, 1885-06-17

The wifsiy Devotion OF Princess Krap8t-
Her Alteration OF the Prince.
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~ Nh'f1 DrNoAAoh OF iFlacGA3 hfIp1t~
Her Alteration OF the Prince.
Paris Cor. New York Tribune.
Prince Krapotkine's captivity was in
a way softened, and yet its pains intensi-
fled, by the devotion of his heroic little
wife. | never saw heroism in so Iowa
BILE n form as in the rincess krapot-
kline. | don't know what her age is.
But she might be a girl in her teens, or
%. She has the rosebud freshness of
youth, the bright, soft eyes OF an affec-
Tomato and high-bred dog. with SPLEEN
did CLEANS of human intellect and soul.
The upper part Of her face is broad and
the under narrow and refined, although
her mouth when she laughs is wide.
But sho has a dazzling set of teeth
TO show, and her lips when in repose
arc beautifully modelled and fresh as
newly-blown roses. Her forehead also,
by its breadth, height and Wilderness.
brightens up her face. She seems to
have the simplicity of a little child No
body, to look at the pretty face as nan
ling bushes suffuse it, would think that
she escapes from the irksome weight of
loneliness by plunging into the study of
chemistry, mathematics, electricity,
botany and other sciences. She has re-
sided in a poor lodging at Clairvaux in
its only hotel since her husband was in
generated in the prison there. Her
voice is very sweet and her accent
slightly languid. She never seems OK
cited even when her heart Is bri ming
over with grief. 1t has been her happy
privilege within the last year to pay a
daily visit in the parlor Of tho Jail to
Prince krapotkine.
One day he came there with not a
tooth in thu front OF his mouth. They
had fallen out. His gums were 80 s,or-
butte from damp, want OF air and exer-
else that they fell out as he was eating
a piece of bread. He writes scientific
articles for Nature and other journals,
and she has been allowed to take them
out Of prison alter the governor reads
them. His heart being affected and
blood d~ecomposed, he is dropsical. The
whole world knows the history of his
cat that was brought into his cell as a
kitten and, on being placed before a
looking glass was %astonished to see in 1t
her own image, and proceeded TO aseer-
tain that it was not a real prototype.
Clairvaux was erst a Benedictine mon
ostery. IL Is in a narrow valley and
raw climate. Saint Bernard exhorted
his disciples to live in wales, so that
they would be often induced by the mar
rowness Of the horizon to look up to
heaven The situation is a prison in
itself.
| believe the marriage of Prince and
Princess hrapotkins is q Nihilist one
She has always been rather his disciple
than his wife. Her tender admiration
for him and devotion to him are bound
less. Clairyaux is a days journey from
arts, and she has no society there. |
asked her one evening whether solitude
weighed upon her. mo. | study so
hard that | do not feel the time passing.
The princes moral elevation is so great
that can hardly pity him, although |
| see him fall ng to pieces. What
weighs on me is the idea that, relatively
to hundreds who are suffering for the
cause of humanity, we are in great com
fort and not shut out from human sym
pathy."