Show verk I 1 the Care career er of abrade a brave russian wo man Nl hIst I 1 in underground vera Sass has nothing about her of the heroine of a pseudo radical tragedy nor of the ethereal and ecstatic young girl she is a strong robust woman and although of middle height seema seem S at it first aig bight lit to batall be tall she is 1 hot beautiful b I 1 her eyes art very cry fine lage well shap shaped ed with long I 1 lashes ashes and tind of gray co color I 1 or which become dark dirk when the she I 1 is s excited ordinarily thoughtful somewhat sad the these eyes shine forth brilliantly when mile she is enthusiastic which not antly happens or sparkle when hagens I 1 sYle she jests w which ich happen very often ten the mig mirtest test change of mind ia is reflected fleet ed in the expressive eyes the rest of her face is very ivery common I 1 place her nose la Is somewhat long thin lips large head adorned wit with h a almost black hair she is very negligent tin in regard to her appearance she pivus no thought to it whatever she has not the slightest trace of the desire which almost every ivery woman has of displaying her beauty she is too abstracted j too deeply immersed in her thoughts though tsi to continuously con give heed teed to 6 things which interest her so little I 1 there is rono rone thing however however which i corresponds even evae ii less legi than her exterior with the idea of an ethereal young girl il it is her voice at first she speaks like most people but this preliminary state cantin kufs ues avery a very short abort time no sooner booner do her h e r words become an li I 1 than she raises be her r voice and speaks as oud loud as th though ahe was addressing essing some one half deaf least fast a hundred bardi distant notwithstanding sta every effi effort ort the she cannot break herself orthis of this habit she is so abstracted that she I 1 immediately m m ed for forgets ets the banter of her frien friends ru and her own determination to 0 o speak iko like the rest of the world in hi order brider to avoid observation in the street directly some Bome interesting su subject W hect is i is touched upon she immediately begins to exclaim accompanying her iber words with her favorite and able gesture cleaving the air ie energetically getic ally with her right tand hand as hough though it were 83 a sword word under this aspect t so simple sill aple rough and poetical calebe she conceals however a mind ull full of the highest poetry profound and Row powerful erful full ot indignation inglove ind love vera Sassa litch ido buo is once more mora reported as having by the russian has bas been extensively as arid entry illi 0 atit 11 he idae id ae her french sister louis michel aichel she was born in u 1850 according to the apparent ly y anost most trustworthy authorities and d in 1867 was shut up in a lithuanian prison forthe offense of being a schoolmate of the sister of f net cha chaneff ch ajeff j ear the political cenap conspirator 0 brator ler r imprisonment lasted two years and she bad had scarcely been liberated when she was rearrested on an administrative order of ails and hurried away from her mothers house 0 o ra rapidly idly that she abe would haye have perished with cold but for the compassion of a gendarme who covered with his cloak for yeara ars she he was passed on fim from town towa to town as a suspect until having i spent the best yeara years of her herb life lifs in irison and a victim to the inso ence and brutality of the police she had haa learned to pity thase who were similarly afflicted and to desire to aven avenge e them in 1878 she le earned arnedo of A the brutal ill treatment of oan a prisoner bogoluboff by gen OT Pre prefect feet of the town at st P petersburg the general had entered the fort fortress and was exas pra e ted on be beholding helding bogoluboff md and a compan companion iod walkine together and conversing con iverel as not b being ei i ng con vecta but merely accused men detained on suspicion they had a right to 0 do to a harsh question as to why this was allowed one nathe of the two wo volunteered an explanation 1 I do not address yon yot to your your dungeon shouted tha general genral furi asly the two prisoners walked on quietly when crying hata out aimeda blawat t bogo baboff the prisoners bat fell of off T aut bogoluboff picked it up tip and put it 0 on whereon hereon the general ordered him to be flogged A k romantic version version made it seem that vera Sass had been beers aca acq acquainted with bogoluboff had even been beta 11 us mistress but no truth a the story shereaf She read with ind indignation ignati 1 ait oit of pie the outrage and waited some time to see if the government would pay any kiny attention to ii it when no action nas was taken sh she e res resolved olvea to do vengeance bauce herself and on the fifth of february Feb february roAry 1878 1078 arent wan to t the generals reception roam with a petition pe tit 1 loin and when he stretched out hit his hand ko to receive it shot iho biro thim through the body shar made no effort to t escape 11 and nd said thai she the had bad fired upon the gi general ne r al can caring n gw whether she killed him or merely wound wounded ed him since in the latter litter cue her ber end would be obtained i ined of df calling attention to his brutality fahe was brought to trial iff ADA april 1878 and find defended by M alexandroff A I 1 n dro if the jury selected was composed raema era of ahe civil service two merchants its and a noble manai inspector at I 1 I 1 e j J I 1 az I 1 r it 1 student and an artist and it acquitted her promptly prom p aly amid the applause aw ue of the audience des despite ite the den dence ce her bei avowal and the speeches of tho the judge and the prosecutor the acquittal provoked a general outburst of applause from the press throughout louesia on the 3rd ard of july sul r 1878 vera Saas Sass appeared at geneva where she wa was received in triumph tritt n by rochefort and his fri friend endo she gave ga ve out that she had been rearrested but permitted toes ca pe I 1 waa was reported for f or sometime rome tim that 9 at the vcra of geneva waa was an tin impo impostor and that the charlotte corday really in siberia bul finally 1 y all doubts as a identity identify ceased in december 1879 sl he published a statement to 16 the effect that her attempt on the I 1 life had been made in A pursuance of d orders from the revolutionary Revolution I 1 corn cont cittee a and nd that she had been d designated by lot aa as the avenger WK in february 1880 her irrett arrest vex aid to have been effected its ai st peers the report proved falie filse and she was repeatedly heard af of thereafter at tit geneva Ge and paris taris pushing 1 on bit the nihilist propaganda I 1 and active a aa one onda fit the th editors of the q doaa well known nihilist review 1 |