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long time occupies it and passes over into love. They
are both in love for one short moment. He longs for
and worships her, the day of his starting and arrival is
already fixed; — then the correspondence is broken off,
he allows himself to be carried away by a ballet girl,
over whose vulgar graces he forgets everything, and she
sinks anew, but this time more deeply wounded, back to
her dreadful solitary life.
The highly elaborated novel “An Unfortunate Woman”
treats of the life of another young girl, whose
misfortune is equally quiet and uneventful. Her earliest
remembrance is that her mother, a Jewess, the daughter
of a foreign painter, and she herself sat daily at the
table of the landed proprietor Kaltovskoi. Kaltovskoi
is a grand old bugbear, who smelt horribly of ambergris,
continually took snuff out of a gold snuff-box, and
inspires the child with no other feeling than fear, even
when he holds qut his hard, dry hand, with lace cuffs,
for her to kiss. At the same time that the mother is
made to marry the disgusting steward Ratch, the child
learns that the landed proprietor is her father. The
father never speaks a loving word to her, and not even
once a kindly one; he accepts her with stiff grandeur, as
his little reader. The mother dies. The old, heartless
landed proprietor dies some years later. His brother
and heir, Semyón Matveitch, gives Susannah some money,
which her stepfather immediately appropriates.
Having grown up, her heart speaks for the first time; she
falls deeply in love with Semyón’s son, her cousin
Mikhaïl, an excellent young officer, who loves her as she
deserves to be loved. But no sooner is the intimacy of
the two discovered than they are ruthlessly separated.
Mikhaïl is sent away and dies immediately after. The
father, Semyón, pursues his young niece with
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