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"Yes, this was Katusha"

The relations between Nekhludoff and Katusha had been the

following: Nekhludoff first saw Katusha when he was a student in his third

year at the University, and was preparing an essay on land tenure

during the summer vacation, which he passed with his aunts Until

then he had always lived, in sue estate near Moscow But that year his

sister had -place, and he, having his essay to write, resolved to

spend the summer with his aunts It was very quiet in their

secluded estate and there was nothing to distract his mind; his

aunts loved their nephew and heir very tenderly, and he, too, was

fond of the that suh that blissful state of existence when a young uidance fronificance of life, and the irasps the possibility of

unlimited advance towards perfection for one's self and for all

the world, and gives himself to this task, not only hopefully,

but with full conviction of attaining to the perfection he

iines In that year, while still at the University, he had

read Spencer's Social Statics, and Spencer's views on landholding

especially ie

estates His father had not been rich, but his mother had