Chapter 117 Part Three - Thirteen

The stove was fired and the room was warmed up.The tea is boiled, poured into glasses and mugs with handles, added with milk, and turned white.Bagels, white flour bread, ordinary bread, hard-boiled eggs, milk, cow's head, and cow's hooves are all displayed.Everyone ate, drank, and chatted around the board shop that was used as a table.Emilia sat on the wooden box and poured tea for everyone.The rest were all around her except Kryltzoff.He took off his wet fur coat, wrapped himself in a toasted blanket, lay down on the bunk, and talked to Nekhludoff. After a long, cold and wet day's journey, they found the place dirty and untidy, and they took pains to put it in order.Now that we had eaten something good and drank hot tea, we all felt refreshed and happy.

The sounds of criminals stomping, shouting, and cursing from across the wall reminded them of the world outside.In this way, staying in the house feels extra comfortable.As if they were on an island in the sea, safe from the waves of humiliation and pain around them, they were exuberant and exuberant.They talked about everything, but they avoided talking about their situation and future.In addition, they are also like ordinary young men and women, getting along day and night, and naturally produce intricate love, some agree with each other, and some are reluctantly married.Almost everyone is in a relationship.Novodvorov was infatuated with Grabetz, who was beautiful and always greeted him with a smile.Grabetz was originally a student of a girls' college, very young, simple-minded, and indifferent to revolution.But she was also affected by the trend of the times, involved in a certain case, and sentenced to exile.Before she went to prison, her main interest in life was winning the favor of men.Later, during his trial, in prison, and in exile, this interest remained constant.Now in exile, she takes comfort in the fact that Novodvorov is infatuated with her, and at the same time falls in love with him.Vera was a passionate woman, but she could not attract love for her.However, she fell in love with Nabatov for a while, and Novodvorov for a while, always hoping that the other party would also have feelings for her.Kryltzov's attitude towards Serkinina was almost in love.He loved her like a man loves a woman, but he knew her view on love, so he used friendship and gratitude to cover up his true feelings, and the reason why he was grateful to her was because she took special care of him.The love relationship between Nabatov and Emilia is delicate.Just as Sekinina was a very chaste virgin, so Emilia was a very faithful wife to her husband.

Emilia fell in love with Lantsev, a student of Petersburg University, when she was sixteen, and married him when she was nineteen, while he was still studying at the university.When her husband was in the fourth grade, he was involved in a student movement and was expelled from the "St. Thomas Higher Philosophy" course in Petersburg. In 1888, he founded the Leuven Philosophical Association, and became a revolutionary in the following year.She dropped out of medical school, ran away with her husband, and became a revolutionary too.If her husband is not the best and smartest person in the world in her mind, she will not fall in love with him; if she does not fall in love with him, naturally she will not marry him.Since she fell in love with and married the man she thought was the best and wisest in the world, she naturally understood life and its purpose in terms of the man who was the best and wisest in the world.At first he thought life was reading, and she saw life that way.Then he became a revolutionary, and she became a revolutionary too.She can argue convincingly that the present system is irrational, that everyone has a duty to oppose it, and to establish a new political and economic system in which individuality can develop freely, etc.She thought she really thought and felt this way, but in fact she only regarded her husband's thinking as the absolute truth.What she pursues is nothing more than to be in harmony with her husband in spirit and to be in harmony with each other.Only in this way can she feel satisfied spiritually.

She was bitter at parting from her husband, and from her child, who had been taken up by her mother.But at parting she was strong and calm, knowing that she was enduring this pain for her husband's sake, for her cause--that cause was undoubtedly just because her husband was fighting for it.She is always with her husband in spirit.She had never loved anyone before, and now it is impossible for her to love anyone except her husband.However, Nabatov's sincere and pure love for her touched her heart and made her unable to calm down.He was just and strong, and a friend to her husband, and tried to treat her as a sister, but he felt more for her than brother and sister.It made them both uncomfortable, but it made their current difficult life easier.

Therefore, in this small group, the only people who have nothing to do with love at all are Sekinina and Marche.