This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...district. We found at Michaelowka a Russian girl of about nineteen, who, with an elder sister, had given up everything to follow these people into the wilderness. When I say "everything," I mean literally everything. She was devoting herself to the cause of these people heart and soul. When I said to her, "This is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...district. We found at Michaelowka a Russian girl of about nineteen, who, with an elder sister, had given up everything to follow these people into the wilderness. When I say "everything," I mean literally everything. She was devoting herself to the cause of these people heart and soul. When I said to her, "This is the largest village I have seen," she replied quickly, " Ah, madam, and it has the largest cemetery. My dearest little brothers and sisters are there." (To these people all are " their little brothers and sisters.") "They could not stand the horrors of persecution," she added, "and the ones that died were just young things like me, or the very old ones." We were both silent. "What was it?" I asked, compelled at last to say something. "Ah!" She spread her hands out with a gesture of despair. "What was it? Why, madame, it was just everything! Hunger that brought sickness, exposure that brought consumption, sorrow for the exiled relatives in Siberia that brought heartbreak!" I cannot describe the pathos of the words uttered in French. "I was no doctor," she said. "I know so little--I did what I could." No doctor!--this tender slip of a girl with her shining eyes and sensitive quivering lips, just at the age when life is sweetest and is made up of trifles light as air. I thought of the millions of girls lounging in hammocks, petted and spoiled, wearied with the good things flung at their feet, and this pretty young thing, wearing the plainest of clothing (she had given Jill she could to her "sisters"), eating bread and whatever fare the Doukhobors had, nursing the sick and cheering the women, heartsick for their loved ones in Siberia...
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