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Title: The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893
An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

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THE IDLER MAGAZINE.
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.

June 1893.

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CONTENTS.

MEMOIRS OF A FEMALE NIHILIST.
II.--IN PRISON.
BY SOPHIE WASSILIEFF.

THE LEGS OF SISTER URSULA.
BY RUDYARD KIPLING.

"LIONS IN THEIR DENS."
VI.--EMILE ZOLA.
BY V. R. MOONEY.

PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER MET.
BY SCOTT RANKIN.

AN ETHIOPIAN CRICKET MATCH.
BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS.

MY FIRST BOOK.
BY R. M. BALLANTYNE.

TRIALS AND TROUBLES OF AN ARTIST.
BY FRED MILLER.

THE BROTHERS' AGENCY.
BY DO BAHIN.

MY OWN MURDERER.
BY E. J. GOODMAN.

THE IDLERS CLUB.
SHALL WE HAVE A DRAMATIC ACADEMY?

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[Illustration: "'No. 16 FOR AN INTERVIEW.'"]

_Memoirs of a Female Nihilist._

BY SOPHIE WASSILIEFF.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. ST. M. FITZ-GERALD.

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II.--IN PRISON.

The life of a female prisoner! It is so uniformly dull that I fear to
weary you, friends, in repeating its history; while for me, even now,
outside of some few days only too memorable, the twenty-seven months
spent in the fortress are like a great hole, empty and badly lighted, at
the bottom of which sometimes passed human shadows and some few
phantasmagorical scenes.

In these scattered remembrances, the foremost is my cell and the first
moments I passed there.

About ten feet square, its stone walls were covered with whitewash. For
furniture, a whitewood stool showing the marks of time and hard wear, a
rough deal table