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-- I ventured to remind her, / I suppose with a voice of less steadiness / Than usual, for my feeling exceeded me, / -- Something to the effect that I was in readiness / Whenever God should please she needed me. / -- ROBERT BROWNING.
To the English imagination, Siberia is mainly a land of cold and darkness, through which gangs of despairing convicts are driven with the lashings of governmental whips.