Book 2 Chapter 29 For Her Sake and for Gods

On his return to Moscow Nekhludoff went at once to the prison
hospital to bring Maslova the sad news that the Senate had
confirmed the decision of the Court, and that she must prepare to
go to Siberia. He had little hope of the success of his petition
to the Emperor, which the advocate had written for him, and which
he now brought with him for Maslova to sign. And, strange to say,
he did not at present even wish to succeed; he had got used to
the thought of going to Siberia and living among the exiled and
the convicts, and he could not easily picture to himself how his
life and Maslova's would shape if she were acquitted. He
remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at
the time when slavery existed in America said that "under a
government that imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just
man is also a prison." Nekhludoff, especially after his visit to
Petersburg and all he discovered there, thought in the same way.

"Yes, the only place befitting an honest man in Russia at the
present time is a prison," he thought, and even felt that this
applied to him personally, when he drove up to the prison and
entered its walls.

The doorkeeper recognised Nekhludoff, and told him at once that
Maslova was no longer there.

"Where is she, then?"

Chapter 89 - Page 1 of 9

Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy

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