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without ornaments, knitting a stocking in a garret with
a poor gray-haired lady, who knows the addresses of all
the exiled, and takes care of money sent to them. She
writes a novel for a prominent French periodical, about
interesting countesses from Russian high life, who fall
and rise again, and she writes pamphlets at one kopek
for the collection of popular writings in Moscow. She
stands on almost confidential footing with several young
men of the radical wing of the liberal party; but on still
more confidential footing with the prefect of police of a
great city, through whom she can and does obtain
pardons in large numbers.
This combination ought not to exist outside of Russia.
Nicholas Y., a very well educated young man, had
revolutionary tendencies in the sixties. A young girl,
very handsome and enthusiastic, fled out of the country
with him. She was then a Nihilist, had taken part in
commotions of the students, accompanied him from
place to place — “civilly married” to him, as she called
it, which means in Russia not married at all. They went
to London. When they returned, in 1878, both were
changed. He, a capitalist, re-actionist, working to get
exorbitant railroad grants in Bulgaria. She, exclusive,
formal, an Anglomaniac, correct and strikingly dressed,
with several diamond ornaments on a dress of black
velvet. It would not have been believed that they had
ever led a life of independent and rebellious ideas and
emotions. On his death some years after, it is said that
she found among his papers several which placed his
character in a light of which she had never dreamed,
and which was unfavorable to her. Then she had
another transformation, sought the most extreme liberal
circles, and has now wholly devoted herself to the
literature and politics of the progressives, declares that she is
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