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IX
DEPARTURE OP THE GOVERNESS. ANIUTA’S
FIRST LITERARY EFFORTS
A LARGE, old-fashioned trunk, neatly covered with
a canvas case, and bound round with ropes,
had been standing in the antechamber since morning.
Over it rose a whole battery of little pasteboard boxes,
little baskets, little bags, and little packets, without
which no old spinster can set out on a journey. An
old tarantås, drawn by three horses in the plainest,
hardest used harness, which coachman Yåkoff always
brings into play when a long journey is in prospect,
is already waiting at the door. The maids bustle to
and fro, bringing out and arranging divers small
articles and trifles, but papa’s valet, Uya, stands
motionless, lazily leaning against the door-post, and
expressing by his whole careless attitude that the
impending departure is of no great importance, and
that it is not worth while creating an uproar about it
in the house. All our family is assembled in the
dining-room. In accordance with the customary
ceremony, papa invites all to seat themselves before the
journey is begun; the gentle-folk occupy the first
row, and the whole of the house-servants are collected
in a dense group a short distance away, sitting
respectfully on the edges of their chairs. Several
minutes pass in reverent silence, during which time
the sensation of nervous anguish inevitably evoked
by every departure and parting involuntarily takes
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