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A BIOGRAPHY 187
time. General Krukovsky was acquainted with Thiers;
he therefore turned to him to procure a pardon for his
future son-in-law. Thiers answered that no one could
obtain this favor; but one day, in course of
conversation, he mentioned, as if accidentally, that the band of
prisoners among whom was Monsieur J-would be
moved the following day to another prison. They
were to pass by a building in which there was an
exhibition, and just at an hour when there would be a
good many people about. Aniuta went to the spot
and mixed with the crowd. The instant the prisoners
appeared she slipped unnoticed among the soldiers who
surrounded them, and, catching Monsieur J-by the
arm, disappeared with him through the crowd into the
exhibition. From there they escaped by one of the
other doors, and reached the railway-station in safety.
This tale sounds wild and improbable, but I have
only been able to write it down as I, and many of
Sonya’s friends, remember it. When people we love
are dead, how bitterly we regret that we have not
stored up in memory their least word, noted down all
the interesting things they have told us! In the
present case I have all the greater cause for regret because
Sönya often said to me that I must write her biography
when she was dead. But who thinks at the moment of
confidential talk that the day may come all too quickly
when one will stand alone, with merely the memory
of the living bond which united him to the departed ?
WI 10 is not inclined to hope that the morrow will bring
richer opportunities for supplying the gaps which so
often occur in rapid conversation, when thoughts run
on from point to point?
In 1874 Sönya received a doctor’s degree from the
University of Göttingen on account of three treatises
which she had written under the guidance of Weier-
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