HARMONICA MUSIC: Shoustova spoke she got more and more excited, and twisted and untwisted the lock of hair round her finger. "Lydia, dear, be calm," the mother said, touching her shoulder. But Shoustova could not stop herself. "It is all the more terrible--" she began again, but did not finish, and jumping up with a cry rushed out of the room. Her mother turned to follow her. "They ought to be hanged, the rascals!" said the schoolboy who was sitting on the window-sill. "What's that?" said the mother. "I only said--Oh, it's nothing," the schoolboy answered, and taking a cigarette that lay on theHARMONICA MUSIC: table, he began to smoke. CHAPTER XXVI. LYDIA'S AUNT. "Yes, that solitary confinement is terrible for the young," said the aunt, shaking her head and also lighting a cigarette. "I should say for every one," Nekhludoff replied. "No, not for all," answered the aunt. "For the real revolutionists, I have been told, it is rest and quiet. A man who is wanted by the police lives in continual anxiety, material want, and fear for himself and others, and for his cause, and at last, when he is taken up and it is all over, and all responsibility is off his shoulders, he
HARMONICA MUSIC: can sit and rest. I have been told they actually feel joyful when taken up. But the young and innocent (they always first arrest the innocent, like Lydia), for them the first shock is terrible. It is not that they deprive you of freedom; and the bad food and bad air--all that is nothing. Three times as many privations would be easily borne if it were not for the moral shock when one is first taken." "Have you experienced it?" "I? I was twice in prison," she answered, with a sad, gentle smile. "When I was arrested for the first time I
HARMONICA MUSIC: had done nothing. I was 22, had a child, and was expecting another. Though the loss of freedom and the parting with my child and husband were hard, they were nothing when compared with what I felt when I found out that I had ceased being a human creature and had become a thing. I wished to say good-bye to my little daughter. I was told to go and get into the trap. I asked where I was being taken to. The answer was that I should know when I got there. I asked what I was accused of, but got no
HARMONICA MUSIC: reply. After I had been examined, and after they had undressed me and put numbered prison clothes on me, they led me to a vault, opened a door, pushed me in, and left me alone; a sentinel, with a loaded gun, paced up and down in front of my door, and every now and then looked in through a crack--I felt terribly depressed. What struck me most at the time was that the gendarme officer who examined me offered me a cigarette. So he knew that people liked smoking, and must know that they liked freedom and light; and that mothers love
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