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daybreak, as she was sitting with the child at her breast,
the workman killed her in a fit of jealous frenzy. He
thought that in her face he read regret for having
stooped down to him. Two years after, the child was
brought to St. Petersburg, to her parents.
Very significant and instructive is an unprinted and
prohibited novel of Korolenko, the title of which is
“Strange,” and the plot as follows: —
A woman has been sent in exile to a distant province.
One of the gendarmes who has accompanied the young
lady is the narrator. She has not been able in advance
to find out where she is to be sent to, and is thus, by two
gendarmes, taken almost through the whole of Siberia.
One of the gendarmes, an uncultivated but fine fellow,
feels so deeply affected by her youth and charms that
he actually falls in love with her, and cannot obey his
orders. He tells her the name of the town which is
selected for her abode. “Good!” she says; “there are
several of ours there.” Immediately on her arrival, she
goes to a young man, whose name she knows, but whom
she has never seen, and takes lodgings in his house.
She falls ill, of a lung disease.
A month later the gendarme comes again through the
town, seeks her out, and finds the young man by her
bedside, and with astonishment hears them still using
the formal “you” to each other. It is impossible for
him to understand what kind of bond it is which unites
them; it is clear that it is not love; but the companionship
of ideas is foreign to his scope of comprehension.
He makes known to the young girl his attachment for
her, but she drives him away with the greatest
abhorrence. She does not dislike him personally; but solely
because he is a gendarme, from principle, from love for
the cause to which she has devoted her life; he is for her
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