The New York herald., 1873-10-17

prove my mind. come from Pand IN Hungary,
| where there are no means OF improving the mind.
have been already year In Zurich have matri-
culated In the winter session OF 1872
am quite happy. All desire ia to be
lett in peace with my books When woman IL
unoved she should try to make herself useful. She
has no other career before her. am quite alone.
live here by myself because cannot bear the re-
strant OF residing with family, and will not
suffer any interruption to my studies IL is
mpossible 20 study unless one can feel sure
OF privacy; and II any one teazes me
with talk my mind Is unhinged for the day.
or course ! know the other female students,
though do not associate with them. viii go
with you now and see them, II you like DO not
thank me. would do the same thing for street
boy. Ny idea OF duty is to make myself useful"
She rose. put on her hat, and with
THE NATURAL INSTINCT or LADY,
which she could not forget or l think she
would have done So she took . pair OF new
gloves from her cupboard, and then was ready TO
accompany me, though the rain poured down In
torrents
81 see you have got q carriage" she Observed
indinerently as we stood at the street loor $50
much the better; you will do your business moro
quickly.n 1 held my umbrella respectfully over
her head while she stepped into the carriage, and
when she was seated she turned sharply round
i
something ike q returning dawn Of her youths
blighted summer steal back into her lace, and II
suddenly dimpled all over with laughter. .You
must treat me as q comrade,n she said. ~ Will
have nonsense about holding up umbrellas. I
am not a lady; am medical student Let US be
hail fellow we'll met,' or will have nothing to say
TO you" Then the hard expression settled once
more into her face, aud she went on talking in
nerce captious, desultory manner. Presently the
carriage stopped before low, bare, cherries
| building in the suburb.
"This 10
THE RUSSIAN STUDENTS HOUSE."
| remarked the Countess, walking In before me with
resolute step. We were met by q souching, dirty
| fellow, who was iounging on the staircase in an
idle way. Ny companion tackled him at once, a.
though she were commanding a troop Of horse.
| "Are any Of the female students here now 2" she
| asked, peremptorily. The dirty man got up and
scratched his head to collect his thoughts, which
1 were possibly not the only things he collected.
4 "Yes," he drawled out when he had done so.
"Show me In to them," said the Countess" Here
| is a gentleman come to look at them"
Some filthy looking fellows, who looked like the
sons OF newly emancipated serfs, now opened the
| doors OF row OF rooms opening on to a corridor
'Those are Russian Students said the Countess,
| as she might have said, ''Those are the wild
4
tween them and some OF the lower animals, save
that they asserted their brotherhood with men by
clothes. They were gross, clumsy, thickset, low
/ browed, truculent creatures, unkempt and un-
shorn. They wore heavy boots outside their trou-
sers, and had furtive hang-dog look about them.
When they had examined US they shut themselves
into their dens again. They evidently did not like
our appearance. Perhaps they thought was an
other tnquisltive Russian general come to look
into their AFFAIRS
'fwil you wait in the library'" inquired the dirty
man, to whom the Countess had first spoken, and
he showed US the way TO o large, white-washed
room. noored with plain deal boards On the table
were half o dozen newspapers, and some
shelves were perhaps 100 books. An abomnably
dirty lout sat smoking at table near the window.
1t was q bleak, desolate place, and the two dirty
men in It stared at us silently.
"You have bought this house, haven't you 2"
said the Countess sharply; "what did you give for
L.
The dirty nan who was smoking rose and strag.
gled towards u.s. The Countess Cuug ghed as the
cloud OF rank tobacco smoke which preceded him
like rolling fog began to enyelop her.
"Aye, aye" ia, jan, replied this dirty man, for
the conversation went on in corrupt German, 1--WE
have bought the house, because we wanted to be
free from spies. We paid SO, 900 francs for it. We
like TO be independent. The ukase says we bought
it to practise the doctrines OF free love. That is
calumny." Here the dirty man leered at the Coun-
tess, and again she coughed.
"Are none OF the female students at home ~ she
asked again.
The dirty men slouched towards the door with.
out answering. She followed them and motioned
to me to accompany her. Then the dirty men
stood irresoluteiy at the door, and one leered,
while the other looked doggedly down az his heavy
boots and put on an air OF resolute stupidity which
have often observed in Russian peasants when
driven to bay by an authority which they viii
ne Ither resist nor obey.
81 want to see one OF the female Students" re-
peated the Countess in a sharp commanding voice.
She mentioned the name OF student, and at last
one OF the dirty men-it was the man who leered-
moved heavily down the corridor, and, STOPPING at
the last door on the lett Knocked loudly and
bawled
There was no answer for some minutes, but at
last tue door opened just wide enough TO admit the
passage OF another horribly dirty mans head. This
dirty man stared sulkiy at US Tor minute, and
dirty man who eered now took up our cause as his
own. and battered away lercey at the door,
shouting as he did So: Nobody answered him.
''Let Us gou said the Countess, as the leertng
man loomed again towards her through his own
private fog. They wlll not let US in, and l am
''Look heren fschen sieJ, growled the man who
leered, with look half familiar and half ashamed !;
''sne has had misfortune
''Pughn exclaimed the Countess, when we got
again into the carriage, and she tried to watt away
the fetd air OF that filthy place, which seemed to
| cling to US.
we drove next to the lodgings OF a student OF
| philosophy, and found her In q small bedroom, to-
| gether with another female student and two men.
| They were taking about the ukase, and smoking.
| Miss L. Ii young lady apparently under twenty
years OF age, and pretty. fair, innocent looking
| girl, who received me with a sweet smile when /
was introduced TO her. Then he'stood up, leaned
against the wall, and answered my questions with
| agreeable frankness
II was born" she said, "at stayropo, in Russia.
came here in the winter OF 1872n She would have
said more, but one OF the men present-a iar,
beardiess youngster about nineteen years old
broke into the Conversation. He was stold, ag-
gressve person. evidently full OF crude ideas about
freedom, and his manners were Obstructive.
sShe has seen the ukase,n he said, stubbornly,
"and you may see if you like. get IL for you
II Is printed In an old newspaper under my bed.
She is going away they are all going away: ]