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Children had come, he had followed his ideas She was there

for him, just to keep him in condition She was to him one of

the baser orhis ideas, of nationalisradually, at twenty-three, twenty-four, she began to

realize that she too ht consider these ideas By his

acceptance of her self-subordination, he exhausted the feeling

in her There were those of his associates ould discuss the

ideas with her, though he did not wish to do so himself She

adventured into the minds of other men His, then, was not the

only male mind! She did not exist, then, just as his attribute!

She began to perceive the attention of other men An excitement

came over her She remembered now the men who had paid her

court, when she was married, in Warsaw

Then the rebellion broke out, and she was inspired too She

would go as a nurse at her husband's side He worked like a

lion, he wore his life out And she followed him helplessly But

she disbelieved in hinored so much

He counted tooelsebecao white when

he heard the news, then frown, as if he thought, "Why

have they died nohen I have no tirieve," she had said, in her remote,

awful soul "He has no time It is so important, what he does!