A tall, bony old woman, with iron face and dull, fixed look, moves with
long strides, and, with an arm dry as a stick, pushes before her another
woman.
This woman–of huge stature, powerful, thick-set, with the muscles of a
Hercules, with a tiny head set on a bull neck, and blind–in her turn
pushes before her a small, thin girl.
This girl alone has eyes that see; she resists, turns round, lifts fair,
delicate hands; her face, full of life, shows impatience and daring…. She
wants not to obey, she wants not to go, where they are driving her … but,
still, she has to yield and go.
_Necessitas–Vis–Libertas_!
Who will, may translate.
(Ivan Turgenev)
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