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the name of the Trial of 193 report that all the women
who were implicated in it looked like pale nuns, thin,
very serious, care-worn; only one of them was at all
pretty.
The construction which obtains in the Russian
intelligentia of the freedom which can be found in the
intercourse between men and women is directly the opposite
of the French and Polish. Nowhere is the relation
between the two sexes judged with more liberality, and
in the cases where nature has broken over the boundaries
of law with greater toleration. No one in the more
cultivated circles of Russia finds it strange if a man and a
woman seek one another’s company by themselves. No
one on that account immediately believes that there is
any bond of love between them; least of all, are the sexes
regarded here (as in France) as on every opportunity
attracted to each other from brutish impulses. The
Russian mother is generally not afraid to leave her
daughter alone with a young man. Perhaps the indifference
for qu’en dira-t-on is nowhere greater than in good
society here.
When Bourbaki’s army, in 1870, was forced to cross the
boundaries into Switzerland, and the soldiers were obliged,
after forced marches, to pass the night in the open streets,
in a pouring rain, no house, where there were only women,
would open its doors to them. Only two young Russian
women, who were studying in Switzerland, gave up to
some soldiers the only room they had, and passed the
whole night in their company rather than let them sleep
in the street, entirely unconcerned what stupid and
cruel popular judgment would be given to this step.
Also nothing is more common than the bond of
friendship between young students of both sexes, where
common interests, common ideals and plans for the future,
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