She is only seventeen, yet she promptly establishes a fashion-shop which thrives apace, and puts forth numerous branches all over the capital.

Her working-girls are treated ideally and as equals, she working with them, in which lies the answer to "What Is to Be Done ?" After a while she falls in love with her husband's dearest friend, who is described as so exactly like him that the reader is puzzled to know wherein she descried favorable difference, and the husband, perceiving this, makes things easy by pretending to drown himself, but in reality going off to America.
Several years later he returns--as an American--and his ex-wife's present husband, having become a medical celebrity, helps him to a bride by informing her panic-stricken parents (who oppose the match, although they are ignorant at first of any legal impediment to the union), that she will certainly die if they do not yield.

The two newly assorted couples live in peace, happiness, and prosperity ever after.

Work and community life are the chief themes of the preachment.

He was exiled to Siberia in 1864, and on his return to Russia (when he settled in Astrakhan, and was permitted to resume his literary labors), he busied himself with translations, critical articles, and the like, but was unable to regain his former place in literature.
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