The Modern Novelists of Russia Being the Substance of Six Lectures Delivered a
The Modern Novelists of Russia Being the Substance of Six Lectures Delivered a
Charles Edward Turner
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For four whole years I never breathed or moved, never made the shortest step without feeling that I was at the galleys. But why try to explain ? If I were to fill up a hundred sheets of paper you would still have no idea of what my life really was. To understand that you must have seen with your own eyes, or rather have experienced it yourself. " And, when he had served his time as convict, the indignities to which he was subjected, particularly during the five years 94 THE MODERN NOVELISTS OF ...RUSSIA. he was quartered as a common soldier at Semipa- latinsk, were, if possible, harder to endure than all he had gone through at the galleys. " God send you peace and happiness, " he writes in 1856, " and may you never know the horrors that fall to the lot of some among us : I speak from expe- rience. Everything is against me, and I am in despair. It is not easy to suffer what I have suf- fered. I cannot tell all ; I am alone, and must remain alone, in my helpless agony. " Cut off from all he cared for, debarred every pursuit that could interest, condemned to the most humiliating drudgeries, his health shattered and ruined by daily deprivations, moneyless, homeless, and friendless, what wonder if there were moments when he lost all hope and prayed for death?
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