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know so little. Remember that it is better to die, even as I die y than to live without being able to feel one's self a man of principle and honor.

Once more, good-by! Do not think ill of your unhappy son and brother, who, even in his unhappiness, finds consolation.

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All that was mortal of Eugene Semyónofski now lies in the political convicts' burying-ground on a lonely hill known as "The Convict's Head" in Eastern Siberia. The unpainted wooden cross that marks his grave will soon decay, and then nothing will remain to show where lie the ashes of a man whose brilliant talents, high standards of duty, and intense moral earnestness might have made him an honor to his country and an invaluable worker in the cause of freedom and humanity.

Among the most gifted and attractive of the women who were in penal servitude at the mines of Kará when the free command was sent back to prison was Márya Pavlovna Kavaléfskaya—born Vorontsóf—who was arrested with Miss Armfeldt in Kiev in 1879. She was the daughter of Paul Vorontsóf, a landed proprietor [poméishkchik] in the south of Russia, and was the sister of Basil Vorontsóf, a well-known Russian political economist. She had a liberal education, and was characterized as a girl by tenacity of purpose, generous feeling, and a sensitive nervous organization. Her brother's interest in political economy led her at a comparatively early age to study the problems presented by Russian life, and even before her marriage she made an attempt, by opening a peasant school, to do something to improve the condition of the great ignorant mass of the Russian common people. At the age of twenty-two or twenty-three she married a teacher in one of the gymnasia or high schools of Kiev named Kavaléfski—a man of culture and refinement, who at one time had been a