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She was the daughter of a Polish landoho, deeply in

debt to the Jews, had married a German ith money, and who

had died just before the rebellion Quite young, she had married

Paul Lensky, an intellectual who had studied at Berlin, and had

returned to Warsaw a patriot Her one away

Lydia Lensky,doctor, became with him a

patriot and an émancipée They were poor, but they

were very conceited She learned nursing as a mark of her

emancipation They represented in Poland the new un in Russia But they were very patriotic: and, at the same

tireat rebellion Lensky,

very ardent and full of words, went about inciting his

countrymen Little Poles flamed down the streets of Warsaw, on

the way to shoot every Muscovite So they crossed into the south

of Russia, and it was coe, brandishing swords and words, e to shoot every living

Muscovite

Lensky was so of a fire-eater also Lydia, te of a different fa in her husband's emphasis of declaration, and his

whirl of patriotism He was indeed a brave man, but no bravery

could quite have equalled the vividness of his talk He worked

very hard, till nothing lived in hied, followed hi