La Terre.
SOUVARINE, an engine-man at the Voreux pit, who lodged with the
Rasteneurs. He was a Russian of noble family, who had at first studied
medicine, until, carried away by social enthusiasm, he learned a trade
in order that he might mix with the people. It was by this trade that he
now lived, after having fled in consequence of an unsuccessful attempt
against the Czar's life, an attempt which resulted in his mistress,
Annouchka, and many of his friends, being hanged. His principles were
those of the most violent anarchy, and he would have nothing to do with
the strike at Montsou, which he considered a merely childish affair.
Disgusted at the return of the miners to their work, he resolved to
bring about the destruction of the Voreux pit, by weakening the timbers
which kept out a vast accumulation of water. He accomplished that work
of madness in a fury of destruction in which he twenty times risked
his life. And when the torrent had invaded the mine, imprisoning the
unfortunate workers, Souvarine went calmly away into the unknown without
a glance behind. Germinal.
SPIRIT, an English horse which ran in the Grand Prix de Paris.
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