all
this Simonson was very shy and modest ; and yet when he
had once made up his mind nothing could make him waver.
And this man had a decided influence on Maslova through
his love for her. With a woman's instinct Maslova very
soon found out that he loved her. And the fact that she
could awaken love in a man of that kind raised her in her
own estimation. It was Nekhliidoff's magnanimity and
what had been in the past that made him offer to marry her,
but Simonson loved her such as she was now, loved her
simply because of the love he bore her. And she felt that
Simonson considered her to be an exceptional woman, hav-
ing peculiarly high moral qualities. She did not quite know
what the qualities he attributed to her were, but in order to
be on the safe side and that he should not be disappointed
in her, she tried with all her might to awaken in herself all
the highest qualities she could conceive, and she tried to
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be as good as possible. This had begun while they
Silll in nricnn uri-i.^.^ „— _ ... , J
were
.• 1 u- , • ',.^^^" o" a common vis.imi. uay sne nad
noticed h.s kmdly dark blue eyes gazing fixedly a[ her from
under h.s projecting brow. Even^hen she had noticed tha^
this was a peculiar man, and that he was looking at her in
a peculiar manner, and had also noticed the striking com"
oXTl °^ ^^f^""^,««-the "nruly hair and the frfwu^g
forehead gave him this appearance-with the child-like kind-
ness and innocence of his look. She saw him again in
Tomsk, where she joined the political prisoners. Though
they had not uttered a word, their looks told plainly tha
hey had understood one another. Even after that hey had
had no serious conversation with each other, but Maslova fdf
S'he" TnSVh'af h " ^^l P^^"- ^is words were ad^ss d
nTal'to^oran^T"^^"^^ ^"^^"^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ grew^pS;!
while they were
ng day she had
edly at her from
had noticed that
Doking at her in
le striking com-
d the frowning
; child-like kind-
V him again in
oners. Though
old plainly that
?r that they had
but Maslova felt
were addressed
►'ing to express
vhen he started
^ grew specially
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CHAPTER V.
THE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
..y^'^l'^ ?^^ '^^^ ^^™ Nekhludoff only twice managed to
barked on '' T'' '" ^^^""^^ ^^^^'•^ '^' P"^^"^'-^ werfem-
a^Iin in P ^^'S^'^^^ronuded with a wire netting, and
agam n Perm m the prison office. At both these nter
views he found her reserved and unkind She answered
his questions as to whether she was in want of anything
and "as he'thof Tf' --^^^ble. evasively and baThlun^,'
and, as he thought, with the same feeling of hostile re
proach which she had shown several timers o?e Her
depressed state of mind, which was only the result of the
molestations from the men that she was^undergoi^^ a the
hThardTnTd '"'^l^'^'^'^- ^e feared lest, KLfd by
the hard and degrading circumstances in which she was
paced on the journey, she should again get in o that site
of despair and discord with her own self which ormSly
made her irritable with him, and which had caused Xr to
nn'rhl ^f'T^' excessively to gain oblivion. But he was
unable to help her in any way during this part of the joTir-
ney, as it was impossible for him to be wkh her It was
only when she joined the political prisoners that he saw
hovy unfounded his fears were, and at each interv^w h^
noticed that inner change he so stronglv desired os^e in
her becommg more and more marked.^ The first t me diey
met m Tomsk she was again just as she had been when
leaving Moscow. She did not frown or become confused
when she saw him, but met him joyfully and simplv thank
mg him for what he had done for her, especia Wfo; brw"
ing her among the people with whom Lhe now was ^
After two months' marching with the gang, the change
Ztttc: %.'''''' ^''''''^ Her became Ltfc'eabLlrh!
oFder vvrfnkl^ ^'''"^ sunburned and thinner, and seemed
mouth Shi I T^'^'"-' ?" ''"'■ ^^"^P'^^ ^"^1 ^o""d her
W hi- ^^'^ T ""='^*' ^" ^'^' foreiiead now. and
arran'e'cr.^' '^Xr^^ .'^^'^^ the kerchief; in the wav ii was
arranged, as well as in her dress and her manners, there
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was no trace of coquetry left. And this change, which had
Ltff t7i^;ir '"' '"'"^'"^ ^" ^^^^ "^^^^ ''^^'-
fnr?^ T^^°? ^^'■ ^o^iething he had never experienced be-
nnPt",-. J^'%^^e '"& 'lad nothing in common with his first
hJir^ ?' ^'^'' ^"^ '^"" '^'^ ^^'^^^ the sensual love that
had followed, nor even with the satisfaction of a dutv ful-
filled, not unmixed with self-admiration, with which he de-
c ded to marry her after the trial. The present feeling was
si^mply one of pity and tenderness. He had felt it wh!n he
met her m pnson for the first time, and then again when
after conquenng his repugnance, he forgave her^he imag-'
ned intrigue with the medical assistant in the hospital (the
injustice done her had since been discovered); it was the
same feeling he now had, only with this difference that for-
rn^nenl 'ZIT'^'T'^'' ^"^ ^^^' "°^ ^' ^ad become per-
Stnow }^^^^^'* )' r^^' doing, whatever he was think-
ing now, a feeling of pity and tenderness dwelt with him
and not only pity and tenderness for her, but for everybody.'
This feeling seemed to have opened the floodgates of love
which had found no outlet in NekhludofT's foul and the
love now flowed out to everv one he met
l.fS"!";,"?^^'' ■'°1'T"^^ NekhludoiT's feelings were so stimu-
ated that he could not help being attentive and considerate
o everybody, from the coachman and the convoy soldiers
dea wi?h"'°Nn"'Pf^*?'A/"? governors whom he had to
deal with. Now that Maslova was among the political
prisoners, Nekhludofif could not help becoming acq^uainted
with many of them, first in Ekaterinburg, where they had
a good deal of freedom and were kept altogether in a^large
th e/of /^" °" '^7?^^ ^^^" ^^^^^^^ ^^« marching wUh
three of the men and four of the women. Coming in contact
with political exiles in this way made Nekhludoff compS
change his mmd concerning them 'pjcieiy
niP^f°^ p ^ -^'^u ^^§^^""»"gr of the revolutionary move-
ment in Russia, but especially since that first of March
when Alexander II. was murdered, NekhludofY regarded
the revolutionists with dislike and contempt. He was re
pulsed by the cruelty and secrecy of the methods th^y em-
ployed in their struggles against the government, especiallv
the cruel murders they committed, and their arrogance also
disgusted him. But having learned more intimatelv t
know them and all they had suffered at the hands of the
lange, which had
ler, made Nekh-
experienced be-
on with his first
sensual love that
m of a duty ful-
ith which he de-
;sent feeling was
1 felt it when he
len again when,
^e her the imag-
the hospital (the
red); it was the
erence, that for-
lad become per-
r he was think-
dwelt with him,
t for everybody.
3dgates of love,
s soul, and the
were so stimu-
and considerate
:onvoy soldiers
lom he had to
g the political
ling acquainted
vhere they had
;ther in a large
marching with
ning in contact
doff completely
tionary move-
irst of March,
idofif regarded
. He was re-
hods they em-
lent, especially
arrogance also
intimately to
: hands of the
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government, he .aw that they could not be other than they
fficM"on^he'c^T^„t^'th:r^ '"^ *°7^"'^ "'"^'^ »"^ »"
of justice shoVn t^m be ore and'lfter 'hf '""'' "'"""^''''
but in the case of the nnli?^,? • 7 '■""" sentenced,
.hat semblancr/s Nei^hS KwTnThe cS ^Sh °-' f™
and that of many and manv nt i;= °' Shoustova
These people were dealt wS I?L fiL '" ?'^'i"?"«Mces.
everything that Sts into th^ni ■ \ "^"^l'^ *'"' " "=' :
the big fish which are r^nuitT P""""? ^'''°'''' ='"'■ '^en
ones a?e leftto perish „„geede/on thT.f °"' IS" '^' ""'"
^ouroT^hSF'^^ "~^- "^^s^^s^^J::.
himself, anTmatr a mler^of ?rre"st '"aldlnf,;'""^"'^''
sets free, according to his own fancyor t tat of th^ E 'f "' °'
thonties. And the hie-her nffl,-iJ . 1 , , ™ higher aii-
according to whether he is ^ct Y,""'?'' ^^ '"^' '"°'''"'^'
or to what his relations tn%h? '° <'''""g"ish himself,
the other side oTthe world or if""'"!' "'"■■ '"'''' "^ '<>
finement, condem'ns Tern t°/ S be'ria "to" hard°'L'r ™"-
death, or sets them free at the reqt,es if some ladl ' '°
sets these actions ud?, fl..! ^f ^^^'^^ °^ *^'^'^ ^^^'0"s, but
oflFenders were also con t^ntlv "'"''"^i ? '^^'^ P°^'tical
Phere of public o^nion which Vad^th"''^ ^^ '" ^^"^°^-
committed, in the face oTrllno- ,^ S'"^' ^^^'°"s they
and life, and al that k^ar to nv "' '^' '''^ °^ ^'^^''y
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characters, who seemed incapable of witnessing the suffer-
ings of any Hving creature, much less of inflicting pain,
quietly prepared to murder men. nearly all of them consid-
enng murder lawful and just on certain occasions as a
means for self-defence, for the attainment of higher aims
or for the general welfare.
The importance they attribute to their cause, and conse-
quently to themselves, flowed naturally from the importance
the government attached to their actions, and the cruelty of
the punishments it inflicted on them. When Nekhludoff
came to know them better he became convinced that they
were not the right-down villains that some imagined them
to be, nor i e complete heroes that others thought them,
but ordinary people, just the same as others, among whom'
there were some good and some bad, and some mediocre,
as there are everywhere.
There were some among them who had turned revolu-
tionists because they honestly considered it their duty to
fight the existing, evils, but there were also those who chose
this work for selfish, ambitious motives ; the majority, how-
ever, was attracted to the revolutionary idea by the desire
for danger, for risks, the enjoyment of playing with one's
life, which, as Nekhludoff knew from his military experi-
ences, is quite common to the most ordinary people while
they are young and full of energy. But wherein they dif-
fered from ordinary people was that their moral standard
vyas a higher one than that of ordinary men. They con-
sidered not only self-control, hard living, truthfulness, but
also the readiness to sacrifice everything, even life, for the
common welfare as their duty. Therefore the best among
them stood on a moral level that is not often reached,
while the worst were far below the ordinary level, many of
them being untruthful, hypocritical and at the same time
self-satisfied and proud. So that Nekhludoff learned not
only to respect but to love some of his new acquaintances,
while he remained more than indifferent to others.
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sing the siiffer-
inflicting pain,
Df tliem consid-
occasions as a
of higher aims
use, and conse-
the importance
d the cruelty of
en Nekhludoff
inced that they
imagined them
thought them,
, among whom
iOme mediocre,
turned revolu-
: their duty to
lose who chose
majority, how-
i by the desire
ing with one's
lihtary experi-
y people while
erein they dif-
noral standard
n. They con-
Lithfulness, but
en life, for the
le best among
often reached,
level, many of
the same time
ff learned not
acquaintances,
thers.
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kryltzoff's story.
^u^^^^^^^^^ ^'^'"^ especially fond of Kryltzoff a con
S wit^tT^ "'" condemned to hard labolJr ;ho was"
going with the same gang as Katusha. Nekhludof? had
made h.s acquaintance already in Ekaterinburg and t^l^'d
va soon tow"^ %'J'f Vr °/ }}'' imprisonment his to°y
inVs°o"urh of R^:J::^iz ^^^ '??f <■ rr'^r
the maS/tica rcul?; fn'^rvSr^He'"' ""/"V"
ges wU? K Se- a^Nl'Jl!2^„-Sni"r&'
ou tobTc ; tTiXr^""?"' ^'-^ °- p'ovisi:,nl' a'nl
tooacco, and in the evenings we even sang in chorus.
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I had a fine voice — yes, if it had not been for mother it
would have been all right, even pleasant and interesting.
Here I made the acquaintance of the famous Petroff — he
afterwards killed himself with a piece of glass at the fortress
— and also of others. But I was not yet a revolutionary.
I also became acquainted with my neighbours in the cells
next to mine. They were both caught with Polish proc-
lamations and arrested in the same cause, and were tried
for an attempt to escape from the convoy when they were
being taken to the railway station. One was a Pole, Loz-
insky ; the other a Jew, Rozovsky. Yes. Well, this Roz-
ovsky was quite a boy. He said he was seventeen, but he
looked fifteen — thin, small, active, with black, sparkling
eyes, and, like most Jews, very musical. His voice was
still breaking, and yet he sang beautifully. Yes. I saw
them both taken to be tried. They were taken in the morn-
ing. They returned in the evening, and said they were
condemned to death. No one had expected it. Their case
was so unimportant; they only tried to get away from the
convoy, and had not even wounded any one. And then it
was so unnatural to execute such a child as Rozovsky. And
we in prison all came to the conclusion that it was only done
to frighten them, and would not be confirmed. At first we
were excited, and then we comforted ourselves, and life
went on as before. Yes. Well, one evening, a watchman
comes to my door and mysteriously announces to jne that
carpenters had arrived, and were putting up the gallows.
At first I did not understand. What's that? What gal-
lows ? But the watchman was so excited that I saw at once
it was for our two. I wished io tap and communicate with
my comrades, but was afraid those two would hear. The
comrades were also silent. Evidently everybody knew. In
the corridors and in the cells everything was as still as death
all that evening. They did not tap the wall nor sing. At
ten the watchman came again and announced that a hang-
man ha4 arrived from Moscow. He said it and went away.
I began calling him back. Suddenly I hear Rozovsky shout-
ing to me across the corridor : ' What's the matter ? Why
do you call him ? ' I answered something about asking hirn
to get me some tobacco, but he seemed to guess, and asked
me : ' Why did we not sing to-night, why did we not tap
the walls?' I do not remember what I said, but I went
away so as not to speak to him. Yes. It was a terrible
1 for mother it
ind interesting.
lus Petroff — he
at the fortress
revolutionary,
Lirs in the cells
h Polish proc-
and were tried
:hen they were
is a Pole, Loz-
A^ell, this Roz-
^enteen, but he
ack, sparkling
His voice was
Yes, I saw
in in the morn-
said they were
it. Their case
away from the
I. And then it
ozovsky. And
was only done
:d. At first we
lelves, and life
g, a watchman
ces to jne that
p the gallows,
it? What gal-
t I saw at once
imunicate with
jld hear. The
tody knew. In
IS still as death
nor sing. At
d that a hang-
nd went away.
Dzovsky shout-
matter ? Why
)ut asking him
less, and asked
lid we not tap
d, but I went
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night. I listened to every sound all night. Suddenly
towards morning, I hear doors opening and somebody walk-
ing—many persons. I went up to my window. There was
a lamp burning in the corridor. The first to pass was the
inspector. He was stout, and seemed a resolute, self-satis-
hed man, but he looked ghastly pale, downcast, and seemed
trightened; then his assistant, frowning but resolute- be-
hind them the watchman. They passed my door ' and
stopped at the next, and I hear the assistant calling out in
a strange voice: ' Lozinsky, get up and put on clean linen.'
Yes. 1 hen I hear thd creaking of the door; they entered
into his cell. Then I hear Lozinsky 's steps going to the op-
posite side of the corridor. I could only see the inspector
He stood quite pale, and buttoned and unbuttoned his coat
shrugging his shoulders. Yes. Then, as if frightened of
something, he moved out of the way. It was Lozinsky, who
passed him and came up to my door. A handsome young
fellow he was, you know, of that nice Polish type : broad
shouldered, his head covered with fine, fair, curly hair as
with a cap, and with beautiful blue eyes. So blooming so
fresh so healthy. He stopped in front of mv window,' so
that I could see the whole of his face. A dreadful, gaunt,
hvid face. KryltzofT, have you any cigarettes ? ' I wished
to pass him some, but the assistant hurriedly pulled out his
cigarette case and passed it to him. He took out one the
assistant struck a match, and he lit the cigarette and began
to smoke and seemed to be thinking. Then, as if he had
remembered something, he began to speak. ' It is cruel and
unjust. I have committed no crime. I—' I saw some-
thing quiver in his white young throat, from which I could
not take my eyes, and he stopped. Yes. At that moment
1 hear Rozovsky shouting in his fine, Jewish voice. Lozin-
sky threw away the cigarette and stepped from the door.
And Rozovsky appeared at the window. His childish face
with the hmpid black eyes, was red and moist. He also
had clean linen on, the trousers were too wide, and he kept
pulling them up and trembled all over. He approached his
pitiful face to my window. ' KryltzofT, it's true that the
doctor has prescribed cough mixt - fcr me, is it not? I
am not well. I'll take some more of the mi cture,' No one
answered, and he looked inquiringlv. now at me, now at
the inspector. What he meant to say I never made out.
Ves. Suddenly the assistant again put on a stern expres-
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sion, and called out in a kind of squeaking tone : ' Now
then no nonsense. Let us go.' Rozovsky seemed incapa-
ble of understanding what awaited him, and hurried, almost
ran, in front of him all along the corridor. But then he
drew back, and I could hear his shrill voice and his cries
then the trampling of feet, and general hubbub. He was
shrieking and sobbing. The sounds came fainter and
tainter, and at last the door rattled and all was quiet Yes
And so they hanged them. Throttled them both with a
rope A watchman, another one, saw it done, and told me
that Lozinsky did not resist, but Rozovsky struggled for a
long time, so that they had to pull him up on to the scaffold
and to force his head into the noose. Yes. This watchman
was a stupid fellow. He said: ' They told me, sir, that it
would be frightful, but it was not at all frightful. After
they were hanged they only shrugged their shoulders twice,
1 I u rit showed how the shoulders convulsively rose
and fell. Then the hangman pulled a bit so as to tighten
the noose, and it was all u^, and they never budged ' " And
Kryltzoff repeated the watchman's words, " Not at all fright-
ful, and tried to smile, but burst into sobs instead
For a long time after that he kept silent, breathing heav-
ily,^ and repressing the sobs that were choking him.
From that time I became a revolutionist. Yes" he
said, when he was quieter and finished his story in a few
words. He belonged to the Narodovoltr.y party, and was
even at the head of the disorganising group, whose object
was to terrorise the government so that it should give up
Its power of its own accord. With this object he travelled
to Petersburg, to Kiev, to Odessa and abroad, and was
everywhere successful. A man in whom he had full con-
fidence betrayed him. He was arrested, tried, kept in prison
for two years, and condemned to death, but the sentence
was mitigated to one of hard labour for life.
He went into consumption while in prison, and in the
conditions he was now placed he had scarcely more than
a few months longer to live. This he knew, but did not re-
pent of his action, but said that if he had another life he
would use it in the same way to destroy the conditions in
which such things as he had seen were possible
TviTuf-'^'^i''^ story and his intimacy with him explained to
JNIekhludoflf much that he had not previously understood
»g tone : ' Now,
seemed incapa-
1 hurried, almost
r. But then he
:e and his cries,
ibbub. He was
ime fainter and
was quiet. Yes.
tm both with a
ne, and told me
struggled for a
n to the scaffold
This watchman
me, sir, that it
rightful. After
shoulders twice,
jnvulsively rose
sO as to tighten
budged.'" And
'Jot at all fright-
nstead.
wreathing heav-
ig him.
list. Yes," he
story in a few
party, and was
), whose object
should give up
;ct he travelled
road, and was
2 had full con-
, kept in prison
It the sentence
Dn, and in the
ely more than
but did not re-
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CHAPTER VH.
NEKHLUDOFF SEEKS AN INTERVIEW WITH MASLOVA.
On the day when the convoy officer had the cncnnnfnr
Chr ? r'Ti' ^' '^' '^^lt'"& station abou tic hi 1
Nekhludofi^, who had spent the ni|ht at the village n v^nt
up late, and was some time writing letters ?oposfa the next
Government town, so that he left the inn la^er than usiS
and did not catch up with the gang on the road as he !i
Arfh«i . • u f .°^*'^'' ^^'^ ^" interview with Katusha
At the last SIX haltmg stations he could not get the nerm s "
id t '" l"'''^r ^'■°'" ^"y «f the officers^ Though Sev"
th. I ^..•^"''^^''^ °^^'^^ NekhludofT a trap to drive him to
wmdow happened to fall on tl,e spot, but he could hea^tr
Heavy boots wading through the deep, stkky slush!'' "{£
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passing the open place in front of the church and the lone
street, with its rows of windows shining brightlv in the
darkness, Nekhludoff followed his guide to the outskirts
of the village, where it was pitch dark. But soon here too
rays of light, streaming through the mist from the lamps
in the front of the halting station, became discernible
through the darkness. Tiie reddish spots of light grew
bigger and bigger ; at last the stakes of the palisade the
moving figure of the sentinel, a post painted with white and
black stripes and the sentinel's box became visible
The sentinel calhd his usual "Who goes there?" as
they approached, and seeing they were strangers treated
them with such severity that he would not allow them to
wait by the palisade; but Nekhludoflf's guide was not
abashed by this severity.
"Hallo, lad ! why so fierce? You go and rouse your boss
while we wait here ? "
The sentinel gave no answer, but shouted something in
at the gate and stood looking at the broad-shouldered youne
labourer scraping the mud ofT NekhludofT's boots wHh a
chip of wood by the light of the lamp. From behind the
palisade came the hum of male and female voices. In about
three minutes more something rattled, the gate opened and
a sergeant, with his cloak thrown over his shoulders, stepped
out of the darkness into the lamplight.
The sergeant was not as strict as the sentinel, but he was
extremely inquisitive. He insisted on knowing what Nekh-
ludoff wanted the officer for, and who he was, evidently
scenting his booty and anxious not to let it escape. Nekhlu-
doff said he had come on special business, and would show
his gratitude, and would the sergeant take a note for him
to the officer. The sergeant took the note, nodded, and went
away. Some time after the gate rattled again, and women
carrying baskets, boxes, jugs and sacks came out, loudly
chattering in their peculiar Siberian dialect as they stepped
over the threshold of the gate. None of them wore peasant
costumes, but were dressed town fashion, wearing jackets
and fur-hned cloaks. Their skirts were tucked up high and
their heads wrapped up in shawls. They examined Nekhlu-
doff and his guide curiously by the light of the lamp. One
of them showed evident pleasure at the sight of the broad-
shouldered fellow, and affectionately administered to hh
a dose of Siberian abuse.
irn
•ch and tlio long
brig-htly in the
to tlie outskirts
It soon here, too,
from the lamps
ame discernible
5 of light grew
he palisade, the
I with white and
visible.
oes there ? " as
trangers treated
t allow them to
guide was not
rouse your boss
:d something in
louldered young
's boots with a
rom behind the
oices. In about
ate opened, and
Dulders, stepped
:nel, but he was
ng what Nekh-
was, evidently
icape. Nekhlii-
nd would show
a note for him
dded, and went
in, and women
me out, loudly
IS they stepped
n wore peasant
i^earing jackets
;d up high, and
mined Nekhlu-
the lamp. One
t of the broad-
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yo;>;Srk^;^UngS:^°^"^ ''''■ '^^^ ^-^ ^^^^
I ve been showing this traveller here the way," answered
t^hejoung fellow. "And what have you bJen bringing
Thf7uu\?t^''?' ^""^ /. • "^ ^^ ^""'"^ "^^'■^ »" the morning."
f\J u..^ . ^"^ some hmg m answer that made not only
: ?SitV"airn^ht ""• ^^"'^ ''' ^°^^' -" y-? "
fh^)^^^".^°".^^''^ P^""^^ t^^e church it's the second from
the two-stoned house. Oh, and here, take my staff" h^
said, handmg the stick he was carry ng, andVhTch was
he^^'„H^'">^.'T^^' '" N^^^hludoff; and%rashing hro^gh
the mud with his enormous boots, he disappeared in the
darkness, together with the women "'^^PPeared in the
cfjii '" ^^u?^ mingling with the voices of the women was
still audible through the fog, when the gate aJ^r'att ed
S^m lo theK/^^^^^^' ^"^ ^'''' ^^'^^^oTtollt
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NiRKHLUIX)FF ANO THE OI rlCER.
This halting station, like all such stations along' the
Siberian road, was surrounded by a courtyard, fenced in
with a palisade of sharp-pointed stakes, and consisted of
three one-storied houses. One of them, the largest, with
grated windows, was for the prisoners, another for the
convoy soldiers, and the third, in which the oflfice was, for
the officers.
There were lights in the windows of all the three houses,
and, like all such lights, they promised, here in a specially
deceptive manner, something cosy inside the walls. Lamps
were burning before the porches of the houses and about
five lamps more along the walls lit up the yard.
The sergeant led Nekhludoflf along a plank which lay
across the yard up to the porch of the smallest of the houses.
When he had gone up the three steps of the porch he let
Nekhludoff pass before him into the ante-room, in which
a small lamp was burning, and wdiich was filled with smoky
fumes. By the stove a soldier in a coarse shirt with a necktie
and black trousers, and with one top-boot on, stood blowing
the charcoal in a soinovar, using the other boot as bellows.*
When he saw Nekhludoff, the soldier left the samovar and
helped him oflf with his waterproof ; then went into the inner
room.
" He has come, your honour."
" Well, ask him in," came an angry voice.
" Go in at the door," said the soldier, and went back to
the somorar.
In the next room an officer with fair moustaches and ..
very red face, dressed in an Austrian jacket that closelv
fitted his broad chest and shoulders, sat at a covered tatlo,
on which were the remains of his dinner and two bottles;
there was a strong smell of tobacco and some very strong,
* The long '- 'j.s v/orn in Russia have concertina-like sides, and
when held to th^ 'hirnney of the samovar (tea urn) can be used in-
stead of hello; ^s ' i ii \ the , harcoal inside burn up.
ons along the
ard, fenced in
id consisted of
e largest, with
nother for the
office was, for
e three houses,
; in a specially
walls. Lamps
ises and about
•d.
ank which lay
t of the houses,
lie porch he let
oom, in which
ed with smoky
; with a necktie
stood blowing
lot as bellows.*
e soviovar and
t into the inner
[ went back to
Listaches and a
et that close!','
covered tabi \
id two bottles ;
le very strong,
.q-Iike sides, and
) can be used in-
up.
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cheap scent in the warm room. On seeing Xckhlndoff the
officer rose and gazed ironically and suspiciously, as it
seemed, at the newcomer.
' What is it you want?" he asked, and, not waiting for
a reply, he shouted through the open door:
" Bernoff, the somovar! What are you about?"
" Coming at once."
" You'll get it ' at once ' so that you'll remember it."
shouted the officer, and his eyes flashed.
" I'm coming," shouted the soldier, and brought in the
somovar. Nekhludotf waited while the soldier placed the
somovar on the table. When the officer had followed the
soldier out of the room with his cruel little eyes looking as
if they were aiming where best to hit him, he made the tea,
got the tour-cornered decanter out of his travelling case
and some Albert biscuits, and having placed all this on the
cloth he again turned to Nekhludoff. " Well, how can I
be of service to you ? "
" I should like to be allowed to visit a prisoner,"' said
Nekhludoff, without sitting down.
" A political one? That's forbidden by the law," said the
officer.
" The woman I mean is not a political prisoner," said
Nekhludoff.
" Yes. But pray take a seat," said the officer. Nekhludoflf
sat down.
" She is not a political one, but at my request she has been
allowed by the higher authorities to join the political prison-
ers "
" Oh, yes, I know," interrupted the other ; " a little dark
one ? Well, yes, that can be managed. Won't you smoke ? "
He moved a box of cigarettes towards Nekhludoff, and, hav-
ing carefully poured out two tumblers of tea, he passed one
to Nekhludoff. " If you please," he said.
" Thank you ; I should like to see "
" The night is long. You'll have plenty of time. I shall
order her 'c be sent out to you."
" But could I not see her where she is ? Why need she
be^sent for?" Nekhludoff said.
*^ In to the political prisoners ? It is against the law."
" I have been allowed to go in several times. If there is
any danger of my passing anything in to them I could do it
through her just as well."
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" Oh, no ; she would be searched," said the officer, and
laughed in an unpleasant manner.
" Well, why not search me? "
" All right ; we'll manage without that," said the officer,
opening the decanter, and holding it out towards Nekhlu-
doff's tumbler of tea. May I? No? Well, just as you
like. When you are living here in Siberia you are too glad
to meet an educated person. Our work, as you know, is the
saddest, and when one is used to better things it is very
hard. The idea they have of us is that convoy officers are
coarse, uneducated men, and no one seems to remember
that we may have been born for a very different position."
This officer's red face, his scents, his rings, and especially
his unpleasant laughter disgusted Nekhliidoff very much,
but to-day, as during the whole of his journey, he was in
that serious, attentive state which did not allow him to
behave slightingly or disdainfully towards any man, but
made him feel the necessity of speaking to every one
" entirely," as he expressed to himself, this relation to men.
When he had heafd the officer and understood his state of
mind, he said in a serious manner :
" I think that in your position, too, some comfort could
be found in helping the suffering people," he said.
" What are their sufferings ? You don't know what these
people are."
" They are not special people," said Nekhliidoff ; " they
are just such people as others, and some of them are quite
innocent."
" Of course, there are all sorts among them, and naturally
one pities them. Others won't let anything off, but I try to
lighten their condition where I can. It's better that I should
suffer, but not they. Others keep to the law in every detail,
even as far as to shoot, but I show pity. May I? — Take
another," he said, and poured out another tumbler of tea
for Nekhliidoff.
" And who is she, this woman that you want to see ? " he
asked.
" It is an unfortunate woman who got into a brothel, and
was there falsely accused of poisoning, and she is a very
good woman," Nekhliidoff answered.
The officer shook his head. " Yes, it does happen. I can
tell you about a certain Emma who lived in Kasan. She
was a Hungarian by birth, but she had quite Persian eyes,"
the officer, and
said the officer,
•wards Nekhlu-
;11, just as you
ou are too glad
ou know, is the
lings it is very
v^oy officers are
s to remember
erent position."
, and especially
Dff very much,
ney, he was in
allow him to
any man, but
to every one
elation to men.
•od his state of
comfort could
2 said,
low what these
hludoff; "they
them are quite
I, and naturally
iff, but I try to
:r that I should
in every detail,
May I?— Take
tumbler of tea
nt to see ? " he
a brothel, and
she is a very
happen. I can
1 Kasan. She
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he contmued, unable to restrain a smile at the recollection :
AT^yir^^^ i° f""*^^ ^^''^ ^bo»t her that a countess "
Nekhludoff mterrupted the officer and returned to the
former topic of conversation.
"I think that you could lighten the condition of the people
whde they are m your charge. And in acting that way I
am sure you would find great joy ! " said NekhludofT try-
ing to pronounce as distinctly as possible, as he might if talk-
mg to a foreigner or a child
The officer looked at NekhludoflF impatiently, waiting for
him to stop so as to continue the tale about the Hungarian
^v^lIvfTv"-'^''' '"^'^ '^j^""*^y P^^«^"ted herself^ very
vividly to his imagination and quite absorbed his attention.
n,-tvTh.';.° wT^u ^^1^ i?,^" ^"'^^ t'""^'" he said, " and I do
pity them ; bu I should like to tell you about Emma. What
do you think she did ? " ""^^
" It does not interest me," said NekhludoflF, " and I will tell
you straight, that though I was myself very different a one
time I now hate that kind of relation to women."
The officer gave NekhludoflF a frightened look.
Won t you take some more tea? " he said
No, thank you."
YZ^af'Tlh-''^r\ ^f.^^'."t^ke the gentleman to
Vakouloff. Tell him to let him into the separate political
room. He may remain there till the inspection."
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THE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
Accompanied by the orderly, Nekhludoflf went out into
the courtyard, which was dimlv li' up by the red Hght of the
lamps.
" Where to ? " asked the convoy sergeant, addressing- the
orderly.
" Into the separate cell. No. 5."
" You can't pass here ; the boss has gone to the village and
taken the keys."
" Well, then, pass this way."
The soldier led Nekhludoff along a board to another en-
trance. While still in the yard Nekhludoff could hear the
din of voices and general commotion going on inside as in a
beehive when the bees are preparing to swarm ; but when he
came nearer and the door opened the din grew louder, and
changed into distinct sounds of shouting, abuse and laughter.
He heard the clatter of chairs and smelt the well-known foul
air. This din of voices and the clatter of the chairs, together
with the close smell, always flowed into one tormenting sen-
sation, and produced in Nekhludoff a feeling of moral nausea
which grew into physical sickness, the two feelings mingling
with and heightening each other.
The first thing Nekhludoff saw, on entering, was a large,
stinking tub. A corridor into which several doors opened led
from the entrance. The first was the family room, then the
bachelors' room, and at the very end two small rooms were
set apart for the political prisoners.
The buildings, which were arranged to hold one hundred
and fifty prisoners, now that there were four hundred and
fifty inside, were so crowded that the prisoners could not all
get into the rooms, but filled the passage, too. Some were
sitting or lying on the floor, some were going out with emptv
teapots, or bringing them back filled with boiling water
Among the latter was Taras. He overtook Nekhludoff and
greeted him affectionately. The kind face of Taras was dis-
figured by dark bruises on his nose and under his eye.
F went out into
red light of the
. addressing the
) the village and
1 to another en-
could hear the
»n inside as in a
n ; but when he
•ew louder, and
se and laughter,
veil-known foul
chairs, together
tormenting sen-
af moral nausea
elings mingling
ig, was a large,
oors opened led
room, then the
lall rooms were
Id one hundred
ir hundred and
rs could not all
o. Some were
out with empty
boiling water,
^ekhludoflf and
Taras was dis-
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;; What has happened to you ? " asked Nekhludoff.
^^ Yes somethmg did happen," Taras said, with a smile
lowed TaS"''hll' T"'"'" •\''^?. ^ P^'^"-' ^^^^l-
" And W's The?dosia% ''" "^^' ^^'"' ^^^^^•"
h.r ?^^M^^" r'g^^^t- Here I am bringing her the water for
M^M 'T'^^f TT'''^' ^"^ ^^^"t into^he famUy room
Nekhludoff looked in at the door. The room was crovwlprl
with women and men, some of whom were on Ldrn-^
unde, the bedsteads ; it was full of steam f om the vv'" do^heS
that were drying, and the chatter of women's voices v'as tin
ceasing. The next door led into the bachelors' oom This"
room was still more crowded; even the doorway and the
passage m front of it were blocked by a noisy crowd of men
m wet garments, busy doing or deciding soS^thhig or oSe?'
nnJ .""S?? '""^"^"^ explained that it was th? prisoner'
vS was '■ ''"" ^r'^^T' P^>''"^ °^ °"^ -f the food mone;
monism tl^S -'^ ^ '^^'^7 ^^° '^^d ^o" f'-o"' or Ht
money to the prisoners, and receiving back little tickets
made of piaying cards. When they saw the convov soldier
and a gentleman, those who were nearest became sTent and
folk.wed them with looks of ill-will. Among thlnrNekhl?,
doff noticed the criminal Fedoroff, whom hf knew and^^o
always kept a miserable lad with a sw-elled appea;ance and
"oXmrk'ed ^am;^''', ''"' ^"' ^'^° ^ clisgu?t?nrnosel ss'
pock marked tramp, who was notorious amon^ the orisoner^
esc?pe"and'h"f '•%^°^ '" '''' "^^^^^^^ whHe ?n "ngTo
escape, and had, as it was rumoured, fed on his flesh Th^
tramp stood in tlie passage with his'wetclSak thrown Irlr
one shoulder, looking mockinglv and boldly at N Jklih-idoff
and did not move out of the wav.' Nekhludoff nasi liml^^
Though this kind of scene had now become mte fan li^r"
to him, though he had during the last thrc^romhTcen
hese four hundred criminal prisoners over and over a?ai
n many different circumstances; in the heat cMivlwd n
ouds of dust which they raised as thev hi^^ed tl d"
cliainec feet along the road, and at the restin<>- pfa?es bv tl le
aci occurred, yet every time he came anions them nnrl f,At
tlieir attentuHi flxed upon him as it was now.%1 me'an co
sciousness of h,s sin acrnin.t tlicm tornicntJd tIS^
sense of shan^e and guilt was added an unconr u able fee i o
of loathing and horror. He knew that, placid in a pos ion
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yet he was unable to stifle his disgust.
" It's well for them do-nothings," Nekhludoflf heard some
one say m a hoarse voice as he approached the room of the
political prisoners. Then followed a word of obscene abuse
and spiteful, mocking laughter.
1 they were, and
idoflf heard some
the room of the
►f obscene abuse,
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CHAPTER X.
MAKAR DEVKIN.
When they had passed the bachelors' room the sergeant
who accompanied Nekhludoff left him, promising to come
for him before the mspection would take place. As soon as
the sergeant was gone a pr';,oner. quickly stepping with his
bare feet and holding up the chains, came close up to Nekh!
udoff, enveloping him in the strong, acid smell of perspira-
tion, and said in a mysterious whisper :
.ir,-l?^^P *^^ ¥' i""} ^^'' S""^ ^"to an awful mess. Been
rnln^T-^" ^^i^-\^^ " •^'''^" ^'^ "^'"e ^s Karmanoflf at the
inspection. Take his part, sir. We dare not, or they'll kill
us, and looking uneasily round he turned away
r.J.V^'^^^^ ^^"^ happened. The criminal KalmanofT had
persuaded a young fellow who resembled him in appearance
and was sentenced to exile to change names with him and go
NihlnTnff t '"'*'1? u- ^'^' ^^"" ^^ °"^y ^^"t to exile.
Nekhludoff knew all this. Some convict had told him about
this exchange the week before. He nodded as a sign that he
understood and would do what was in his power,^nd con-
tinued his way without looking round
Nekhludoff knew this convict, and was surprised by his
action. When in Ekaterinburg the convict had asked Nekh-
ludott to get a permission for his wife to follow him The
convict was a man of medium size and of the most ordinary
peasant type, about thirty years old. He was condemned
to hard labour for an attempt to murder and rob. His
name was Makar Devkin. His crime was a very curious
one. In the account he gave of it to Nekhludoff, he said it
was not his but his devil's doing. He said that a travdler
had come to his father's house and hired his sledge to drive
YZerfnul^^^VY^ '"/^'^ °^ ^""^ two roubles^ Makar's
horse Hrl T '^jlnyethe stranger. Makar harnessed the
ThfcV '^'^' f "^ f^* ^°^'" to d-ink tea with the stranger.
The stranger related at the tea-table that he was going to be
married and had five hundred roubles, which he had earned
m Moscow, with him. When he had heard this, Makar went
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out into the yard and put an axe into the sledge under the
straw. And drd not myself know why I was taking he
axe, he said. Take the axe,' says he, and I took it We
fhom H? '*^"w n^^' "^'^^^ '^°"^ ^" "Slit; I even forgot
about the axe Well, we were getting near the village ; only
about four miles more to go. The way from the crSss-road
to the high road was up hill, and I got out. I walked behind
Ihon /^^ "h""^ ^' "'^''^''' /° "^"' ' ^'h^t ^'^ yo" thinking
about? When you get to the top of the hill you will meet
people along the highway, and then there will be the village
t^e nlil"'''? ''' ""T^ ^^'¥- ^^ y°" "^^^" to do it. now's
the time. I stooped over the sledge as if to arrange the
straw, and the axe seemed to jump into my hand of itself
1 he man turned round. ' What are you doing ? ' I lifted the
axe and tried to knock him down, but he was quick iumoed
ou . and took hold of my hands. ' What are y^ doiig you
villain? ' He threw me down into the snow, and I did no"
even struggle, but gave in at once. He bound my arms with
his girdle, and threw me into the sledge, and took me
straight to the polfce station. I was impri;oned and triS
Ihe commune gave me a good character, said that I was a
good man, and that nothing wrong had been noticed about
me The masters for whom I worked also spoke well of me
but we had no money to engage a lawyer, and so I was con-
demned to four years' hard labour."
It was this man who, wishing to save a fellow-villager
knowing that he was risking his life thereby, told Nekhludoff
the prisoners secret, for doing which (if found out) he
would certainly be throttled. ^
iledge under the
[ was taking the
d I took it. We
it; I even forgot
;he village ; only
n the cross-road
I walked behind
re you thinking
II you will meet
11 be the village.
1 to do it, now's
to arrange the
' hand of itself.
??' I lifted the
s quick, jumped
you doing, you
, and I did not
i my arms with
and took me
oned and tried,
id that I was a
1 noticed about
oke well of me,
J so I was con-
fellow-villager,
old Nekhliidoff
found out) he
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MASLOVA AND HER COMPANIONS.
titioned ofif from the veT Thl%. ? ^I'f Passage par-
on entering into this oart Jf tl^''^ P'''^" Nekhludoflf saw
his rubber jacket and w^h ^ll T'^^^ ^^' Simonson in
pression of importance ^ '''" "^'^^ "'"' "n «"
;; Yes ; what is it ? " Nekhludoff asked.
Mi^ro^^x™^ i^iz^-^^^ t%'oiriZk-'^",
ouf of a*; ^'s°he C^hf^'iF^f^^^
in front of h7r^" v ^^"^? °? ^^r skirt, and stopped right
saiJl^kli, slTinThSs"^ "P ''' ^P-^--'' ' -,'^
dirtf You7.n°I'^- °"""P^ti°"'" and she smiled. " But the
.ook:'is;ft;eTNew,sr'' ^'™^ "^^ ^ ^'-"^^
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rlrl ^11 '■^^''*' ^'" come for it, and will bring the cloaks to
dry Our people are all in here." she said to Nekhhkloff
'^S^doff 'on"' lTr[ "^. '''' ^^^"^ -^ of the secon"d '''
dinilv 1 1 bv . K''^ '^.',t°'' ^"^ ^"t^'-^d ^ s"^a» room
o-;^ c!n' t^h^e sl^ LS^'Twati^^dTth^^^^^^^ 'Z
"ure.r.p rioC: st^'k^^^^- ^- - ^-^^-
Only those who were close to the lamp were clearlv v^^
ible the bedsteads were in the shade and wrverini shadow^^
glided over the walls. Two men, appointed as caterers who
had gone to fef^h boiling water and provisions were awav
most of the political prisoners were gathered tTJetherT'
the small room. There was Nekhludoff's old acqStance
Vera Doukhova, with her large, frightened eves and th^
hrr"rndXne"r am/°T,''^''\" ^ l-yTack^f^ithlho'r
nair, and thinner and yellower than ever. She had a newQ
paper spread out in front of her. and sat rXg cigarettes'
with a jerky movement of her hands ^ cigarettes
ple!sTnL^'of^'h^n''?r,^''^^^ considered to be the
pieasantest of the political prisoners, was also here Sh^
ooked after the housekeeping, and managed to spread a
eeling of home comfort even in the midst of the most trv
ing surroundings. She sat beside the lamp, with heTsIeeves
wnen sne smiled, had a way of suddenly becoming- merrv
animated and captivating. It was with such TsmilPthf;
she now welcomed NekhludofT ''^ *^^^
said.^^^' we thought you had gone back to Russia," she
a IhtTe' ti^r tireH°L"H ""^u "^ ^^'^ P^^^ovm, busy with
chikHsh Icce'nts "^ ' "^° ^'^^ ^^^"^'"^ ^" ^^ ^-^et,
^^ ''How nice that you have come," she said to NekhludofT
Have you seen Katusha? And we have a visitor We ''
and she pointed to the little girl ^'
Here was also Anatole Kryltzoff with felt boots on sit
rhZr.\^-r;"r„ tii-f -^"tl ''T ^-' ^-bild up'^d
.ciMij^, nic arms lOicictl m the sleeves of hid rinoi/ -,„ i
Jook,„g at Nekhludoif with feverish lyes NekhMdo'ff was
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to Nekhludoflf,
i the second.
i a small room
IS standing low
I the room, and
lot had time to
^ere clearly vis-
vering shadows
IS caterers, who
ns, were away ;
ed together ir
i acquaintance,
eyes, and the
ket with short
ie had a news-
lling cigarettes
lered to be the
Iso here. She
■d to spread a
■ the most try-
ith her sleeves
ng them, with
lat was spread
)oking young
»f face, which,
oming merry,
1 a smile that
Russia," she
'^na, busy with
in her sweet,
3 NekhludoflF.
visitor here,"
boots on, sit-
ubled up and
is cloak, and
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gomg up to him, but to the right of the door a man with
spectacles and reddish curls, dressed in a rubber jacket, sat
alking to the pretty, smiling Grabetz. This was the cele-
brated revolutionist NovodvoroflF. Nekhludofif hastened to
greet him. He was in a particular hurry about it, because
whnnT\"/?•'^t^°"'^^T°"^^^°"^ ^" ^^^ Po'^^ical prisoners
whom he disliked. Novodvoroflf's eyes glistened through
his spectacles as he looked at Nekhludoflf and held his nar-
row hand out to him.
"Well, are you having a pleasant journey?" he asked
with apparent irony. ds^cu,
"Yes, there is much that is interesting," NekhludoflF
answered as if he did not notice the irony, but took the
question for politeness, and passed on to Kryltzoff
1 hough NekhludoflF appeared indiflFerent, he was really
far from indiflFerent, and these words of NovodvoroflF, show-
ing his evident desire to say or do something unpleasant,
nterfered with the state of kindness in which Nekhludoff
found himself, and he felt depressed and sad.
and Sbling ha7d'" " " '^ '''^''' ^^^^^^"^ ^^^^^^^^'^ ^'^
T^' ^H^'^I '''^"' °"'%' ^ ''^""°* S^^ ^^'■"^ ; I sot wet through,"
Kryltzoflf answered quickly replacing his hands into the
sleeves of his cloak. "And here it is also beastly cold
1 here, look, the window-panes are broken," and he pointed
5 ,x.T^'^." P"^^ ^^^^"^ *he ^'■on bars. " And how are
you ? Why did you not come ? "
"I was not allowed to, the authorities were so strict but
to-day the oflficer is lenient." "
"Lenient indeed!" KryltzoflF remarked. "Ask Alarv
what she did this morning." ' ^
Mary Pavlovna from her place in the corner related what
had happened about the little girl that morning when they
lett the halting station. ^
"} !^]i"^.*f is absolutely necessary to make a collective
protest said Vera Doukhova, in a determined tone and
yet looking now at one. now at another, with a frightened
undecided look. " Valdemar Simonson did protlt but
that is not sufificient."
. " What protest ! " muttered Kryltzoff, cross and frown-
ing. Her want of simplicity, artificial tone and nervous-
ness had evidently been irritating him for a long time
Are you looking for Katusha?" he asked, addressing
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Nekhlucloff. 'She is working all the time. She has
c eane. this, the men's room, and now she has gone to
clean the vvomen's ! Only it is not possible to clean avvay
the fleas. And what is Mary doing there? " he asked, nod-
dmg towards the corner where Mary Pavlovna sat
'She is combing out her adopted daughter's hair." re-
plied Rantzeva. '
KrvltzV^°"'* she let the insects loose on us?" asked
" No no ; I am very careful. She is a clean little girl
"wh,-1 T°" ^"^^uV'l'^'^K ^^^'y' ^"'•"•"^ to Rantzeva,
while I go and help Katusha, and I will also bring him his
Rantzeva took the little girl on her lap, pressing her
plump, bare little arms to her bosom with a mother's ten-
derness, and gave her a bit of sugar. As Mary Pavlovna
left the room, two men came in with boiling water and pro-
visions. ^
ji-'
imc. She has
le has gone to
to clean away
he asked, nod-
na sat.
Iter's hair," re-
n us ? " asked
:lean httle girl
to Rantzeva,
D bring him his
, pressing her
I mother's ten-
lary Pavlovna
water and pro-
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NABATOFF AND MARKEL.
One of the men who came in was a short, thin, young
man, who had a cloth-covered sheepskin coat on, and high
top-boots. He stepped lightly and quickly, carrying two
steaming teapots, and holding a loaf wrapped in a cloth
under his arm.
" Well, so our prince has put in an appearance again,"
he said, as he placed the teapot beside the cups, and handed
the bread to Rantzeva. " We have bought wonderful
tmngs," he continued, as he took off his sheepskin, and
f.ung it over the heads of the others into the corner of the
bedstead. " Markel has bought milk and eggs. Why, we'll
have a regular ball to-day. And Rantzeva is spreading out
her aesthetic cleanliness," he said, and looked with a smile
at Rantzeva, " and now she will make the tea."
The whole presence of this man — his motion, his voice,
his look — seemed to breathe vigour and merriment. The
other newcomer was just the reverse of the first. He looked
despondent and sad. He was short, bony, had very prom-
inent cheek bones, a sallow complexion, thin lips and beau-
tiful, greenish eyes, rather far apart. He wore an old
wadded coat, top-boots and goloshes, and was carrying two
pots of milk and two round boxes made of birch bark,
v^hich he placed in front of Rantzeva. He bowed to Xekli-
ludoff* bending only his neck, and with his eyes fixed on
him. Then, having reluctantly given him his damp hand
to shake, he began to take out the provisions.
Both these political prisoners were of the people ; the
first was Nabatoff, a peasant ; the second, Alarkel Kond-
ratieff, a factory hand. ]\Iarkel did not come among the
revolutionists till he was quite a man, Nabatofif only eigh-
teen. After leaving the village school, owing to his excep-
tional talents. NabatofF entered the gymnasium, and main-
tained himself by giving lessons all the time ho studied
there, and obtained the gold medal. He did not go to the
university because, while still in the seventh class of the
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gymnasium, he made up his mind to go among the people
and cnHghtei. his neglected brethren. This he did, first
getting the »>U.ce of a Government clerk in a large village.
He was soou irrested because he read to the peasants and
arranged a co-operative industrial association among them.
They kept him imprisoned for eight months and then set
him ^ree, but he remained under police supervision. As
soon as he was liberated he went to another village, got a
place as schoolmaster, and did the same as he had done in
the first village. He was again taken up and kept four-
teen months in prison, where his convictions became yet
stronger. After that he was exiled to the Perm Govern-
ment, from where he escaped. Then he was put to prison
for seven months and after that exiled to Archangel. There
he refused to take the oath of allegiance that was required
of them and was condemned to be exiled to the Takoutsk
Government, so that half his li«fe since he reached man-
hood was passed in prison and exile. All these adventures
did not embitter him nor weaken his energy, but rather
stimulated it. He was a lively young fellow, with a splen-
did digestion, always active, gay and vigorous. He never
repented of anything, never looked far ahead, and used all
his powers, his cleverness, his practical knowledge to act in
the present. When free he worked towards the aim he had
set himself, the enlightening and the uniting of the work-
ing men, especially the country labourers. When in prison
he was just as energetic and practical in finding means to
come in contact with the outer world, and in arranging his
own life and the life of his group as comfortably as the con-
ditions would allow. Above all things he was a communist.
He wanted, as it seemed to him, nothing for himself and
contented himself with very little, but demanded very much
for the group of his comrades, and could work for it either
physically or mentally day and night, without sleep or food.
As a peasant he had been industrious, observant, clever at
his work, and naturally self-controlled, polite without any
effort, and attentive not only to the wishes but also the
opinions of others. His widowed mother, an illiterate, super-
stitious, old peasant woman, was still living, and NabatoflF
helped her and went to see her while he was free. During
the time he spent at home he entered into all the interests of
his mother's life, helped her in her work, and continued his
intercourse with former playfellows ; smoked cheap tobacco
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ong the people
is he (lid, first
a large village.
e peasants and
1 among them.
s and then set
pervision. As
• village, got a
le had done in
ind kept four-
ns became yet
Perm Govern-
5 put to prison
hangel. There
t was required
I the Takoutsk
reached man-
ese adventures
gy, but rather
, with a splen-
us. He never
i, and used all
ledge to act in
he aim he had
J of the work-
V^hen in prison
ding means to
arranging his
bly as the con-
i a communist.
)r himself and
ded very much
rk for it either
; sleep or food,
vant, clever at
e without any
i but also the
literate, super-
•and Nabatoff
free. During
he interests of
continued his
cheap tobacco
with them in so-called " dog's feet," * took part in their fist
fights, and expliined to them how they were all being de-
ceived by the btate and how they ought to disentangle
themselves out of the deception tluy were kept in. When
he thougl
spoke of what
^lution
people he always imagined this people from whom he had
sprung himself left in very nearly the same conditions as
they were in, only with sufficient land and without the
gentry and without officials. The revolution, according to
him, and in this he differed from Novodvoroff and Novod-
voroff's follower, Markel Kondratieff, should not alter the
elementary forms of the life of the people, should not break
down the whole edifice, but should only alter the inner walls
of the beautiful, strong, enormous old'structure he loved so
dearly. He was also a typical peasant in his views on religion,
never thinking about metaphysical questions, about the
origin of all origin, or the future life. God was to him, as
also to Arago, an hypothesis, which he had had no need
of up to ncjw. He had no business with the origin of the
world, whether Moses or Darwin was right. Darwinism,
which seemed so important to his fellows, was only the same
kind of plaything of the mind as the creation in six'days. The
question how the world had originated did not interest him,
just because the question how it would be best to live in this
world was ever before him. He never thought about
future life, always bearing in the depth of his soul the firm
and quiet conviction inherited from his forefathers, and
common to all labourers on the land, that just as in the
world of plants and animals nothing ceases to exist, but
continually changes its form, the manure into grain, the
grain into a food, the tadpole into a frog, the caterpillar into
a butterfly, the acorn into an oak, so man also does not
perish, but only undergoes a change. He believed in this,
and therefore always looked death straight in the face, and
bravely bore the sufferings that lead towards it, but did not
care and did know how to speak about it. He loved work,
was always employed in some practical business, and put
his comrades in the way of the same kind of practical work.
The other political prisoner from among the people, Mar-
kel Kondratieff, was a very different kind of man. He began
to work at the age of fifteen, and took to smoking and drink-
* Dog's foot is a kind of cigarette that the peasants smoke, made
of a bit of paper and bent at one end into a hook.
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ing in order to stifle a dense sense of being wronged. He
first realised he was wronged one Christmas when they, the
factory children, were invited to a Christmas tree, got up
by the employer's wife, where he received a farthing whistle,
an apple, a gilt walnut and a fig, while the employer's chil-
dren had presents given them which seemed gifts from fairy-
land, and had cost more than fifty roubles, as he afterwards
heard.
When he was twenty a celebrated revolutionist came to
their factory to work as a working girl, and noticing his su-
perior qualities began giving books and pamphlets to Kon-
dratieff and to talk and explain his position to him, and how
to remedy it. When the possibility of freeing himself and
others from their oppressed state rose clearly in his mind, the
injustice of this state appeared more cruel and more terrible
than before, and he longed passionately not only for freedom,
but also for the punishment of those who had arranged and
who kept up this cruel injustice. Kondratieflf devoted him-
self with passion to the acquirement of knowledge. It was
not clear to him how. knowledge should bring about the reali-
sation of the social ideal, but he believed that the knowledge
that had shown him the injustice of the state in which he
lived would also abolish that injustice itself. Besides knowl-
edge would, in his opinion, raise him above others. There-
fore he left oflf drinking and smoking, and devoted all his
leisure time to study. The revolutionist gave him lessons,
and his thirst for every kind of knowledge, and the facility
with which he to6k it in, surprised her. In two years he had
mastered algebra, geometry, history— which he was specially
fond of — and made acquaintance with artistic and critical,
and especially socialistic literature. The revolutionist was
arrested, and Kondratiefif with her, forbidden books having
been found in their possession, and they were imprisoned and
then exiled to the Vologda Government. There Kondratiefif
became acquainted with NovodvoroflF, and read a great deal
more revolutionary literature, remembered it all, and became
still firmer in his socialistic views. While in exile he became
leader in a large strike, which ended in the destruction of a
factory and the murder of the director. He was again ar
rested and condemned to Siberia,
His religious views were of the same negative nature as
his views of the existing economic conditions. Having seen
the absurdity of the religion in which he was brought up, and
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vronged. He
/hen they, the
tree, got up
thing whistle,
iployer's chil-
ts from fairy-
lie afterwards
mist came to
ticing his su-
blets to Kon-
liim, and how
• himself and
his mind, the
more terrible
for freedom,
arranged and
devoted him-
:dge. It was
•out the reali-
le knowledge
in which he
asides knowl-
lers. There-
voted all his
him lessons,
d the facility
years he had
was specially
and critical.
:utionist was
)ooks having
prisoned and
: Kondratieff
a great deal
, and became
le he became
truction of a
as again ar-
ve nature as
Having seen
ught up, and
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having gained with great effort, and at first \iiith fear, but
later with rapture, freedom from it, he did not tire of
viciously and with venom ridiculing priests and religious
dogmas, as if wishing to revenge himself for the deception
that had been practised on him.
He was ascetic through habit, contented himself with very
little, and, like all those used to work from childhood and
whose muscles have been developed, he could work much and
easily, and was quick at any manual labour; but what he
valued most was the leisure in prisons and halting stations,
which enabled him to continue his studies. He was now
studying the first volume of Karl Marks's, and carefully hid
the book in his sack as if it were a great treasure. He be-
haved with reserve and indifference to all his comrades, ex-
cept Novodvoroff, to whom he was greatly attached, and
whose arguments on all subjects he accepted as unanswer-
able truths.
He had an indefinite contempt for women, whom he
looked upon as a hindrance in all necessary business. But he
pitied Maslova and was gentle with her, for he considered
her an example of the way the lower are exploited by the
upper classes. The same reason made him dislike Nekhlu-
doff, so that he talked little with him, and never pressed
Nekhludoff's hand, but only held out his own to be pressed
when greeting him.
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and nntfrprlnnf '• ^."'"'"^ "P ^']^ ^°' ^^'■"^' t'^^ tea was made
ft rS L i ' ° ni»g\and cups, and milk was added to
Ir .n^ ' wu ""^^ ^"A"^^^^^ '^'^ ^^d' hard-boiled eggs, but-
ter and calf s head and feet were placed on the cloth Every-
S "\°7^;°V^^ds the part of the shelf beds which took the
place of the table and sat eating and talking. Rantzeva sat on
Zu^ w'a "" H^ ^^K"" °^ ^''' ^^t cloak and wrapped hi m-
lu'doff ' ■' ^ ^""^ '^^' ^" ^^' °^" P^^^^ talking to Nek^-
tT.i^^lf^*^f cold and damp march and the dirt and disorder
eefit tidv .7."^ ^T'- ^''i ^^'r^^' P^'"^ they had taken to
uu;l^.l\ after havmg drunk hot tea and eaten, they were
all m the best and brightest of spirits ^
fhJ.J^^^ 1^^* *''V^^'"P °^ ^^^t' the screams and abuse of
them nf";!""'"' ''^'^i- ''^'"^ '^^""gh the wall, reminding
them of their surroundmgs, seemed only to increase the sens!
of cozmess. As on an island in the midst of the sea ?hese
people felt themselves for a brief interval not sLmVd bv
«^e degradation and sufferings which surrounded them ; this
made heir spirits nse, and excited them. They talked abou
aSd';im''''fl ''"' P^'^^"^ ?,°^'t^°" ^"^ that whkh
tlln i ^''''"' ^' 't g:enerally happens among young
men, and women especially, if they are forced to remain to
gether, as these people were, all sorts of agreements Tnd dis
agreements and attractions, curiously blendeT had snrune
up among them. Almost all of them were inlove NovJ
voroff was in love with the pretty, smiling Grabetz This
Grabetz w-as a young. thoughtless"girl who had gone in for
a course of study, perfectly indifferent to revolutiSnary ques
tions. but succumbing to the influence of the da^.she com-
promised herseU in some way and was exiled The ch^f
interest of her life during the time of her trial in prison am
m exile was her success with men, just as it had been "v he
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she was free. Now on the way she comforted herself with
the fact that Novodvoroff had taken a fancy to her, and she
fell in love with him. Vera Doukhova, who was very prone
to fall in love herself, but did not awaken love in others,
though she was always hoping for mutual love, was some-
times drawn to Nabatoff, then to Novodvoroff. Kryltzoff
felt something like love for Mary Pavlovna. He loved her
with a man's love, but knowing how she regarded this sort
of love, hid his feelings under the guise of friendship and
gratitude for the tenderness with which she attended to his
wants. Nabatoff and Rantzeva were attached to each other
by very complicated ties. Just as Mary Pavlovna was a per-
fectly chaste maiden, in the same way Rantzeva was perfectly
chaste as her own husband's wife. When only a schoolgirl
of sixteen she fell in love with Rantzeff, a student of the
Petersburg University, and married him before he left the
university, when she was only nineteen vears old. During
his fourth year at the university her husband had become
mvolved in the students' rows, was exiled from Petersburg,
and turned revolutionist. She left the medical courses she
was attending, followed him, and also turned revolutionist.
If she had not considered her husband the cleverest and best
of men she would not have fallen in love with him ; and if
she had not fallen in love would not have married ; but hav-
ing fallen in love and married him whom she thought the
best and cleverest of men, she naturallv looked upon life and
Its aim'-, in the way the best and cleverest of men looked at
them. At first he thought the aim of life was to learn, and
she looked upon study as the aim of life. He became a revo-
lutionist, and so did she. She could demonstrate very clearly
that the existing state of things could not go on, and that it
was everybody's duty to fight this state of things and to try
to bring about conditions in which the individual could
develop freely, etc. And she imagined that she really thought
and felt all this, but in reality she only regarded everything
her husband thought as absolute truth, and only sought for
perfect agreement, perfect identification of her own soul with
his which alone could give her full moral satisfaction. The
parting with her husband and their child, whom her mother
had taken, was very hard to bear : but she bore it firmly and
quietly, since it was for her husband's sake and fnr that
cause which she had not the slightest doubt was true, since
he served it. She was always with her husband in thoughts,
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So that in all this circle only Mary Pavlovna anH T^nn
dratieff were quite free from love affairs
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CHAPTER XIV.
CONVERSATIONS IN PRISON.
zi^rVerZllv^r^ ^ ^i^^^'t *'^^ ^'''^ ^^t"«ha, as usual,
fnewhh'hl A °^ '^'u^ *&' ^^^" °^ Kryltzoff. convers-
mg with h,m. Among other things he told him the story of
Makar s crime and about his request to him. Kryltzoff lis-
tened attentively, gazing at Nekhludoff with gUstening
" Yes," said Kryltzoff suddenly, " I often think that here
we are going side by side with the^i, and who a "they ' The
norknowThr r*:^' ^'^ ^°^"^' ^"^ y^^ -^ -^t only l
not know them, but do not even wish to know them And
en7n;irs^\T^yt"riS:V^ey hate us and look u^l ufa^
off' ^'^Th.'^ "°'^'"f *^'"^'^ ^^"* '^'" b^oke in Novodvor-
ott. I he masses always worship power only. The govern
ment is m power, and the, wors4 it and hate u To mo"-
ITrl <f l" ^^^' ^^' P°^^^' ^"d they will worship us "he
sa d with his grating voice. At that moment a volley of
abuse and the rattle of chains sounded from behind the waH
ingt "^'' Murr f ::i ^^'"^ '^^^^"' ^-^ -- °- — n-
'' Hear them the beasts ! What intercourse can there be
between us and such as them?" quietly remarked Novod-
" You call them beasts, and Nekhludoff was just telHnfr
me about such an action! " irritably retorted Krvtzoff and
low villager. That is not the action of a beast, it is hero-
"hf^'UlrTf^'" Novodvoroff ejaculated ironically
It s difficult for us to understand the emotions of these
people and the motives on which they act. \-oS see Ji e?!
Snal.'' ' "'' '"' '' "^^ '^ simpl/jealousy'of that^Xr
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" How is it that you never wish to see anything good in
another? " Mary Pavlovna said suddenly, flaring up.
" How can one see what does not exist ! "
" How does it not exist, when a man risks dyine a terrible
death ? "
" I think," said Novodvoroflf, " that if we mean to do our
work, the first condition is that" (here Kondratieflf put
down the book he was reading by the lamplight and began
to listen attentively to his master's words) " we should not
give way to fancy, but look at things as they are. We should
do all in our power for the masses, and expect nothing in
return. The masses can only be the object of our activity,
but cannot be our fellow-workers as long as they remain in
that state of inertia they are in at present," he went on, as
if delivering a lecture. " Therefore, to expect help from
them before the process of development— that process which
we are preparing them for—has taken place is an illusion."
' What process of development ? " Kryltzoff began, flush-
ing all over. " We say that we are against arbitrary rule
and despotism, and is this not the most awful despotism ? "
^^ " No despotism whatever," quietly rejoined Novodvoroflf.
I am only saying that I know the path that the people must
travel, and can show them that path."
" But how can you be sure that the path you show is the
true path ? Is this not the same kind of despotism that lay at
the bottom of the Inquisition, all persecutions, and the great
revolution? They, too, knew the one true way, by means
of their science."
"Their having erred is no proof of my going to err;
besides, there is a great difference between the ravings of
idealogues and the facts based on sound, economic science."
Novodvoroff's voice filled the room ; he alone was speaking,
all the rest were silent.
" They are always disputing," Mary Pavlovna said, when
there was a moment's silence.
And you yourself, what do you think about it ? " Nekh-
ludoflf asked her.
" I think KryltzoflF is right when he says we should not
force our views on the people."
"And you, Katusha?" asked Nekhludoflf with a smile,
waiting anxiously for her answer, fearing she would say
something awkward.
>^thing good in
ing up.
lying a terrible
lean to do our
ondratieff put
ght and began
we should not
re. We should
ect nothing in
if our activity,
:hey remain in
le went on, as
ect help from
process which
s an illusion."
J began, flush-
arbitrary rule
1 despotism ? "
Novodvorojff,
le people must
m show is the
ism that lay at
and the great
.^ay, by means
going to err;
he ravings of
omic science."
was speaking,
na said, when
-It it?" Nekh-
ve should not
with a smile,
he would say
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" I think the common people are wrong'ed," she said, and
blushed scarlet. " I think they are dreadfully wn*- v^ed."
" That's right, Maslova, quite right," cried iNabatoflf.
" They are terribly wronged, the people, and they must
not be wronged, and therein lies the whole of our task."
" A curious idea of the object of revolution," Novodvoroflf
remarked crossly, and be ;an to smoke.
" I cannot talk to him," said Kryltzoflf in a whisper, and
was silent.
" And it is much better not to talk," Nekhludoff said.
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novodv6roff.
Although Novodvoroff was higlily esteemed of all the
revolutionists, though he was very learned, and considered
very wise, Nekhludoff reckoned him among those of the
revolutionists who, being below the average moral level,
were very far below it. His inner life was of a nature
directly opposite to that of Simonson's. Simonson was one
of those people (of an essentially masculine type) whose
actions follow the dictates of their reason, and are deter-
mined by it. Novodvoroff belonged, on the contrary, to the
class of people of a feminine type, whose reason is directed
partly towards the attainment of aims set by their feelings,
partly to the justification of acts suggested by their feelings.
The whole of Novodvoroff's revolutionary activity, though
he could explain it very eloquently and very convincinglv,
appeared to Nekhludoff to be founded on nothing but ambi-
tioii and the desire for supremacy. At first his capacity for
assimilating the thoughts of others, and of expressing them
correctly, had given him a position of supremacy among
pupils and teachers in the gymnasium and the university,
where qualities such as his are highly prized, and he was
satisfied. When he had finished his studies and received
his diploma he suddenly altered his views, and from a mod-
ern liberal he turned into a rabid Narodovoletz, in order (so
Kryltzoff, who did not like him, said) to gain supremacy in
another sphere.
As he was devoid of those moral and aesthetic qualities
which call forth doubts and hesitation, he very soon acquired
a position in the revolutionary world which satisfied him—
that of the leader of a party. Having once chosen a direc-
tion, he never doubted or hesitated, and was therefore certain
that he never made a mistake. Everything seemed quite
simple, clear and certain. And the narrowness and one-
sidedness of his views did make everything seem simple and
clear. One only had to be logical, 'as he said. His self-
assurance was so great that it either repelled people or made
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;cl of all the
[1 considered
those of the
moral level,
of a nature
son was one
:ype) whose
ci are deter-
trary, to the
n is directed
leir feelings,
leir feelings,
vity, though
onvincingly,
ig but ambi-
capacity for
essing them
nacy among
; university,
and he was
nd received
rom a mod-
in order (so
.ipremacy in
tic qualities
)on acquired
isfied him —
sen a direc-
lioTc certain
jemed quite
jS and one-
1 simple and
His self-
pie or made
them submit to him. As he carried on his work among
very young people, his boundless self-assurance led them to
believe him very profound and wise ; the majority did sub-
mit to him, and he had a great success in revolutionary
circles. His activity was directed to the prci)aration of a
rising in which he was to usurp the power and call together
a council. A programme, composed by him, should be
proposed before the council, and he felt sure that this pro-
gramme of his solved every problem, and that it would be
impossible not to carry it out.
His comrades respected but did not love him. He did
not love any one, looked upon all men of note as upon rivals,
and would have willingly treated them as old male monkeys
treat young ones if he could have done it. He would have
torn all mental power, every capacity, from other men, so
that they should not interfere with the display of his talents.
He behaved well only to those who bowed before him. Now,
on the journey he behaved well to Kondratieff, who was
influenced by his propaganda ; to Vera Doukhova and pretty
little Grabetz, who were both in love with him. Although
in principle he was in favour of the woman's movement, yet
in the depth of his soul he co.isidered all women stupid and
insignificant except those whom he was sentimentally in
love with (as he was now in love with Grabetz), and such
women he considered to be exceptions, whose merits he
alone was capable of discerning.
The question of the relations of the sexes he also looked
upon as thoroughly solved by accepting free union. He had
one nominal and one real wife, from both of whom he was
separated, having come to the conclusion that there was no
real love between them, and now he thought of entering on
a free union with Grabetz. He despised NekhludoflF for
" playing the fool," as Novodvoroflf termed it, with Maslova,
but especially for the freedom Nekhludofif took of consider-
ing the defects of the existing system and the methods of
correcting those defects in a manner which was not only
not exactly the same as Novodvoroff's, but was Nekhludoff's
own — a prince's, that is, a fool's manner. NekhludoflF felt
this relation of Novodvoroflf's towards him, and knew to
his sorrow that in spite of the state of good will in which
he found himself on this journey he could not help paying
this man in his own coin, and could not stifle the strong
antipathy he felt for him.
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SIMONSON SPEAKS TO NEKHLtJDOFF.
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The voices of officials sounded from the next room. All
the prisoners were silent, and a sergeant, followed by two
convoy soldiers, entered. The time of the inspection had
come. The sergeant counted every one, and when Nekhlu-
doff's turn came he addressed him with kindly familiarity.
You must not stay any longer. Prince, after the inspec-
tion ; you must go now."
Nekhltidoff knew what this meant, went up to the ser-
geant and shoved a three-rouble note into his hand.
" Ah, well, what is one to do with you ; stay a bit longer,
if you like." The sergeant was about to go when another
sergeant, followed by a convict, a spare man with a thin
beard and a bruise under his eye, came in.
" It's about the girl I have come," said the convict.
" Here's dr Idy come," came the ringing accents of a child's
voice, and a flaxen head appeared from behind Rantzeva,
who. with Katusha's and Mary Pavlovna's help, was
making a new garment for the child out of one of Rantzeva's
own petticoats.
" Yes, daughter, it's me," Bousovkin, the prisoner, said
softly.
" She is quite comfortable here," said TvTary Pavlovna.
looking with pity at Bousovkin's bruised face. '" Leave her
with us."
" The ladies are making me new clothes," said the i^irl,
pointing to Rantzeva's sewing — " ni-i-ice re-ed ones," she
went on, prattling.
" Do you wish to sleep with us? " asked Rantzeva. caress-
ing the child.
" Yes, I wish. And daddy, too."
" No, daddy can't. Well, leave her then," she said, turn-
ing to the father.
" Yes, you may leave her," said the first sergeant, and
went out with the other.
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t room. All
)wecl by two
spection had
hen Nekhlu-
1 familiarity.
r the inspec-
) to the ser-
land.
a bit longer,
?hen another
with a thin
jnvict.
;s of a child's
id Rantzeva,
; help, was
f Rantzeva's
risoner, said
y Pavlovna.
" Leave her
aid the ^irl,
1 ones." she
zeva. caress-
e said, turn-
:rgeant, and
As soon as they were out of the room Nabatoflf went up
to Bousovkin, slapped him on the shoulder, and said :
" I say, old fellow, is it true that Karmanoff wishes to
exchange? "
Bousovk'in's kindly, gentle face turned suddenly sad and
a veil seemed to dim his eyes.
" We have heard nothing — hardly." he said, and with the
same dimness still over his eyes he turned ti^ the child.
" Well, Aksutka, it seems you're to make yourself com-
fortable with the ladies," and he hurried away.
" It's true about the exchange, and he knows it very well,"
said Nabatoflf.
" What are you going to do? "
" I shall tell the authorities in the next town. I knovv
both prisoners by sight," said Nekhludoflf.
All were silent, fearing a recommencement of the dispute.
Simonson, who had been lying with his arms thrown
back behind his head, and not speaking, rose, and deter-
minately walked up to Nekhludoflf, carefully passing round
those who were sitting.
" Could you listen to me now ? "
" Of course," and Nekhludoflf rose and followed him.
Katusha looked up with an expression of suspense, and
meeting Nekhludoflf's eyes, she blushed and shook her
head.
" What I want to speak to you about is this," Simonson
began, when they had come out into th<^> assa^e. In the
passage the din of the criminal's voices and shouts sounded
louder. Nekhludoflf made a face, but Simonson did not
seem to take any notice.
" Knowing of your relations to Katerina Maslova," he
began seriously and frankly, with his kind eyes looking
straight into Nekhludoflf's face, " I consider it my duty"
He was obliged to stop because two voices were heard dis-
puting and shouting, both it once, close to the door.
" I tell you, blockhead, they are not mine," one voice
shouted.
" May you choke, you devil," snorted the other.
At this moment Mary Pavlovna came out into the pas-
sage.
" How can one talk here ? " she said ; " go in. Vera is alone
there," and she went in at the second door, and entered a
tiny room, evidently meant for a solitary cell, which was
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now placed at the disposal of the political women prisoners
Vera Doukhova lay covered up, head and all, on the bed.
" She has got a headache, and is asleep, so she cannot
hear you, and I will go away," said Mary Pavlovna.
" On the contrary, stay here," said Simonson ; " I have
no secrets from any one, certainly none from you."
" All right," said Mary Pavlovna, and moving her whole
body fro.Ti side to side, like a child, so as to get farther back
on to the bed, she settled down to listen, her beautiful hazel
eyes seeming to look somewhere far away.
^^ " Well, then, this is my business," Simonson repeated.
Knowmg of your relations to Katerina Maslova, I con-
sider myself bound to explain to you my relations to her."
Nekhludoflf could not help admiring the simplicity and
truthfulness with which Simonson spoke to him.
" What do you mean ? "
" I mean that I should like to marry Katerina Mas-
lova " .
" How strange! " said Mary Pavlovna, fixing her eyes on
Simonson.
" — ^nd so I made up my mind to ask her to be my wife,"
Simonson continued.
]^ What can I do? It depends on her," said Nekhludoflf.
Yes; but she will not come to any decision without
you."
"Why?"
" Because as long as your relations with her are unset-
tled she cannot make up her mind."
"As far as I am concerned, it is finally settled. I should
like to do what I consider to be my duty and also to lighten
her fate, but on no account would I wish to put any re-
straint on her."
" Yes, but she does not wish to accept your sacrifice."
" It is no sacrifice."
"^ And I know that this decision of hers is final."
" Well, then, there is no need to speak to nie," said Nekh-
ludoflf.
" She wants you to acknowledge that vou think as she
does."
" How can I acknowledge that I must not do what I con-
sider to be my duty? All I can sav is that T am not free
but she is."
Simonson was silent; then, after thinking a little, he
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ti the bed.
o she cannot
vlovna.
ion ; "I have
^ou."
ng her whole
: farther back
sautiful hazel
>on repeated,
slova, I con-
ions to her."
mpHcity and
n.
iterina Mas-
;• her eyes on
be my wife,"
JekhludoflF.
iion without
!r are unset-
d. I should
so to lighten
put any re-
jacrifice."
il."
' said Nekh-
hiiik as she
what T con-
im not free,
a little, he
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said: " Very well, then, I'll tell her. You must not think I
am m love with her," he continued ; " I love her as a splen-
did, unique, human being who has suffered much. I want
nothing from her. I have only an awful longing to help her,
to lighten her posi "
Nekhludoff was surprised to hear the trembling in Simon-
son's voice.
" — To lighten her position," Simonson continued. " If
she does not wish to accept your help, let her accept mine.
If she consents, I shall ask to be sent to the place where she
will be imprisoned. Four years are not an eternity. I
would live near her, and perhaps might lighten her fate
" and he again stopped, too agitated to continue.
" What am I to say ? " said Nekhludoff. " I am very glad
she has found such a protector as you "
" That's what I wanted to know," Simonson interrupted.
" I wanted to know if, loving her and wishing her happi-
ness, you would consider it good for her to marry me ? "
]] Oh, yes," said Nekhludoff decidedly.
" It all depends on her ; I only wish that this suffering
soul should find rest," said Simonson, with such childHke
tenderness as no one could have expected from so morose-
looking a man.
Simonson rose, and stretching his lips out to Nekhludoff,
smiled shyly and kissed him.
" So I shall tell her," and he went away.
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" I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY."
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" What do you think of that ? " said Mary Pavlovna. " In
love — quite in love. Now, that's a thing' I never should
have expected, that Valdemar Simonson should be in love,
and in the silliest, most boyish manner. It is strange, and,
to say the truth, it is sad," and she sighed.
" But she ? Katusha ? How does she look at it, do you
think?" Nekhliidoflf asked.
"She?" Mary Pavlovna waited, evidently wishing to
give as exact an answer as possible. " She ? Well, you see,
in spite of her past she has one of the most moral natures
— and such fine feelings. She loves you — loves you well,
and is happy to be able to do you even the negative good
of not letting you get entangled with her. Marriage with
you would be a terrible fall for her, worse than all that's
past, and therefore she will never consent to it. And yet
your presence troubles her."
" Well, %yhat am I to do? Ought I to vanish? "
Mary Pavlovna smiled her sweet, childlike smile, and
said, " Yes, partly."
" How is one to vanish partly? "
" I am talking nonsense. But as for her, I should like to
tell you that she probably sees the silliness of this raptur-
ous kind of love (he has not spoken to her), and is both
flattered and afraid of it. I am not competent to judge in
such affairs, you know, still I believe that on his part it is
the most ordinary man's feeling, though it is masked. He
says that this love arouses his energy and is Platonic, but I
know that even if it is exceptional, still at the bottom it is
degrading."
Mary Pavlovna had wandered from the subject, having
started on her favourite theme.
" Well, but what am I to do? " NekhludofT asked.
" I think you should tell her everything ; it is always best
that everything should be clear. Have a talk with her; 1
shall call her. Shall I ? " said Mary Pavlovna.
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avlovna. " In
never should
Id be in love,
strange, and,
at it, do you
J wishing to
^ell, you see,
loral natures
'es you wrell,
egative good
[arriage with
lan all that's
it. And yet
?"
t smile, and
hould like to
this raptur-
and is both
: to judge in
his part it is
nasked. He
atonic, but I
bottom it is
)ject, having
sked.
> always best
with her; 1
" If you please," said Nekhludoff, and Mary Pavlovna
went.
A strange feeling overcame Nekhludoff when he was
alone in the little room with the sleeping Vera Doiikhova,
listening to her soft breathing, broken now and then by
moans, and to the incessant din that came through the two
doors that separated him from the criminals. What Simon-
son had told him freed him from the self-imposed duty,
which had seemed hard and strange to him in his weak
moments, and yet now he felt something that was not
merely unpleasant but painful.
He had a feeling that this offer of Simonson's destroyed
the exceptional character of his sacrifice, and thereby les-
sened its value in his own and others' eyes ; if so good a man
who was not bound to her by any kind of tie wanted to join
his fate to hers, then this sacrific was not so great. There
may have also been an admixture of ordinary jealousy. He
had got so used to her love that he did not like to admit
that she loved another.
Then it also upset the r \ he had formed of living near
her while she was doing erm. If she married Simon-
son his presence would be unnecessary, and he would have
to form new plans.
Before he had time to analyse his feelings the loud din of
the prisoners' voices came in with a rush (something special
was going on among them to-day) as the door opened to let
Katusha in.
She stepped briskly close up to him and said, " Mary
Pavlovna has sent me."
" Yes, I must have a talk with you. Sit down. Valdemar
Simonson has been speaking to me."
She sat down and folded her hands in her lap and seemed
quite calm, but hardly had Nekhludofif uttered Simonson's
name when she flushed crimson.
" What did he say? " she asked.
" He told me he wanted to marry you."
Her face suddenly puckered up with pain, but she said
nothing and only cast down her eyes.
" He is asking for my consent or my advice. I told him
that it all depends entirely on you — that you must decide."
" Ah, what docs it all mean? Why? " she muttered, and
looked in his eyes with that peculiar squint that always
strangely affected Nekhludoff,
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They sat silent for a few minutes looking into each other's
eyes, and this look told much to both of them.
" You must decide," Nekhludoff repeated,
cid'd^'^^* a"i I to decide? Everything has long been de-
" No ; you must dec te whether you will accept Mr. Simon-
son's offer," said Nekhludoff.
" What sort of a wife can I be— I, a convict ? Why should
1 rum Mr. Simonson, too ? " she said, with a frown.
'I Well, but if the sentence should be mitigated."
" Oh, leave me alone. I have nothing more to say " she
said, and rose to leave the room.
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1.
long been de-
pt Mr. Simon-
? Why should
rovvn.
ited."
e to say," she
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neveroff's fate.
When, following Katusha, Nekhludoff returned to the
men s room, he founJ every one there in agitation. Nabatoff
who went about all over the place, and who got to know
everybody, and noticed everything, had just brought news
which staggered them all. The news was that he had dis-
covered a note on a wall, written by the revolutionist Petlin
who had been sentenced to hard labour, and who, every one
thought, had long since reached ihe Kara ; and now it turned
out that he had passed this wav quite recently, the only polit-
ical prisoner among criminal convicts.
" On the 17th of August," so ran the note, " I was sent oflf
alone vyith the criminals. Neveroff was with me, but hanged
himself in the lunatic asylum in Kasan. I am well and in
good spirits and hope for the best."
All were discussing Petlin's position and the possible
reasons of Neveroff's suicide. Only Kryltzoflf sat silent and
preoccupied, his glistening eyes gazing fixedly in front of
''My husband told me that Neveroff had a vision while
still in the Petropavlovski prison," said Rantzeva.
' Yes he was a poet, a dreamer ; this sort of people can-
not stand solitary confinement," said Novodvoroff " Now
1 never gave my imagination vent when in solitary confine-
ment, but arranged my days most systematically, and in this
way always bore it very well."
"What is there unbearable about it? Why. I used to be
glad when they locked me up," said xNabatoff cheerfullv
wishing to dispel the general depression.
•'A fellow's afraid of everything; of being arrested him-
self and entangling others, and of spoiling the whole busi-
ness, and then he gets locked up, and all responsibilitv is at
an end, and he can rest ; he can just sit and smoke " '
> ou knew him well ? " asked Marv Pavlovna, glancing
anxiously at the altered, haggard expression of Kryltzoff's
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_ ' Neveroff a dreamer? " Kryltzoff suddenly began, pant-
ing for breath as if he had been shouting or singing for r>.
long time. " Neveroff was a man ' such as the earth bears
few of,' as our doorkeeper used to express it. Yes, he had a
nature like crystal, you could see him right through ; he could
not lie, he could not dissemble ; not simply thin skinned, but
with all his nerves laid bare, as if he were flayed. Yes, his
was a complicated, rich nature, not such a But where is
the use of talking ? " he added, with a vicious frown. " Shall
we first educate the people and then change the forms of life,
or first change the forms and then struggle, using peaceful
propaganda or terrorism ? So we ^o on disputing while they
kill; they do not dispute — they know their business; they
don't care whether dozens, hundreds of men perish— and
what men ! No ; that the best should perish is just what they
want. Yes, Herzen said that when the Decembrists were
wii.idrawn from circulation the average level of our society
sank. I should think so, indeed. Then Herzen himself and
his fellows were withdrawn ; now is the turn of the Never-
oflfs." >
They can't all be got rid ofif," said Nabatoiif, in his cheer-
ful tones. " There will always be left enough to continue
the breed. No, there won't, if we show any pity to they
there," Nabatoff said, raising his voice; and not letting
himself be interrupted, " Give me a cigarette."
" Oh, Anatole, it is not good for you," said Mary Pav-
lovna. '-' Please do not smoke."
" Oh, leave me alone," he said angrily, and lit a cigarette,
but at once began to cough and to retch, as if he were going
to be sick. Having cleared his throat though, he A^ent on:
What we have been doing is not the thing at all. Not
to argue, but for all to unite— to destroy them— that's it."
" But they are also human beings," said Nekhludoff.
" No, they are not human, they who can do what they are
doing No There, now, I heard that some kind of
bombs and balloons have been invented. Well, one ought
to go up in such a balloon and sprinkle bombs down^on
them as if they were bugs, until they are all exterminated
- - Yes. Because " he was going to continue, but,
flushing all over, he began coughing worse than before, and
a stream of blood rushed from his mouth.
NabatofT ran to get ice. Mary Pavlovna brought valerian
drops and oflfered them to him, but he, breathing quickly
began, pant-
singing for r>,
e earth bears;
Yes, he had a
agh ; he could
skinned, but
ed. Yes, his
But where is
3wn. " Shall
forms of life,
sing peaceful
ig while they
isiness ; they
perish — and
1st what they
mbrists were
f our society
himself and
f the Never-
in his cheer-
to continue
pity to they
not letting
Mary Pav-
t a cigarette,
» were going
he A^ent on :
at all. Not
—that's it."
hludoff.
hat they are
ome kind of
, one ought
bs down on
xterminated
mtinue. but,
before, and
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rei^'Sfl' P"'!'""^ ^'''^Z^y "^''^ ^^' *^'"' ^h'te hand, and
kept his eyes closed. When the ice and cold water had
eased Kryltzofif a little and he had been put to bed, Nekhm-
doff, having said good-n.ght to everybody, went out with
the sergeant, who had been waiting for him some time
.=i:i!f ^""J'"^\^ ^f '"^ "ow quiet, and most of them were
asleep Though the people were lying on and under the
bed shelves and in the space between, they could not all be
placed mside the rooms, and some of them lay in the passage
daks ThT^' ""^'' '^''l ^^^^^ ^"^ '^''^'^ ^>^'^ their
Cloaks Ihe moans and sleepy voices came through the
open doors and sounded through the passage. Everywhere
doair^o'nlv^T '^ '"'T" beings covered with 'prison
Cloaks Only a few men who were sitting in the bachelors'
room by the light of a candle end, which they put out Xn
off hfs sLt Tl.^V'r-'" '•"IP'^^f.^." P^^^'"& the vermin
ott his shirt. The foul air in the political prisoners' rooms
eemed pure compared to the stinking closeness here The
smoking lamp shone dimly as throu|i. a mist, and t was
difficult to breathe. Stepping along%he passage, one had
oni fn f\''^,"^ ^°^/" ^"iPty space, and having put down
one foot had to find place for the other. Three persons
who had evidently found no room even in the passage lay
n he anteroom, close to the stinking and leaking tuk One
march LTith"thi^ '^^°'' "^^T Nekhludoff had often seen
marching with the gang; another was a boy about twelve-
leV^L'nlTfTem^.^"^ ^^'^'^ ^°"^^^^^' ^^^ ^^ ^-^ - the
When he had passed out of the gate Nekhludoff took
of'Sty at '"' '""^ '°''"™''' '° "^^^'"^ '" o'eptts
iii
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m
ght valerian
ling quickly
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CHAPTER XIX.
lI li '>
" WHY TS IT DONE? "
It had cleared up and was starlight. Except in a few
places the mud was frozen hard when Nekhludoff returned
to his inn and knocked at one of its dark windows. The
broad-shouldered labourer came barefooted to open the door
for him and let him in. Through a door on the right, lead-
ing to the back premises, came the loud snoring of the
carters, who slept there, and the sound of many horses
chewing oats came from the yard. The front room, where
a red lamp was burning in front of the icons, smelt of worm-
wood and perspiration, and some one with mighty lungs
was snoring behind a partition. Nekhludoff undressed, put
his leather travelling pillow on the oilcloth sofa, spread out
his rug and lay down, thinking over all he had seen and
heard that day ; the boy sleeping on the liquid that oozed
trom the stinking tub, with his head on the convict's lee
seemed more dreadful than all else.
Unexpected and important as his conversation with
bimonson and Katusha that evening had been, he did not
dwell on it ; his situation in relation to that subject was so
complicated and indefinite that he drove the thought from
his mind But the picture of those unfortunate beings,
inha mg the noisome air, and lying in the liquid oozing out
of the stinking tub, especially that of the bov. with his
innocent face asleep on the leg of a criminal, came all the
more vividly to his mind, and he could not get it out of his
head.
To know that somewhere far awav there arc men wiio
torture other men by infli ting all sorts of humiliations and
inhuman degradation an(. sufferings on them, or for three
months incessantly to I- ik on while men were inflicting
these humiliations and sufferings on other men is a very
different thing. And Nekhludoff felt it. More than once
during these three months he askerl himself, " Am I mad
because T see what others do not, or arc they mad that do
these things that I see?"
r
:ept in a few
idoff returned
indows. The
open the door
le right, lead-
lonng- of the
many horses
room, where
nelt of worm-
nighty lungs
ndressed, put
a, spread out
lad seen and
d that oozed
convict's leg,
rsation with
I, he did not
ibject was so
houjT^ht from
mate beings,
(1 oozing out
oy, with his
came all the
it out of his
re men who
liliations and
or for three
;re inflicting
?n is a very
re than once
' Am I mad
mad tiiat do
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c^y f ^hey (and there were many of them) did what seemed
so astonishing and terrible to him with such quiet assuraTce
hat what they were doing was necessary and was important
and use ul work that it was hard to believe thly were mad
nor could he, conscious of the clearness of his thouXs'
^:?^X' ^"' ^" ''' '-'' ''"^ -^^^^
imprt'sed NekhlLloff^^^ '"^ ^"'"'"^ '^'''' '^'^'^ '"^"ths
W ?W« u'°^- f'"°"' ^"""''S the people who were
free, those were chosen, by means of trials and the admhiis-
tration, who were the most nervous, the most hot temoered
the most excitable, the most gifted, and t^e stLgTbut
dang?rou?than m^ '"?1"^- ^}!''' P^°P>^' ^^ ^ -" -ore
InTiS ° • "^^"y °^ *^°s^ who remained free were first
locked in prisons, transported to Siberia, where thevvverl
provided for and kept months and years in perfecicileness
and away from nature, their families, and useful work tW
'^oT^iJ''^l^^l,T''%^' "SrH^^ fo^^ a nattaTa'd
;l^l A ! ., ^ "'^^^'y- Secondlv, these people were sub
i es-chainr'^h'/ unnecessary indignity ?n t'heseTffe^t
K!?, , ' .^'^^ved heads, shameful clothing— that is
weiLTn'n ^^P^'!,^1.°f the chief motives tha fnduce the
sense of sh' ^"""^ ^V'l' '^^ ''^^''^ ^^'^ P"blic opinin. he
ThtrU .t^""^ ^""^ ^^^ consciousness of human Siitv
Thirdly they were continually exposed to dangers sudi a^
t on'l'"^'" '° ^""^^"^"^ '" P^^^^^ of confinemen ' exhaus
tion, flogging, not to mention accidents, such as s instrokes
drowning or conflagrations, when the instinct of sdf-preser
crtucTionr and V'' '"'l^^' "^^^^ "--1 men c'omm t
Xrs ' "'' '"'^ ^'*^°"^ whe" committed bv
aiiujecieci 10, Dv tile sntfcri'ifrs u^flirfnA -.1 1 -i )
and olrl n-.pn • u\r ri^ .-^'-"•'f,^ iMUcted un children, women
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; 1
■i'!
XulrwiltS^^^^^^^^ -iting the.
course ; by shooting or Sfn^ the^ V^^I. '"^"^^ '''''''
deprived of their fTeedom who , • ^° ^^°'^ '^^° ^^^re
acts of violence were evS;nYi l-u'^ '" '^^"* ^"^ "^^^ery,
these institutions seemed^'"^^^^ "'°''' permissible. All
duction of depravi vTnd ^n7 ''T '"^'"*"^ ^^'^ ^^^^ pro-
that no other^ conStfons coulcrnm'l?''^ '•? '"^'l " ^^^'"'^^
spreading of this conden Jh i ^ ^."'''^ \^' ^"^ ^°^ the
among tl?e whot popuiation 'P'"'"*^ '"^ "'^^ ^"-^^^^^^^t
surest" mea^fo'fJe'prt^nX *° '?^ ^^^ ^^^^ the
thought Nekh udoff wh^li • ^'^^}-^'^ "^""^^'" °^ persons,"
were beinrdoet the oris Jr'^'f!'"^ '^' ^^'^^« that
year hund^reds of'thoLSf^^f b^tZ^fo't,"\''r^^
pitch of depravity and when rr^^^i ^rouglit to the highest
set free to carrv thrdrDravifv.Kl^ ^'P'^^"^ they were
among the people In X pri on^ had caught in prison
burg, Tomsk and at thf^llu- ■ ^^"len, Ekaterin-
how successfully the obiectsoH.? '''''°"'. Nekhludoff saw
was attained ^ ^ '°'''^*^ '^^'"^d to have set itself
of ?he'Sllnd'^cSirfRusr^^P^^°" "^ ^^^ ^^--"d«
this conception and found A' ^^f^"* "^°'^hty lost
the idea tS anroutSl. ^"^i °"^' ^"""^^^ chiefly on
seemed profitabk AfS if • '''^ '"'" ^^^ justifiable if it
and the S teaehm n're?ch ^^ ^""^ ""'^r ^^^'^ church
that, therefore thev to" "-'^ ^'^ '^^ ^ '^* ^'''^^' ^"^
ludofr noticed threfcct; of '•"''S^/'P ^'^^ ^^^«- Nekh-
he knew-on F^dorofr on M?^ '°" ^^^ ""^ ^" '^^ ^^"^^^ts
after two months amoCt^.' ^^^ ^^^"^ °" ^^'^'' ^ho.
by the wanTof moraSv^-5 l^ ''''"''''^^'' '^"""^^ Nekhludoff
oit during hi^o^rnev how'^."'"'"*'- Nekhludoflf found
marshes, plsuade rcomrad.T ^^"'^'' .^«^^P'"g into the
kill him and feed on hTffesh m.T ^^^h them, and then
was accused of this and arknn Ji^ J'^u^ '^'"g^ '"^" ^ho
most terrible part was that S^^swf^'"^. '^' ?"*> ^"^ the
curring case. ' "^^^ "°t a solitary, but a re-
Only by a special cultivation of viVp ., k
I«.ra.ed in these es.abiish.^e„,t 'cl^rf K.Z^/Xl
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brought to he state of this tramp, who excelled Nietzsche's
newest teaching, and held that everything was possible iml
nothing forbidden, and who spread tL teaSi firs
among the convicts and then anlong the peop e in g^M.era
.1 he only explanation of all that was being done was [he
"ete^n^rari^U: "'T '^- ^''''l' 'Y ---tion" ^ K.V/S
vengeance as it was written in the books. But in realitv
to na's? V^r 'rf resembling any of these results an^
to pass. Instead of vice being put a stop to, it only spread
o ^ald^r^''^ °^^^""^ ^"^'^^^"^^^'- the criminals tere en
w^in^TniT ^^^^'"^"'P '■'^"'■""' *° P"^°" °f ^Is own free
will). Instead of being corrected, every kind of vice was
systematically instilled, while the desire for vengeance did
not ^yeaken by the measures of the governmenf b n v a s
bred in the people who had none of it. '^''""'^"^' '^"^ ''^'
could finVn^^ '' '* clone?" Nekhludoflf asked himself, but
was tharlrthl"'^""- ^1'^ ■''^^\ ^^^'"^^' "^°^t surprising
m?Li?f I "^f ""^^ ^^'"^ ^'°"e accidentally, not by
wi^h^l^'.T^^"'"' ^"'/'^^' '' ^""'^ continued for ^nturies^
useS to be'^'''"'' ?"t ^^^' ^' ^''' the people's no trils
used to be torn and their ears cut off; then thev were
s'amfn'stead T '^ Z'' "^"^^^^^ ^^ transpoTted by
forw^r ! hv tl ° " *^'^ ""^"^ ''^'^'- ^^^ arguments brought
Z^^I J '^ '" government service, who said that the
hings which aroused his indignation were simply hie to
anVthaTttvco^fr^nT"*^ '' '''■' ^^^^^^ °^ co'nfi'nement'
ern tvnl , ^ km ^",^? P"* ^° "^^^^ts if prisons of a mod-
he knew thaTwh'^;'*' ^^1 T; '^'''^y Nekhludoff. because
of ^hZ ^^ '■^''"'^'^'' ^''"^ ^^^s "ot the consequence
read of moH^I "'''''' ^^^^'F"^ent of the prisons. I?e had
electrfcitv relP"'°"', ^'V' t'''''' ^^^"«' °^ executions by
men"ln''.hf 1'''^°^'''' Nekhludoff most was that there were
men m the law courts and in the ministry who received
arge salaries, taken from the people, for reirring to books
written by men like themselves and with like motives and
ordTn^/to'di^'"'/?'^'"^ ^^"^ "^^^^ by thlseh 'sTc
ZuZ^ r^^'^?^ '*^*"tes ; and, in obedience to these
:;ssr?H^t^ -Jilt's .?i^^,:^'-:,^^^
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x\o\v that he had a closer knowledge of prisons Nekh-
ludoff found out that all those vices ^.llu developed among
he pr.soncrs-drunkenness. gambling, cruelty and aU
these ternble crimes, even cannibalis^n-were 'not "Lsua
or 1 ue to degeneration or to the existence of monstrositJe
1 1'""""'' *•''"• r. '''''''- Sou^g hand in hand w th
he gover ment. explained it. !,ut an unavoidable con
sequence of th. incomprehensible delusion that men 'Z
punish one another Nekhludoff saw that canniba sm did
not comirn nee in the marshes, but in the ministry He
lauxers anc officials, from the usher to the minister do not
u^^onM'^' ^'"''i ^°V"^'^^^ °'- '^' ^«°^ °f the p ople abou
vhoni they spoke, but only for the roubles thev vvere pa
for doing the things that were the source whence all this
<Iegradat.on and suffering flowed. This was qutte evident
Can It be, then that all this is done simpiv through
omcials should have their salaries secured to them and ;,
premium paid them, besides, so that they shoudeavc off
doing all that they were doing now? " Nekhludoff thoi^hf
and in spite of the fleas, that seemed to spring up ro?nd
a'a^e'er" ' '°""'"" "''"'""' ''""^"^ ^"^"
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CHAPTER XX.
THE JOURNEY RESUMED.
' awoke" Thf 'L ^f , ''f' /*;' ,"]" '""ff ^'^^'^ Nekhludoff
h^r Sf; Ja"f"afly, had had her tea, and came in wiping
her at. persp.rmg neck with her handkerchief, and said t a^
a sold.er had brought a note from the halting station. The
note ,vas from Mary Pavlovna. She wrote ^Vat twltzofY's
attack was more serious than thev had iriagine.i "We
w.shed him to be left behind and to remai , < ith h, , but
this has not been allowed, so that we shall t.'.. him o - • b
we fear the worst. Please arrange so that if i - .].ould be
m order to get the permission to stav I should be obliged to
Nekhludoff sent the young labourer to the post station
to order horses and began packing up hurriedly. Before' he
had drunk his second tumbler of'tea the three^horsed no t!
Utg'o7^.e'fro '" P°7' "'^^ ^'"^'"^ '-"^' ^he wheels'rat-
f^?VJl A^ T^ T"^ "".' °" '^°"^^- Nekhludoff paid the
fat-necked landlady, hurried out and got into the cart and
gave orders to the driver to go on as fast as po Sible so a
to overtake the gang. Just past the gates of he com minal
and the sick prisoners, as they rattled over the frozen mud
that was just beginning to be rolled smooth by the wheels
(the officer was not there, he had gone in advance) The
soldiers who had evidently been drinking, followed bv the
cans nVadf ' fT^.^ "^"^''" Therelere a great many
carts. In each of the first carts sat six invalid criminal con-
victs, close packed. On each of the last two were /Ce pcJk-
ical prisoners. Novodvoroff, Grabetz and Kondratieff sat on
one Rantzeva, Nabatoff and the woman to whom Marv
Pavlovna had given up her own place on the other, and o^
one of the carts lay Kryltzoff on a heap of hay, with a pillovv
under his hear pnrl aTo,-,, dx„i ^. , ,^.' ' pillow
of the cart
and went up
s head, and Mary Pavlovna sat bv h
Nekhludoff ordered his driver to
to Kryltzoff
iim on ilic edge
stop, got out
of the tipsy soldiers waved
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his hand towards Nekhliidoff, but he paid no attention and
started walking by Kryltzoff's side, holding on to the side of
the cart with his hand. Dressed in a sheepskin coat, with a
iur cap on his head and his mouth bound up with a handker-
chief, he seemed paler and thinner than ever. His beautiful
eyes looked very large and brilliant. Shaken from side to
XT , u,^ the joltings of the cart, he lay with his eyes fixed on
Wekhludoff ; but when asked about his health, he only closed
his eyes and angrily shook his head. All his energy seemed
to be needed in order to bear the jolting of the cart. Mary
Favlovna was on the other side. She exchanged a significant
glance with NekhludoflF, which expressed all her anxiety
about KryltzoflF's state, and then began to talk at once in a
cheerful manner.
" It seems the officer is ashamed of himself," she shouted
so as to be heard above the rattle of the wheels. " Bousov-
kin s nianacles have been removed, and he is carrying his lit-
tle girl himself. Katusha and Simonson are with him, and
Vera, too. She has taken my place."
Kryltzoff said sdmething that could not be heard because
of the noise, and frowning in the effort to repress his coueh
shook his head Then Nekhliidoff stooped towards him, so as
to hear, and Kryhzoff, freeing his mouth of the handker-
chief, whispered :
" Much better now. Only not to catch cold."
Nekhliidoff nodded in acquiescence, and again exchang-ed
a glance with Mary Pavlovna.
" How about the problem of the three bodies? " whispered
Kryltzoff, smiling with great difficulty. " The solution is
difficult.
Nekhliidoff did not understand, but Mary Pavlovna ex-
plained that he meant the well-known mathematical prob-
lem which defined the position of the sun, moon and earth,
which Kryltzoff compared to the relations between Nekhlii-
1? \t "^'^^ ^"^ Simonson. Kryltzoff nodded, to show
that Mary Pavlovna had explained his joke correctly.
" The decision does not lie with me," Nekhliidoff said
'' Did you get my note ? Will you uo it ? " Mary Pavlovna
flSKCCl,
" Certainly," answered Nekhliidoff; and noticing a look of
displeasure on Kryltzoff '<; face, he returned to his convey-
ance, and holding with both hands to the sides of the cart
got in, which jolted with him over the ruts of the rough road'
) attention and
n to the side of
in coat, with a
/ith a handker-
His beautiful
I from side to
s eyes fixed on
he only closed
energy seemed
le cart. Mary
id a significant
II her anxiety
k at once in a
" she shouted,
Is. "Bousov-
irrying his lit-
with him, and
heard because
ress his cough
irds him, so as
the handker-
lin exchanged
? " whispered
le solution is
Pavlovna ex-
matical prob-
on and earth,
veen Nekhlu-
ded, to show
rectly.
doff said,
ary Pavlovna
nng a look of
) his convey-
3 of the cart,
e rough road.
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He passed the gang, which, with its grey cloaks and sheep-
skin coats, chains and manacles, stretched over three-quar-
ters of a mile of the road. On the opposite side of the road
Nekhludoff noticed Katusha's blue shawl, Vera Doukhova's
black coat, and Simonson's crochet cap, white worsted stock-
ings, with bands, like those of sandals, tied round him.
Simonson was walking with the woman and carrying on a
heated discussion.
When they saw Nekhludoff they bowed to him, and
Simonson raised his hat in a solemn manner. Nekhludoff,
having nothing to say, did not stop, and was soon ahead of
the carts. Having got again on to a smoother part of the
road, they drove still more quickly, but they had continually
to turn aside to let pass long rows of carts that were moving
along the road in both directions.
The road, which was cut up by deep rutr, lay through a
thick pine forest, mingled with birch trees and larches, bright
with yellow leaves they had not yet shed. By the time Nekh-
ludoff had passed about half the gang he reached the end of
the forest. Fields now lay stretched along both sides of the
road, and the crosses and cupolas of a monastery appeared
in the distance. The clouds had dispersed, and it had cleared
up completely; the leaves, the frozen puddles and the gilt
crosses and cupolas of the monastery glittered brightly in
the sun that had risen above the forest. A little to the right
mountains began *o gleam white in the blue-grey distance,
and the trap entered a large village. The village street was
full of people, both Russians and other nationalities, wearing
peculiar caps and cloaks. Tipsy men and women crowded
and chattered round booths, traktirs, public houses and carts.
The vicinity of a town was noticeable. Giving a pull and a
lash of the whip to the horse on his right, the driver sat down
sideways on the right edge of the seat, so that the reins hung
over that side, and with evident desire of showing off, he
drove quickly down to the river, which had to be crossed by a
ferry. The raft was coming towards them, and had reached
the middle of the river. About twenty carts were waiting to
cross. Nekhludoff had not long to wait. The raft, which
had been pulled far up the stream, quickly approached the
landing, carried by the swift waters. The tall, silent, broad-
shouldered, muscular ferryman, dressed in sheepskins, threw
the ropes and moored the raft with practised hand, landed
the carts that were on it, and put those that were waiting on
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the bank on board. The whole raft was filled with vehicles
and horses shutflmg at the sight of the water. The broad
swift nver splashed against the sides of the ferryboats iX'-
ening their moorings. .yuudi;,, tignt
When the raft was full,. and Nekhludoflf's cart, with the
horses taken out of it, stood closely surrounded by oth^r carts
on the side of the raft, the ferryman barred the entrance
and, paying no heed to the prayers of those who Sid not
found room in the raft, unfastened the ropes and set of?
f., "^f.i^^f^ °" ^^^ '■^^^' o"e could hear nothing but the
fooTofoot' ''""""' ""'''' '"' '''' '°^^^^ chan#„g from'
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;d with vehicles
er. The broad,
;rryboats, tight-
i cart, with the
d by other carts
d the entrance,
e who had not
nd set off.
lothing but the
changing from
CHAPTER XXI.
"just a worthless tramp."
Nekhludoff stood on the edge of the raft looking at the
On. thT'-f J^? ?L"'"''^ ^"P^ "^^"S "P •" l^i« mind.
One, that of Kryltzoflf, unprepared for death and dying
made a heavy, sorrowful impression on him. The other
that of Katusha full of energy, having gained the love of
such a man as Simonson, and found a true and solid path
towards righteousness, should have been pleasant, yet it also
created a heavy impression on NekhludofT's mind, and he
could not conquer this impression.
The vibrating sounds of a big brass bell reached them
ITfl^' \r'- Nekhludoflf's driver, who stood by his sid^
and the other men on the raft raised their caps and crossed
themselves, all except a short, dishevelled old man, who
stood close to the railway and whom Nekhludoff had not
noticed be ore. He did not cross himself, but raised his
head and looked at Nekhludoff. This old man wore a
patched coat, cloth trousers and worn and patched shoes,
le had a small wallet on his back, and a high fur cap with
the fur much rubbed on his head
r1r,3''^\'^°"'* you pray old chap?" asked Nekhludoff 's
unbaptfzed ? ''"^ straightened his cap. " Are you
" Who's one to pray to? " asked the old man ciuicklv, in
a determmatelv aggressive tone
tic'alh° '^^°"'* '^° ^°'^' °^ course," said the driver sarcas-
" And you just show me where he is, that god " There
was something so serious and firm in the expression of the
old man. that the driver felt that he had to do with a
strong-niindefi man, and was a bit abashed. And trvine
not to show this, not to be silenced, and not to l^e put to
shame before the crowd that was observing them he
answered quickly. ^
^^ Where? Ill heaven, of course."
" And have you been up there ? "
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mu'/p'^'to God " "" °' "°'' '^^'^ ""^ l^""- *a. you
per/ YolTrarto": hole"" ?Jd''Z S"' " "t ^O"'^'''-
s™- life ^^Si^'^-. ^-r/eiife^.-
Some one laughed.
tew'in,^? ''"" '"'"*'^' yourself? " Nekhludoff asked en-
mSe"' <^°"™'-=='-°" "'"■' him. " You might make a
tos's orhllK" '"'•" "'^ °" '"^" -■'' ''^"<='<"y. with a
asked'''" ""^^ '" "■"■" '"""^"' fai*s?" Nekhlidoff
de Jf?v °!^. ?"^" ^^Po^e loudly and often looked round evi-
dently wishing that as many as possible should hear him
^^ And have you long held this faith ? " ^•
persecute me" ' *'""'■ '^^'' '' '^' twenty-third year that they
" Persecute you ? How > "
seize^m?'L^/'r^'''''^ ^u''f' 'V'^^y P^'-^^^^"*^ "le. They
seize me and take me before the courts and Hpf^r. "S
priests, the Scribes and the Pharisees. Once they put nie imo
■ ^
nows that you
The only be-
ler he hath de-
rapid manner,
hole worship-
*, shoving the
•aight the har-
dle-aged man,
raft.
e no one — no
and decidedly
loff asked, en-
might make a
idedly, with a
' Nekhludoff
lo not believe
also believed
lyself so that
believers and
d Popovitzy,
and Skoptzy
I creep about
the spirit is
if every one
; be himself,
round, evi-
hear him.
sar that they
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a madhouse; but they can do nothing because I am free.
1 hey say 'What is your name?' thinking 1 shall name
myself But I do not give myself a name. I have given up
everything : I have no name, no place, no country, nor any-
thing. I am just myself. ' What is your name? ' ' Man '
How old are you? ' I say, ' I do not count my years and
cannot count them, because I always was, I always shall
r^'' , ^^^^^'"^ y°"'' parents? ' ' I have no parents except
God and Mother Earth. God is my father.' 'And the
Kfru ^° yo" recognise the Tsar?' they say. I say,
' Why not? He is his own Tsar, and I am my own Tsar.'
^ Where s the good of talking to him/ they say, and I say,
. 1 do not ask you to talk to me.' And so they begin torment-
i^ wu^ where are you going now? " asked Nekhludoff.
Where God will lead me. I work when I can find work,
and when I can't I beg." The old man noticed that the raft
was approaching the bank and stopped, looking round at
the bystanders with a look of triumph
Nekhludoff got out his purse and offered some money to
the old man, but he refused, saying :
"' Jx?n"°,* ^*^^^P^ *^'^ ^°^^ of thing— bread I do accept."
^^ Well, then, excuse me."
.A \^^^-^^ ^^ nothing to excuse, you have not offended me.
And it IS not possible to offend me." And the old man put
the wallet he had taken off again on his back. Meanwhile
the post-cart had been landed and the horses harnessed
1 wonder you should care to talk to him, sir," said the
driver, when Nekhludoff, having tipped the bowing ferrv-
man, got mto the cart again. " He is just a worthless
tramp.
me. They
befnr- the
put me into
i
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CHAPTER XXir.
NEKHLUDOFF SEES THE GENERAL.
tuS^ &ai^ ^'^ ^°P «^ '^^ h.n bank .he driver
;; Which hotel am I to drive to?"
Which 7s the best?"
offS.::*i;S'' ''''^"" "'^" '"^ Siberian, bu. Duke-
'Drive to whichever • »m III >^ "
of houses vvithat?ic ^H.dol ' S''^' '^^"'^x '^^^^ ^^"^^ "^in^
of cathedral, the sinle HnT ^ f ^ ^'*"-" 5°°^'' ^^^ ^^'"e kind
cipal street/and evJn t 'e saL'e^'^nd'"^^ ''r' '" '^' P""'
the houses were almost 111 f^u °^ Pohcemen. Only
were not paved In one of VL r/?""^""' ^"^ '^^ ^t'-eets
ped at the door ot an hote but .h "'"'"'' '^' ^"^^'^ ^^op-
had, so he drove o^no^her A ^T "^I'r "° ^°°"^ to be
twon.,nths, found himsef on- '" Nekhludoff, after
as he h.d been accustomed to ..^f'" '" surroundings such
liness went. ThouXhTroom h. ^^^o'^^^'-t and clean-
enough, yei NekhfSdoff fdtgreaX reHeT.i°7? ^^P'^
after two months of nn^f rltll ^^^^^^ T^^eved to be there
tions. His first bur. "c ' f ""/'^ '""' ^"^ halting sta-
which he had n verbeeTabT'to J?h" ^'"tf °^ ^^^ ''--
visiting a halting statfon Wi!? ^u ^^T"^^^^ "^^ ^^ after
to the RussLn fatlf X ^^ch h' '^^^ ""P^^'<ed he went
seen in a town vTonllZu} u^ ""^^^ ^'"^^^'^ fit to be
rather creasld 'along "he ams 1 trC ''""^'" '^^' ^^^ ^^t
and drove to the G? ven^'Tf 'tlfe dSrkt°' V\"e ^".7^^^^'
called an u^^o^/c/i/y^, whose well-fed kS^ Zr ^""^f^^^P^^
mg trap soon brought Nekhl^dnff f!;/v? t "'^^^ ^"^ ^'^''^t-
building, in front of wh.VhJ;^? ° ^'^^ arge porch of a big
The hoL haS a garden in f on An J^ l"^" poHceman^
naked branches of asp", and hir^h .^* *^' u^"^^ ^"^^"^ the
and dark green pin^s^'and^l'^-^t^Sertr^ar". ^'^^'
' general was not we!I
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k ihe driver
but Duke-
and drove
; same kind
e same kind
in the prin-
nen. Only
the streets
Jriver stop-
room to be
idoff, after
idings such
and clean-
was simple
3 be there
lalting sta-
3f the lice
id of after
■d he went
f fit to be
at had got
I overcoat,
>tel-keeper
nd vibrat-
h of a big
>oIiceman.
mong the
rew thick
not we!'
and did not receive ; but Nekhludoff asked the footman to
haml m his card all the same, and the footman came back
wuh a favourable reply.
" You are asked to come in."
Ihe hali, the footman, the orderly, the staircase, the danc-
mg roon., with its well-polished floor, were very much the
Si?w"' i^\u^^'^r$'''^' ?"^>^ "'^'■^ imposing and rather
•Tu ^^^'^"^"floff was shown into the cabinet
Ihe General, a bloated, potato-nosed man, with a san-
guine dir,position, large bumps on his forehead, bald head
art! paits under his eyes, sat wrapped in a Tartar silk dress-
Jl^lfr''" smoking a cigarette and sipping his tea out of a
tumbler m a silver holder.
''How do you do, sir? Excuse my dressing-gown; it is
better so than if I had not received you at all," he said, pull-
ing up his dressing-gown over his fat neck with its deep
uru^l *^u "^P^u " ^ ^"^ "°^ ^"'t^ we"' and do not go out
What has brought you to our remote region > "
I am accompanying a gang of prisoners, among whom
there is a person closely connected with me." said Nekhlu-
i^^'un TZ ^ ^^^^ """""^ ^° see your Excellency partly
in behalf of this person, and partly about another business "
Ihe General took a whiff and a sip of tea, put his cigarette
i^VM-^i^'^v'^^ ?'^P^"' w^*^ ^'^ "arrow eyes fixed on
Nekhludoff, listening seriously. He only interrupted him
once to offer him a cigarette.
The General belonged to the learned type of military men
who believed that liberal and humane views can be recon"
ciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and
intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a recon-
ciliation ; so as not to feel the inner discord in which he
was living, he gave himself up more and more to the habit
ot drinking, which is so widely spread among military men
and was now suffering from what doctors term alcoholism'
He was imbued with alcohol, and if he drank any kind of
liquor It made him tipsy. Yet strong drink was an absolute
necessity to him, he could not live without it, so he was quite
drunk every evening; but had grown so used to this Itate
that he did not reel nor talk any special nonsense. And if
he did talk nonsense, it was accepted as words of wisdom
because_of the important and high position which he occu-
pied. Only in the morning, just at the time Nekhludoff
came to see him, he was like a reasonable being, could under-
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Stand what was said to him, and fulfil more or less anMv a
proverb he was fond of repeating- ''H^. /Ty,. / ? /^
wise so he's pleasant in tuTzTays^'' ' ''^'^' ^"^ ^''
The higher authorities knew he was a drunkard but h^
sZpTd aVthe^? *h'" '"T ''I'' ^^°"^^ his Sio'n
HeTa bo d ZrJ T- ^"-""^^""ess had got hold of him.
tact Tven wh^n Hn° ' t 'T°''"f appearance, and showed
lact even when tipsy; therefore, he was appointed and was
Tl^Vt^'"'.!'' P"'^^'^ ^"^ responsible an office
wa™.^f that'r ^'^^ ^'^ P^'^°" ^^ -- -'^rested in
tTat a Sinn h.H h ^^\ ^^"t,^"S!:d' though innocent, and
'' Yes we^P^' i^'Ti,'"?.^ *° ^^? ^"^P^'-o^ »" her behalf.
^^ 1 es, well .r' said the General.
ing her^?ate^shS'^h:" "^TP^^'^ '^?' ^^^ "^^« ^^o"^^'-"-
and Vo this plaie^^^ ''"' *° '"^ "^^ ^^^e'" ^^an this month
fJ^^A ^f"e^aJ Stretched his hand with its stumpy finders
Sit n^V'^''; ??^ r^"^ ^ ^^"' «ti" looking a? NeS-
dolt and puffing at his cigarette. ^ inckiuu
allowp°H^^"''^ "^^u° ^'^ y°" *^^t this woman should be
allowed to remain here until the answer to her petition
The footman, an orderly in uniform, came in.
orderiv '' iS"Ly^''"^''"^ '' "P'" ^^'^ *^^ ^^e^e'-al to the
N^^Sdo^'^ Then, turning to
withfh'e^lm'grng"' '°"^^^"^ ^ ^'''''''' P"-"- -^o is
the iSad """'" '^'"^ *^' ^'"'''^'' ^^*^ ^ significant shake of
hpl^^ it seriously ill-dying, and he will probably be left
She is no relation of his ? "
her to remltitl^Tf "^ *° "^"^ '"" ^^ *^^^ -'" -^^^^
The General looked fixedly with twinkling eyes at his in-
tenl°H"'°''^"'^'-'^^^,'"''>^ ^^^^ ^ ^i«h to difcomfit him it
tened, smoking m silence.
nffTff ^^"^^l^^ofif had finished, the General took a book
nfi !, ^ and, wetting his finger, quickly turned over the
pages and found the statute relating to marriage
till ..«
3r less aptly a
"ipsy, but he's
nkard, but he
education had
t hold of him.
, and showed
ited, and was
office.
interested in
innocent, and
her behalf.
ews concern-
n this month
Jmpy fingers
? at Nekhlu-
an should be
her petition
jneral to the
turning to
Dner who is
int shake of
ably be left
)ners would
will enable
:s at his in-
fit him, lis-
x)k a book
ed over the
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the bJdf^ >s she sentenced to? " he asked, looking up from
]|She? To hard labour."
"Well, then, the position of one sentenced to that cannot
be bettered by marriaee."
- Yes, but "
" Excuse me. Even if a free man should marry her, she
would have to serve her term. The question in such cases
IS, whose IS the heavier punishment, hers or his? "
I* They are both sentenced to hard labour."
Very well ; so they are quits," said the General, with a
1 5?ru- , ^ ^°* ^^^* ^^ ^^^' o"^y 3S he is sick he may be
lett behind, and of course what can be done to lighten his
fate shall be done. But as for her, even if she did marrv him
she could not remain behind."
" The Generaless is having her coffee," the footman an-
nounced.
The General nodded and continued :
" However, I shall think about it. What are their names ?
rut them down here."
Nekhludoff wrote down the names.
Nekhliidoff's request to be allowed to see the dying man
the General answered by saying, " Neither can I do that.
Ut course I do not suspect you, but you take an interest in
him and m the others, and you have money, and here with
us anything can be done with money. I have been told to
put down bribery. But how can I put down bribery when
everybody takes bribes? And the lower their rank the more
ready they are to be bribed. How can one find it out across
more than three thousand miles? There any official is a
little Tsar, just as I am here," and he laughed. " You have
in all likelihood been to see the political prisoners ; you gave
money and got permission to see them," he said, with a
smile. Is It not so?"
"^ Yes, it is."
" I quite understand that you had to do it. You pity a
political prisoner and wish to see him. And the inspector
or the convoy soldier accepts, because he has a salary of
twice twenty copecks and a family, and he can't help accept-
ing it. In his place and yours I should have acted in the
sameway as you and he did. Rut in my position I do not
permit myself to swerve an inch rom the letter of the law
just because I am a man, and i.ught be influenced by pity'
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CHAPTER XXIII.
THE SENTENCE COMMUTED
Yes, I do,"
arriv^S'here^° H; uT ,'"'' ^l ^"^^'^^ ^^-^^^^er has just
and elm7n'n^ the dHso^^ '' nsportaLn
with us To^ZVLr °^ ^'^T^- ^^^"' ^'e is dining
five nnri ^, ^ /• "^ ^''" '^"'"'' ^"^1 meet him. We dine at
hve, and my wife expects punctuahtv Then I sh;,ll oil;^
you an answer what t^. .1^ ot ^ A ■^" -^ ^"^'' ^'^o give
to""',iiX ''tr"' ? the Ge„„^|_ N.^hludoff drove
and e„e'ri'tff'r.:/.!tf"f ."-J-'' '" - extremely animated
sa^b^Errfomn^f .'rvr.Z'f ^""'i ^"^"' ""'^-■^
Quite a rrnwH n JV^^ ^"^ people, of wiiom there was
good doal letters ^n fJ ^^"f'u^ ^° ^'"^- ^^^^ere was a
bSht red se^l R K T^'°P'' ^^^'^ ^ distinctly stamped
in an'n egM^slf U 'Srd'^T''^ '^^"."f' *^ '«'"• bitten
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r.rJ \ "''' •'^'■''^^ ^^'^"•"' " o"'" Jast talk has made a
profound impression on me. You were right concerning
Mas ova. I looked carefully through the cat. and see tha^
shocking mjustice has been done her. It could be remedied
only by the Committee of Petitions before which you laid it
1 managed to assist at the examii itioii of the case, and I en-
W .nn7'!S '?' '°P>^ ''l'^''' mitigation of the sentence.
Your aunt, the Countess Katerina Ivanovna, gave me the
address which I am sending this to. The original document
has been sent to the place where she was imprisoned before
her trial and will from there be probably sent at once to the
principal Government office in Siberia. I hasten to communi-
cate this glad news to you and warmly press your hand
" Yours,
Tu } . " Selenin."
The document ran thus : " His Majesty's office for the
reception of petitions, addressed to his Imperial name "-
here folbwed the date-*' by order of the chief of his Maj-
esty s office for the: reception of petitions addressed to lis
Imperial name. The meschanka Katerina Maslova is hereby
ni formed that his Imperial Majesty, with reference to her
most loyal petition, condescending to her request, deigns to
order that her sentence to hard labour should be comr^u^ted to
one of exile to the less distant districts of Siberia "
cnnM ir' r^^"J r""^ important news ; all that Nekhludoff
could have hoped for Katusha, and for himself also, had
happened. It was true that the new position she was in
brought new complications with it. While she was a con-
vict, marriage with her could only be fictitious, and would
have had no meaning except that he would have been in a
posi ion to alleviate her condition. And now there was noth'
nrL. ^\^u- ^t'l ''\'"^ together, and Nekhludoflf had not
prepared himself for that. And, besides, what of her rela-
ves"terd°.vr°Tf °;;' ^^'^' 'T '^' '"^^"^"^ ^^ ^er words
would It be wel ? He could not unravel all these questions
bter^on''' h? th"'Tf ^'f"^ ''- '' '' ^^^" ^" clear'ltself up
later on he thought; I must not think about it now but
convey the glad news to her as soon as possible and s^J he
receiv.^' thought that the copy of the document he had
received would suffice, so when he left the post-office he told
the i^z-usrcniK to drive him to the prison
Though he had received no order from the governor to visit
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Ik has made a
lit concerning
'. and sec that
<1 be renu(Ued
ch you hiid it.
:ase, and I en-
the sentence.
gave me the
inal document
risoned before
at once to the
1 to communi-
nir hand.
SelenIn."
office for the
rial name " —
f of his Maj-
Iressed to his
lova is liereby
srence to her
est, deigns to
commuted to
ria."
t Nekhludoff
elf also, had
1 she was in
e was a con-
3, and would
ve been in a
;re was noth-
idoflf had not
of her rela-
)f her words
li Simonson,
se questions,
ear itself up
: it now, but
, and set her
nent he had
office he told
499.
the prison that morning, he knew by experience that it was
easy o get from the subordinates what the higher officials
would not grant so now he meant to try and get into the
prison to bnngkatusha the joyful news, and peH.aps to get
her set free, ami at the same time to i.iquire about Kryltzoff's
general had said. The prison inspector was a tall, imposing-
ooking man, with moustaches and whiskers ti at wis ted
towards the corners of his mouth. He received Nekhh doff
lnin:';r'' '''■' ''" P^^"'^ ''''' '-^ could not gra°nt
an outsider the permission to interview the prisoners with-
ZtlTh^^r^"" r"" ^r ^^^'^.^- '^° NekhKuloff-s remark
im'Dllcr'<"S,''%'°' ^'''\ ^ ^'° "°^ ^"^^^ '^'" ^"^' his tone
impled. You city gentlemen may think to surprise and
perplex us, but we in Eastern Siberia also know what the
ZiXttZV^ '''"^ '} y°"'' The copy of a document
efferf nn .1? ^ ' Emperor's own office did not have any
la\ef mIm ^rT '"'P'''°.'" ^''^^'- H^ decidedly refused
to let Nekhludoff come inside the prison walls. He onlv
smiled contemptuously at Nekhludoff's naive conclusion, tha^
t/7/l ^" I'^i '"'"'^^^ ^°"'d ^"^^^ to set Maslova free
and declared that a direct order from his own superiors
would be needed before any one could be set at HbertT The
only things he agreed to do were to communicate to Maslova
that a mitigation had arrived for her, and to promise hat he
would not detain her an hour after the order from his chief
to ^berate her would arrive. He would also g?v^ no news
of Kryltzoff, saying he could not even tell if there was such
a prisoner; and so Nekhludoff, having accompliXd next to
nodiing got into his trap and drove back to his hotel
fhi.f'^^?^'' °^*''^ inspector was chiefly due to the fact
that an epidemic of typhus had broken out in the pn' son
owing to twice the number of persons that it was InSed
doff's^i- f '-O^Ue'Vlot'V T^^-n''?^ who d^e Nelm-
dav some 8Znf v °^ P^?Ple are dying in the prison every
c^^i, ? ^ °^ d'^^^^^ having sprung up amone them
so that as many as twenty were bSried in one dav '' ^ '
jrnor to visit
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i «■■
ih
i '
P Is
THE general's HOUSEHOLD.
In spite of his ineffectual attempt at the prison, Nekhlu-
dol7, still m the same vigorous, energetic frame of mind,
went to the Governor's office to see if the original of the
document had arrived for Maslova. It had not arrived, so
Nekhludoff went back to the hotel and wrote without delav
to Selenin and the advocate about it. When he had finished
writing he looked at his watch and saw it was time to go to
the General's dinner party.
On the way he again began wondering how Katusha
would receive the news of the mitigation of her sentence
Where she would be settled? How he should live with her^
What about Simonson ? What would his relations to her be ^
He remembered the change that had taken place in her, and
this reminded him of her past. " I must forget it for the
present, he thought, and again hastened to drive her out of
his mind. " V/hen the time comes I shall see," he said to
himself and began to think of what he ought to say to the
General.
The dinner at the General's, with the luxury habitual to
x^^i u7^^ "^J ^^^ wealthy and those of high rank, to which
JNekhludoff had been accustomed, was extremely enjoyable
after he had been so long deprived not only of luxury but
even of the most ordinary comforts. The mistress of the
house was a Petersburg grande dame of the old school, a
maid of honour at the court of Nicholas I., who spoke
i^rench quite naturally and Russian very unnaturally. She
held herself very erect and, moving her hands, she kept her
elbows close to her waist. She was quietly and somewhat
sadly considerate for her husband, and extremely kind to all
her visitors, though with a tinge of difference in her be-
haviour according to their position. She received Nekhlu-
doff as if he were one of them, and her fine, almost imper-
ceptil)le hattery made him once again aware of hi^ virtues
and gave him a feeling of satisfaction. She made him feel
that she knew of that honest though rather singular step of
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n, Nekhlu-
! of mind,
inal of the
arrived, so
hout delay
ad finished
le to go to
r Katiisha
r sentence.
: with her?
to her be ?
n her, and
it for the
her out of
he said to
say to the
labitual to
, to which
enjoyable
uxury but
ess of the
school, a
vho spoke
ally. She
e kept her
somewhat
kind to all
n her be-
1 Nekhlii-
3st imper-
lis virtues
t him feel
ar step of
his which had brought him to Siberia, and held him to be
an exceptional man. This refined flattery and the elegance
and luxury of the General's house had the effect of making
Nekhludoff succumb to the enjoyment of the handsome sur-
roundings, the delicate dishes and the ease and pleasure of
intercourse with educated people of his own class, so that the
surroundings in the midst of which he had lived for the last
months seemed a dream from which he had awakened to
reality. Besides those of the household, the General's daugh-
ter and her husband and an aide-de-camp, there were an
Englishman, a merchant interested in gold mines, and the
governor of a distant Siberian town. All these people
seemed pleasant to Nekhludoff. The Englishman, a healthy
man with a rosy complexion, who spoke very bad French,
but whose conmiand of his own language was Very good and
oratorically impressive, who had seen a great deal, was very
interesting to listen to when he spoke about America, India,
Japan and Siberia.
The yoimg merchant interested in the gold mines, the son
of a peasant, whose evening dress was made in London,
who had diamond studs to his shirt, possessed a fine library,
contributed freely to philanthropic work, and held liberal
European views, seemed pleasant to Nekhludoff as a sample
of a quite new and good type of civilised European culture,
grafted on a healthy, uncultivated peasant stem.
The governor of the distant Siberian town was that same
man who had been so much talked about in Petersburg at the
time Nekhludoff was there. He was plump, with thin, curly
hair, soft blue eyes, carefully-tended white hands, with rings
on the fingers, a pleasant smile, and very big in the lower
part of his body. The master of the house valued this gov-
ernor because of ail the officials he was the only one who
would not be bribed. The mistress of the house, who was
very fond of music and a very good pianist herself, valued
him because he was a good musician and played duets with
her.
NekhludoiT was in such good humour that even this man
was not unpleasant to him, in spite of what he knew of his
vices. The bright, energetic aide-de-camp, with his bluey
grey chin, who was continually offering his services, pleased
ISekhludoff by his good nature. But it was the charming
young couple, the General's daughter and her husband, who
pleased Nekhludoff best. The daughter was a plain-looking
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siniple-minded young woman, wholly absorbed in her two
chidren. Her husband, whom she had fallen in love
with and married after a long struggle with her parents, was
a Liberal, who had taken honours at the Moscow University,
a modest and intellectual young man in Government service^
who made up statistics and studied chiefly the foreign tribes,
which he liked and tried to save from dying out.
ff' u°^ ^'^^"^ ^^^^'^ "°^ °"^y ^^^^^ ^"^ attentive to Nekhlu-
doff, but evidently pleased to see him, as a new and interest-
ing acquaintance. The General, who came in to dinner in
uniform and with a white cross round his neck, greeted
Nekhludofif as a friend, and asked the visitors to the side
table to take a glass of vodka and something to whet their
appetites. The General asked NekhludofT what he had been
doing since he left that morning, and Nekhludoff told him
he had been to the post-ofifice and received the news of the
mitigation of that person's sentence that he had spoken of in
the morning, and again asked for a permission to visit the
prison.
The General, apparently displeased that business should
be mentioned at dinner, frowned and said nothing.
' Have a glass of vodka r he said, addressing the English-
man who had just come up to the table. The Englishman
drank a glass, and said he had been to see the cathedral and
the factory, but would like to visit the great transportation
prison. '■
"Oh, that will just fit in," said the General to NekhludofT
You will be able to go together. Give them a pass," he
added, turning to his aide-de-camp.
" Whpn would you like to go? " NekhludofT asked.
I prefer visiting the prisons in the evening," the English-
man answered. " All are indoors and there is no prepara-
tion ; you find them all as they are."
" Ah, he would like to see it in all its glory! Let him do
so. 1 have written about it and no attention has been paid to
It. Let him find out from foreign publications," the Gen-
eral said, and went up to the dinner table, where the mistress
ot the house was showing the visitors their places. Nekhlu-
doff sat between his hostess and the Englishman. In front
ot him sat the General's daughter and the ex-director of the
Vjrovernmcnt department in Petersburg. The conversation at
dinner was earned on by fits and starts ; now it was India
that the Englishman talked about, now the Tonkin expedi-
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i in her two
lien in love
parents, was
V University,
ment service,
Dreign tribes.
It.
e to Nekhlu-
and interest-
to dinner in
leck, greeted
! to the side
whet their
he had been
off told him
news of the
spoken of in
1 to visit the
iness should
the English-
Englishman
athedral and
ansportation
Nekhludoff.
a pass," he
sked.
the English-
no prepara-
Let him do
been paid to
,'■ the Gen-
the mistress
s. Nekhlu-
1. In front
ector of the
versation at
t was India
kin expedi-
tion that the General strongly disapproved of, now the
universal bribery and corruption in Siberia. All these topics
did not interest Nekhludoff much.
But after dinner, over their coffee, Nekhludoff and the
Englishman began a very interesting conversation about
Gladstone, and Nekhludoff thought he had said many clever
things which were noticed by his interlocutor. And Nekh-
ludoff felt it more and more pleasant to be sipping his coffee
seated in an easy-chair among amiable, well-bred people.
And when at the Englishman's request the hostess went up
to the piano with the ex-director of the Government depart-
ment, and they began to play in well-practised style Beet-
hoven's fifth symphony, Nekhludoff fell into a mental state
of perfect self-satisfaction to which he had long been a
stranger, as though he had only just found out what a good
fellow he was.
The grand piano was a splendid instrument, the symphony
was well performed. At least, so it seemed to Nekhludoff,
who knew and liked that symphony. Listening to the beau-
tiful andante, he felt a tickling in his nose, he was so touched
by his many virtues.
Nekhludoff thanked his hostess for the enjoyment that he
had been deprived of for so long, and was about to say good-
bye and go when the daughter of the house came up to him
with a determined look and said, with a blush, *' You asked
about my children. Would you like to see them? "
" She thinks that everybody wants to see her children,"
said her mother, smiling at her daughter's winning tactless-
ness. " The Prince is not at all interested."
" On the contrary, I am very much interested," said Nekh-
ludoff, touched by this overflowing, happy mother-love.
" Please let me see them."
" She's taking the Prince to see her babies," the General
shouted, laughing from the card-table, where he sat with his
son-in-law, the mine owner and the aide-de-camp. " Go, go,
pay your tribute."
The young woman, visibly excited by the thought that
judgment was about to be passed on her children, went
quickly towards the inner apartments, followed by Nekh-
ludoff. In the third, a lofty room, papered with white and
lit up by a shaded lamp, stood tvvo small cots, and a nurse
with a white cape on her shoulders sat between the cots. She
had a kindly, true Siberian face, with its high cheek-bones.
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The nurse rose and bowed. The mother stooped over the
tirst cot, in which a two-year-old little girl lay peacefully
sleeping with her little mouth open and her long, curly hair
tumbled over the pillow. ^' J '"^ir
" This is Katie," said the mother, straightening the white
and blue crochet coverlet, from under which a little white
foot pushed itself languidly out.
"' Lovd "°^ ^"^^"^ ■ ^^^'' °"^^ *'^° ^^^'■' °''^' >^°" ^"°^-"
" And this is Vasiuk, as ' grandpapa ' calls him. Quite a
different type. A Siberian, is he not ? "
iv.'i^. splendid boy," said Nekhludoff, as he looked at the
little fatty lying asleep on his stomach.
m"^?;'- f^i"^ *^^ i^^f^^""' ^'^^ ^ s"iile full of meaning.
Nekhludoff recalled to his mind chains, shaved heads,
hghting debauchery, the dying Kryltzoff, Katusha and the
whole of her past and he began to feel envious and to wish
tor what he saw here, which now seemed to him pure and
refined happiness.
After having repeatedly expressed his admiration of the
children, thereby at least partially satisfying their mother
vvho eagerly drank in this praise, he followed her back to the
drawing-room, where the Englishman was waiting for him
to go and visit the prison, as they had arranged Having
taken eave of their hosts, the old and the yoSng ones thf
Englishman and Nekhludoff went out into the porch of the
General s house. ^
The weather had changed. It was snowing, and the snow
fell densely in large flakes, and already coverfd the road, ilie
roof and the trees in the garden, the steps of the porch the
roof of the trap and the back of tlie horse
h..n-nt?"i^".f""''" Y^ ^ ^'^^' "^ ^''' °^^'"' and Nekhludoff.
having told the coachman to drive to the prison, called his
isvostchik and got in with the heavv sense of having to fulfil
an unpleasant duty, and followed the Englishman over the
soft snow, through which the wheels turned with difficulty
)ped over the
ly peacefully
ig, curly hair
ng the white
I little white
, you know."
im. Quite a
3oked at the
neaning.
laved heads,
sha and the
and to wish
m pure and
ation of the
leir mother,
■ back to the
ing for him
d. Having
ig ones, the
)orch of the
id the snow
lie road, the
3 porch, the
^ekhludoff,
!, called his
ing to fulfil
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CHAPTER XXV.
MASLOVA S DECISION.
The dismal prison house, with its sentinel and lamp burn-
ing under the gateway, produced an even more dismal im-
pression, with its long row of lighted windows, than it had
done in the morning, in spite of the white covering that now
lay over everything — the porch, the roof and the walls.
The imposing inspector came up to the gate and read the
pass that had been given to Nekhludoff and the Englishman
by the light of the lamp, shrugged his fine shoulders in sur-
prise, but, in obedience to the order, asked the visitors to fol-
low him in. He led them through the courtyard and then in
at a door to the right and up a staircase into the office. He
offered them a seat and asked what he could do for them,
and when he heard that Nekhludoff wouH like to see Mas-
lova at once, he sent a jailer to fetch her. Then he prepared
himself to answer the questions which the Englishman be-
gan to put to him, Nekhludoff acting as interpreter.
" How many persons is the prison built to hold ? " the
Englishman asked. " How many are confined in it ? How
many men? How many women? Children? How many
sentenced to the mines? How many exiles? How many
sick persons? "
Nekhludoff translated the Englishman's and the inspect-
or's words without paying any attention to their meaning,
and felt an awkwardness he had not in the least expected at
the thought of the impending interview. When, in the midst
of a sentence he was translating for the Englishman, he
heard the sound of approaching footsteps, and the office door
opened, and, as had happened many times before, a jailer
came in, followed by Katusha, and he saw her with a kerchief
tied round her head, and in a prison j.::l:it n heavy sensation
came over him. " I wish to live, I vanf a xamilv, children,
I want a human life." These thouj'htP ffhshed through his
mind as she entered the room with '.:;!•:' steps and blinking
her eyes.
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aoueared Lr?l .^1 "1 ^^^ '''^V'' ""''' ^^'' ^"^ '^^r face
b?en It thi .;? and unpleasant to him. It was again as it had
turned ml "j;''"" '^^ reproached him. Sh? flushed and
acket ^^£ ^': ^"S:^^« nervously twisting a corner of her
jacket. She looked up at him, then cast down her eves.
.* _^ ou know that a mitigation has come ? "
^^ Yes, the jailer told me."
" So that as soon as the original document arrives vou
may _come away and settle where you like. We shlu con-
sider? 'wT^P^f ,?^"' hurriedly. "What have I to con-
low" T ^nT ^f f "'"'■ .^'"^o"^0" goes, there I shall fol-
evls to NekhlL^^^ '' excitement she was in she raised her
eyes to Nekhludoff s and pronounced these words auicklv
'"'Indeed r' '' '^' ''"^ ^''^^''"^ ^^'' '^' had to sa^
wii'h^hfm ^""'5" ^;^^"°^^tch, you see he wishes me to live
rected LTri;;7 .f^^/^^.^^topped, quite frightened, and cor-
can I de Jr. ? T ^\T^,^' "^^ *? be near him. What more
is"here for Le^'" "P°" '' ^' happiness. What else
"One of two things," thought he. "Either she loves
Simonson and does not in the least require the sacrificri
nnagmed was bringing her, or she still loves me and re
fuses me for my own sake, and is burning her ships bv
unitmg her fate with Simonson." And NekhludT feU
ashamed and knew that he was blushing
^^ And you yourself, do you love him? " he asked
Loymg or not loving, what does it matter? I have given
cTptlonar^an^"' *'^" ^'''''^'' ^""--" ^« ^^^^ a^ Tx-
rnan^'df thrk!!:3'''''°^ '^^^"- " ^^ '« ^ ^P'-^^^
But she again interrupted him, as if afraid that he might
ay too much or that she should not say all. " No, Dmftr
Ivanoyitch you must forgive me if I am not doing what yo"
au ntinl" '^%^r^'^ ?:\^^^ with those unfathomaWe
ZstTfr-^''"^- "^-'^t evidently must be so. You
m^^rtt:"^::^^^^:^^^^-^^^ a few mo-
j-rr ,, Vt " '• -ssfr in^^ugHi. 5u HOW and lelt verv
d fferently He was not only ashamed, but felt sorry to lose
all he was losmg with her. " I did not expect this," he said
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and her face
a^ain as it had
e flushed and
rorner of her
er eves.
arrives you
fe shall Con-
ine I to con-
J I shall fol-
ic raised her
3rds quickly
ad to say.
s me to live
ed, and cor-
What more
What else
she loves
; sacrifice I
me and re-
r ships by
iludoff felt
ed.
have given
uite an cx-
a splendid
It he might
No, Dmitri
P" what you
"athomal)le,
le so. You
a few mo-
d felt very
irry to lose
" he said.
" Why should you live here and suffer? You have suf-
fered enough."
" I have not suffered. It was good for me, and I should
like to go on serving you if I could."
" We do not want anything," she said, and looked at him.
" You have done so much for me as it is. If it had not been
for you " She wished to say more, but her
voice
trembled,
" You certainly have no reason to thank me," Nekhludoff
said.
" Where is the use of our reckoning? God will make up
our accounts," she said, and her^ black eyes began to glisten
with the tears that filled them.
" What a good woman you are," he said.
" I good? " she said through her tears, and a pathetic smile
lit up her face.
'■ Are you ready ? " the Englishman asked.
" Directly," replied Nekhludoff, and asked her about
Kryltzoft'.
She got over her emotion and quietly told him all she
knew. Kryltzoff was very weak and had been sent into the
infirmary. Mary Pavlovna was very anxious, and had asked
to be allowed to go to the infirmary as a nurse, but could
not get the permission.
" Am I to go ? " she asked, noticing that the Englishman
was waiting.
" I will not say good-bye ; I shall see you again," said
Nekhludoff, holding out his hand.
" Forgive me," she said so low that he could hardly hear
her. Their eyes met, and Nekhludoff knew by the strange
look of her squinting eyes and the pathetic smile with which
she said not " Good-bye " but " Forgive me," that of the two
reasons that might have led to her resolution, the second was
the real one. She loved him, and thought that by uniting
herself to him she would be spoiling his life. By going
with Simonson she thought she would be setting Nekhludoff
free, and felt glad that she had done what she meant to do,
and yet she suffered at parting from him.
She pressed his hand, turned quickly and left the room.
Nekhludoff was ready to go, but saw that the Englishman
was noting something down, and did not disturb him,
but sat down on a wooden seat by the wall, and suddenly a
feeling of terrible weariness came over him. It was not a
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excitement but he felt terribly tired of living. He leaned
agamst the back of the bench, shut his eyes and in a moment
fell into a deep, heavy sleep. i^meni
ins^eytoi;;:^ '"" ''' '' '°°' ^°""' '''' ^^"^ --? " th-
Nekhludoflf looked up and was surprised to find himself
where he was. The Englishman had finished his notes and
expressed a wish to see the cells
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. He leaned
in a moment
s now ? " the
find himself
lis notes and
lim.
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THE ENGLISH VISITOR.
When they had passed the anteroom and the sickening,
stmkmg corridor, the Englishman and Nekhludoff, accom-
panied by the inspector, entered the first cell, where those
sentenced to hard labour were confined. The beds took up
the middle of the cell and the prisoners were all in bed.
There were about 70 of them. When the visitors entered
all the prisoners jumped up and stood beside the beds, ex-
cepting two, a young man who was in a state of high fever,
and an old man who did nothing but groan.
The Englishman asked if the young man had long been ill.
The inspector said that he was taken ill in the morning, but
that the old man had long been suffering with pains in the
stomach, but could not be removed, as the infirmary had been
overfilled for a long time. The Englishman shook his head
disapprovingly, said he would like to say a few words to
these people, asking Nekhludoff to interpret. It turned out
that besides studying the places of exile and the prisons of
Siberia, the Englishman had another object in view, that of
preaching salvation through faith and by the redemption.
" Tell them," he said, " that Christ died for them. If they
believe in this they shall be saved." While he spoke, all the
prisoners stood silent with their arms at their sides. " This
book, tell them," he continued, "says all about it. Can any
of them read ?"
There were more than 20 who could.
The Englishman took several bound Testaments out of a
hang-bag, and many strong hands with their hard, black
nails stretched out from beneath the coarse shirt-sleeves
towards him. He gave awav two Testaments in this cell.
The same thing happened in the second cell. There was
the same foul air, the same icon hanging between the win-
dows, the same tub to the left of the door, and they were all
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lying side by side close to one anotlitr. and jumped up in the
same manner and stood stretched full length with thdr arms
by their sides, all buf three, two of whom sat up and one re-
mained lying, and did not even look at the new-comers ; these
three were also ill. The Englishman made the same speech
and again ^-ave away t\\ o books.
In the tliird room four were ill. When the Englishman
asked why the sick were not put all together into one cell, the
inspector said that they did not wish it themselves, that their
diseases were not infectious, and that the medical assistant
watched them and attended to them.
" He has not set foot here for a fortnight," muttered a
voice.
The inspector did not say anything and led the way to the
next cell. Again the door was unlocked, and all got up and
stood SI ent. Again the Englishman gave away Testaments.
It was the same in the fifth and sixth cells, in those to the
right and those to the left.
From those sentenced to hard labour thev went on to the
exiles.
From the exiles to those evicted by the Commune and those
who followed of their own free will.
, Everywhere men, cold, himgry, idle, infected, degraded,
imprisoned, were shown off like wild beasts.
The Englishman, havi-i- g-iyen away the"appointed num-
ber of Testaments, stop, ed j^dng any more, and made no
speeches. The oppressing ju-ht, and especially the stifling
atmosphere, quelled even his energy, and he went from cell
to eel , saying nothing but " All right " to the inspector's
''Tt^ , u, ? , ^* ^^^^ prisoners there were in each cell.
JNekhludoff followed as in a dream, unable either to refuse
to go on or to go away, and with the same feelings of weari-
ness and hopelessness. ^
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aped up in the
ith their arms
ip and one re-
coniers ; these
2 same speech
2 Englishman
o one cell, the
ves, that their
lical assistant
" muttered a
^e way to the
11 got up and
' Testaments.
those to the
ent on to the
me and those
d, degraded,
)ointed num-
ind made no
' the stifling
mt from cell
2 inspector's
cell.
ler to refuse
gs of weari-
CHAPTER XXVII.
KRYLTZOFF AT REST.
In one of the exiles' cells Nekhludoff, to his surprise, rec-
'gmsed the strange old man he had seen crossing the ferry
that morning. This old man was sitting on the floor by the
beds, barefooted, with only a dirty cinder-coloured shirt on,
torn on one shoulder, and similar trousers. He looked
severely and enquiringly at th( new-comers. His emaciated
body, visible through the holes of his shirt, looked miserably
weak, but in his face was even more concentrated seriousness
and animation than when Nekhludoflf saw him crossing the
ferry. As in all the other cells, so here also the prisoners
jumped up and stood erect when the official entered, but the
old man remained sitting. His eyes glittered and his brows
frowned with wrath.
"Get up," the inspector called out to him.
The old man did not rise and only smiled contemptuously.
Thy servants are standing before thee. I am not thy ser-
vant. Thou bearest the seal " The old man pointed to
the inspector's forehead.
" Wha-a-t? " said the inspector threateningly, and made a
step towards him.
" I know this man," Nekhludoflf hastened to say ; " what is
he imprisoned for ? "
" The police have sent him here because he has no pass-
port. We ask them not to send such, but they will do it,"
said the inspector, casting an angry side look at the old man.
And so It seems thou, too, art one of Antichrist's
army ? the old man said to Nekhludoflf.
"^ No, I am a visitor," said Nekhludoflf.
"What, hast thou come to see how Antichrist tortures
men ? There, look, he has locked them up in a cage, a whole
army of^them. ^Men should eat bread in the sweat of their
brow. And he has locked them up with no work to do, and
feeds them like swine, so that they should turn into beasts."
What is he saying? " asked the Englishman.
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Xekhludoff told him the old man was blaming the in-
spector for keeping men imprisoned.
" Ask him how he thinks one should treat those who do
not keep to the laws," said the Englishman.
Nekhludoff translated the question. The old man laughed
m a strange manner, showing his teeth.
" The laws ? " he repeated with contempt. " He first
robbed everybody, took all the earth, all the rights away from
men, killed all those who were against him, and then wrote
laws, forbidding robbery and murder. He should have writ-
ten these laws before."
Nekhludoff translated. The Englishman smiled. "Well,
anyhow, ask him how one should treat thieves and mur-
derers at present ? "
Nekhludoff again translated his question.
'' Tell him he should take the seal of Antichrist off him-
self," the old man said, frowning severely ; " then there will
be no thieves and murderers. Tell him so."
" He is crazy," said the Englishman, when Nekhludoff had
translated the old man's words, and. shrugging his
shoulders, he left the cell.
" Do thy business and leave them alone. Every one for
himself. God knows whom to execute, whom to forgive,
and we do not know," said the old man. " Every man be hi.s
own chief, then the chiefs will not be wanted. Go. go ! " he
added, angrily frowning and looking with glittering eyes
at Nekhludoff, who lingered in the cell. " Hast thou not
looked on long enough how the servants of Antichrist feed
lice on men ? Go, go ! "
_ When Nekhludoff went out he saw the Englishman stand-
mg_ by the open door of an empty cell with the mspector.
asknig what the cell was for. The inspector explained that
It was the mortuary.
" Oh." said the Englishman when Nekhludoff had trans-
lated, and expressed the wish to go in.
The mortuary, was an ordinary coll. not very largo. A
small lamp hung en the wall and dimly lit up sacks and logs
of wood that were piled up in one corner, and lour dead
bodies lay on the bedshclves to the right. The first Ix^dy had a
coarse linen shirt and trousers on ; it was that of a tall man
with a small beard and half his head sliaved. The body was
quite rigid ; tlie bluish hands, that had evidently been folded
on the breast, had separated ; the legs were also apart and
blaming- the in-
eat those who do
1.
old man laughed
impt. " He first
rights away from
1, and then wrote
should have writ-
1 smiled. "Well,
hieves and mur-
itichrist off him-
" then there will
1 Nekhludoff had
shrugging his
Every one for
'horn to forgive,
Zvery man be his
!d. Go, go ! " he
1 glittering eyes
" Hast thou not
f Antichrist feed
iglishman stand-
th the mspector,
)r explained that
udott had trans-
very largo. A
p sack-s and logs
. and lour (k'ad
.' first body luid a
lat of a tall man
. Tlic body was
iitly l)ecn foldpfj
i also apart and
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the bare feet were sticking out. Xext to him lav a bare-
tooted old woman m a white petticoat, her head, with its thin
pla t of hair, uncovered, with a little, pinched vellow face and
a sharp nose lieyond her was another man With something
Idac on. Ihis colour reminded Nekhludoff of somethiniT
He came nearer and looked at the bodv. The small, point^i
beard st.ckmg upwards, the firm, well^shaped nose, I e 1 S
vlnte forehead, the thin, curly hair; he recognisec U e
fam.har features and could hardly believe his eves. Yeste -
day he had seen this face, angry, excited, and full of suft'er-
Yes' i!' wL T'^u '^T'' "^^^'^"J'^^S' ^"^1 terribly beautiful,
^cs, It was Kryltzoff, or at anv rate the trace that his mi-
enal exKstence had left behind. " Why had 1^ uffere''
\V by had he lived ? Does he now understand ? " Xekhlu(k,ff
thought and there seemed to be no answer, seemec to be
nothing btit death and he felt faint. Without taking leave of
the Englishman Nekhludoff asked the inspector to lead him
TrT^ '^Pr^' ^"^f^f 'V^ the absolute necessity of be g
dr^ L^ck ;f h?s^L:i. '''' '''' '''''''-' ^'- ---^' ' '
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CHAPTER XXVIH.
A XEW LIFE DAWNS FOR NKKIILUDOFF.
Nekiiluooff did not go to bed. hut went up and down his
room for a Ion- time. His business with Katusha was at an
end. lie was not wanted, and this made him sad and
ashamed His other business was not only unfinished, but
troubled urn more than ever and demanded' liis activity All
this horrible evil that he had seen and learned to know 'lately
and especially to-day in tliat awful prison, this evil. whiJh
had killed that dear Kryltzofif, ruled and was triumphant, and
he could foresee no possibility of conquering or even know-
ing,- how to conquer it. Those hundreds and thousands of de-
graded human beings locked up in the noisome prisons by in-
different generals, procurcurs, inspectors, rose up in his im-
agination ; he remembered the strange, free old man accusing
the officials and therefore considered mad. and among the
corpses rhe beautiful, waxen face of Krvltzofif. who had died
in anger. And again the question as to whether he was mad
or hose who considered they were in their right minds
while they committed all these deeds stood before him with
renewed force and demanded an answer.
Tired of i)acing up and down, tired of thinking, he sat
down on the sofa near the lamp and mechanically opened the
Testament which tlie Englishman had given him'as a remem-
brance, and which he had thrown on the table when he
emptied his pockets on coming in.
" It is said one can find an answer to everything here " he
thought, and opened the Testament at random and began
reading Matt, xviii. 1-4: •' In that hour came the disciples
unto Jesus, saying. Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of
Heaven ? And He called to Him a little child, and set him
m the midst of them, and said. \'erilv I say unto you. Except
ye turn and become as little children', ye sliall ii; nowise enter
into the Kingdom of Heaven. Wliosoever therefore shall
humble himself as this little child the same is the greatest
m the Kingdom of Heaven."
" Yes, yes, that is true," he said, remembering that lie had
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unoFF.
up and down his
atiisha was at an
2 him sad and
/ unfinished, hut
his activity. All
d to ktiow lately,
this evil, which
triumphant, and
? or even know-
thousands of de-
ne prisons hy in-
ise up in his im-
Id man accusing-
and among the
ff. who had died
her he was mad
'ir right minds
before him with
hinking, he sat
:ally opened the
lim as a remem-
table when he
'thing here," he
lot:i and began
ne the disciples
he Kingdom of
Id, and set him
ito you. Except
in nowise enter
therefore shall
is the greatest
ing that he had
known the peace and joy of life only when he had humbled
himself.
" And whosoever shall receive one such little child in My
name receiveth Mc, but whoso shall cause one of these little
ones to stumble, it is more profitable for him that a great
millstone should be hanged about his neck and that he
should be sunk in the depths of the sea." (Matt, xviii. 5, 6.)
"What is this for, 'Whosoever shall receive?' Receive
where? And what does 'in my name' mean?" he asked,
feeling that these words did not tell him anything. " And
why ' the millstone round his neck and the depilis of the sea? '
No, that is not it : it is not clear," and he remembered how
more than once in his life he had taken to reading the Gos-
pels, and how '^ant of clearness in these passages had re-
pulsed him. He went on to read the seventh, eighth, ninth,
and tenth verses ?bout the occasions of stumliling. and that
th y must come, auvi about punishment by casting men into
hell fire, and some kind of angels who see the face of the
Father in Heaven. " What a pity that this is so incoherent,"'
he thought, " yet one feels that there is something good in
it."
" For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost,"
he continued to read.
" How think ye? H any man have a lnuv!red sheep and
one of them go astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine
and go into the mountains and seek that which goeth astray?
And if so be tb.at he find it, verily 1 say unto yoit, he rejoiceth
over it more than over the ninety and nine wiiich have not
gone astray.
" Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in
Heaven that one of these little ones' should perish."
" Yes, it is not the will of the Father that tl --y should per-
ish, and here they are perishing by hundreds and thousands.
Aind there is no possibility of saving them," he thought.
" Then came Peter and said to him. How oft shall mv
brother oflfend me and I forgive him? Until seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times,
but until seventy times seven.
" Therefore is the Kingdom of Heaven likened unto a cer-
tain king which made a reckoning with his servants. And
when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him
which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he
had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be
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sold an( his wife and children, and all that he had, and pay-
ment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and woV-
f 3!l1 \'' ?-;'I"^; Lf^'' '^^^e patience with me; I will pay
thee all. And the lord of that servant, bein^ moved with
compassion, released him and forj:,^ave him the debt B
that servant went ont, and found one of his fellow-servants
which owed him a hundred pence; and he laid hold on ?,in
and took h.m by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest. So
his fellow-servant fell down and besought him. saving, Have
1. dno '2 ,'"' 'T-"" P',r" ^'" ^'^ ^^^°"^^1 pay tliat which
vyas due. So when his fellow-servantc saw what was done
, IMW '^ exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord'
sait foS/rf'- ^^-7 ^r ^""''^ ^""^^1 '^"" ""to him and
sa th to him. Thou wicked servant. I forj^ave thee all that
debt because thou besought me; shouldst not thou also have
mercy on thy fellow-servant as I had mercy on thee' "
And IS this all ? '' Nekhludoff suddenly exclaimed aloud,
and th inner voice df the whole of his being said. " Yes it is
all. And It happened to Nekhludoff. as it often happens to
s trTJ^.t^ firl'r"'^^ '^'"'T^- ^'\'- ^^'' ^'^^"^^^^ t^^^; seemed
strange at first and paradoxical or even to be onlv a joke
being confirmed more and more often bv life's experience
suddemy appeared as the simplest, truest" certainty. In this
Jhe^terriK f ^^?\ '^'^ ''"1^ f"'^^^" "^^^"^ ^^ ^^Ivation from
e terrible evil from which men were suffering was that
they should always acknowledge themselves to be sinning
againstGod.andthereforeunable to punish or correct Xrs
all thed're 7/ ,"""n '?' f ? "'"^^ ^'''''^^^ ^^^^ to him hat
all hedreadfuleyilhe had been witnessing in prisons and iails
we e tb '^"''' «<^'f-atisfaction of the perjetriiors of thJ^ev
sihL r ^:j"^fl"^"^^^^ of "If" trying to do what was impos-
sible, trying to correct evil while being evil themselves-
Jh^L'T '"''', f'V"^ ''' '^''''' other vicious men and'
bought they could do it by using mechanical means a
inidlt^: 7""^^"^"^'^ "^a'^ this was that the needs and the
cupid t> of some men induced them to take up this so-called
punishment and correction as a profession, and have them
dves become utterly corrupt, and go on unceasingly deprav-
g hose whom they torment. Now he saw clearly what all
done tn^''.^^' ^'^^' ''''} ^''^'"^ ^'■°"^' ^"^^ ^-^ ^^^t OUght tO be
done to put a stop to them. Tlu^ ^^nsw^r 1.,. .^„i.i ^.. <:.' .
was the same that Christ
gave
'eter. It was that we
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should forgive always an infinite number of times because
there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and there-
fore none can punish or correct others.
" But surely it cannot be so simple," thought Xekhludoff
and yet he saw with certainty, strange as it had seemed at
hrst, that it was not only a theoretical but also a practical
solution of the question. The usual objection, " What is one
to do with the evil doers ? Surelv not let them go unpun-
ished ? no longer confused him. This objection might have
a meaning if it were proved that punishment lessened crime
or improved the criminal, but when the contrary was proved'
and It was evident that it was not in people's po'wer to correct
each other, the only reasonable thing to do is to leave off do-
mg the things which are not onlv useless, but harmful
immoral and cruel. ' '
For many centuries people who were considered criminals
have been tortured. Well, and have thev ceased to exist'
^o; their numbers have been increased not alone bv the
criminals corrupted by punishment but also bv those lawful
criminals, the judges, prociircurs, magistrates and jailers
who judge and punish men. Nekhludoff now understoo(i
that society and order iu general exists not because of these
lawful criminals who judge and punish others, but because in
spite of men being thus depraved, thev still pitv and love one
another. '
In hopes of finding a confirmation of this thought in the
Cjospel .Nekhludoff began reading it from the oeginning
When he had read the Sermon on the Mount, which had
always touched him, he saw in it for the first time to-dav not
beautiful abstract thoughts, setting forth for the most' part
exaggerated and impossible demands, but simple, clear, prac-
tical laws. If these laws were carried out in practice (and
this was quite possible) thev would establish perfectlv new
ami surprising conditions of social life, in which the violence
that filled .\ekhludoff with such indignation would cease of
Itself. Xot only this, but the greatest blessing that is obtain-
able to men, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth would be
established. There were five of these laws.
The first (Matt. v. 21-26), that man should not onlv do no
murder, but not even be angrv with his brother, should not
consider any one worthless : " Raca," and if he lias quarrelled
with any one he should make it up with him before bringing
hisgift to God— /.r.. before praving.
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The second (Matt. v. 27-32), that man should not only not
commit adultery but should not even seek for enjoyment in
a women s beauty, and if he has once come together with
a woman he should never be faithless to her
The third (Matt. s3-37)> that man should"never bind him-
seli by oath.
The fourth (Matt. 38-42), that man should not onlv not
demand an eye for an eye, but when struck on one cheek
should hold out th.> other, should forgive an offence and bear
iiini"" '' ^^^^^^ '"^^"^^ ^'^^ ^'^'"^'^^ "^^^""^ demand of
The fifth (Matt. 43-48), that man should not only not hate
['f^enemy and not fight him, but love him, help liim, serve
Nekhludoff sat staring at the lamp and his heart stood
still Recalling the monstrous confusion of the life we lead
he distinctly saw what that life could be if men were brought
y^u 2ir ,7-^ '^'^'■"^^'' ^"'' '■^P*"'^ ^"^'1 as he had long not
felt filled his soul, just as if after long days of weariness and
suffering he had suddenly found ease and freedom
He did not sleep all night, and aj; it happens to many and
many a man who reads the Gospels he understood for the
first time the full meaning of the words read so often before
but passed by unnoticed. He imbibed all these necessary, im-
portant and joyful revelations as a sponge imbibes water
And all l-,e read seemed so familiar and seemed to confirm'
to form into a conception, what he had known long ago, but
had never reah.ed and never quite believed. Now he realised
and believed it, and not only realised and believed that if
men wou d obey these laws they would obtain the highest
blessing they can attain to, he also realised and believed that
he only duty of every man is to fulfil these laws ; that in this
lies the only reasonable meaning of life, that every stepping
aside from these laws is a mistake which is immediately fol-
owed by retribution. This flowed from the whole of the
teaching, and was most strongly and clearlv illustrated in the
parable of the vineyard.
The husbandman imagined that the vinevard in which thev
were sent to work for their master was their own, that all
hat ^vas in was made for them, and that their business was
lnr"^°^ul\ '" \'"' vineyard, forgetting the Master and
Killing all those who reminded them of his existence " Are
we do not doing the same," Nekhludoff thought, " when we
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loulcl not only not
for enjoyment in
ne together witli
r.
I never bind hini-
uld not only not
ck on one cheek-
offence and bear
thers demand of
not only not hate
help him, serve
his heart stood
the life we lead,
en were brought
he had long not
)f weariness and
'eedoni.
MIS to many and
lerstood for the
'. so often before
!e necessary, im-
imbibes water,
med to confirm,
'n long ago, but
Now he realised
believed that if
ain the highest
rid believed that
iws ; that in this
every stepping
mmediately fol-
e whole of the
llustrated in the
d in which thev
T own, that all
ir business was
le Master and
:istence. " Are
a^ht, " when we
imagine ourselves to be masters of our lives, and that life is
given us for enjoyment? This evidently is an incongruity.
We were sent here by some one's will and for some reason.
And we have concluded that we live only for our own joy,
and of course we feel unhappy as labourers do wl;en not ful-
filling their Master's orders. The Master's will is expressed
in these commandments. If men will only fulfil these laws,
the Kingdom of Heaven will be establislied on earth, an(l
men will receive the greatest good that they can attain to.
Seek ye first the Kingdom and Mis righteousness, and
all these things shall be added unto you.'
" And so here it is. the business of my life. Scarcely have
I finished one and another has commenced." .And a perfectly
new life dawned that night for Xekhludoff, not because he
had entered into new conditions of life, but because every-
thing he did after that night had a new and quite dift'erent
significance than uefore. How this new period of his life
will end time alone will prove.