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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
her dear student lives. After much searching and
many adventures, resulting from her inexperience and
awkwardness, she finds his lodging at last, but there
she learns from the comrade who shares it with hirn
that the poor fellow had died a few days before of
typhus fever. His comrade tells her what a hard life he
led, what want he suffered, and how, in his delirium,
he had several times mentioned a young lady. For
the comfort or the reproof of the weeping Lilenka he
repeats to her these verses of Dobroliuboff:
I fear that even death hath played
A scurvy trick upon me.
I fear that all I’ve craved in life,
So warmly, eagerly,
Will cheerily smile upon me, dead,
As I lie in my coffin wearily.
Lilenka returns to her home, and none of the
household ever knows where she had spent that day.
But she always retains the conviction that she has
deliberately flung away her happiness. She does not
live long, and dies sorrowing over her wasted youth,
which has held nothing worth mentioning.
Aniuta’s first success gave her so much courage
that she immediately set to work on another story,
which she finished in a few weeks. This time the
hero of her story was a young man, Mikhåil by name,
reared apart from his family, in a monastery, by his
uncle, a monk. This story Dostoévsky approved more
highly than the first, and regarded it as more mature.
The portrait of Mikhail offers some resemblance to
that of Alyösha, in " The Karamåzoff Brothers."1
When I read this romance several years later, as it
appeared, I was forcibly struck by this resemblance,
1 A romance, by F. Dostoévsky.— Trans.
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