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use. The young girl found a comrade of the same views
of life as herself, who consented to marry her pro forma,
but who neither had nor claimed any control over her,
and by whose aid she escaped from the surveillance of
her family. Sometimes it happens that the two (as in
Mrs. Gyllembourg’s “Light Nights”), after having
become better acquainted, actually marry; in other cases
the man is said to have abused the rights formally
conferred upon him and a separation is the result. Generally
the newly married couple have separated from each
other immediately after the wedding, each being free
and independent. As is well known in “Virgin Soil,”
Turgenief has described a kindred case, the relation
of brother and sister in the case of Nezhdanof and
Marianne, after he carried away the young girl.
However much these young women feel themselves
drawn towards the common people, it very seldom
happens that they fall in love or marry out of their own
rank; and, if it does happen, it usually brings its own
punishment. The following is an instance from my
own circle of acquaintance: A young girl loved a man of
her own, the higher classes. They were both exiled by
the administrative process, but were sent to the opposite
ends of Siberia and could never learn the least thing
about each other. In the country town where the young
girl was, after the lapse of a few years, she became
acquainted with a young workman exiled for the same
political reasons she was. She met him daily. He fell
passionately in love with her; they had a child. Other
exiles, on the way home, came to the town. Among
them was a young man of the same class in society as
the young girl, who knew something about her lover.
She was never wearied of asking him questions, and sat
and talked with him through the whole night. At
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