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The difference in character between the two friends was
also expressed, among other things, in such trifles as those
by the aid of which Sophia was sometimes fond of building
up a delineation of certain persons, attributing to these
trifles great significance. When Sophia was well, for
instance, she put out her hand with a sharp, brisk movement,
and her thin, nervous fingers instantly slipped out of the
hand of the person who met her, like the wings of a
captured bird. This manner of shaking hands indicated a
nervous, impressionable nature; bespoke a person who
always acted under the influence of impulse. On the
contrary, Anna Carlotta’s manner of moving her beautiful
hands expressed calm grace. She extended her elegant,
white hand, with its slender fingers, with a sort of reserve,
but left it for a while in the hand of her interlocutor, calmly
awaiting a responsive pressure. As in trifles, so in more
serious things, she always produced the impression of a
solid, well-poised, reserved personality. She seemed
unsympathetic to some men, thanks to the fact that she was
as daring as she was independent; but one had only to get
better acquainted with her, and this unpleasant feeling
gave way to the warmest sympathy, so that more than one
man regretted that he had met her too låte. Women
admired in her the authoress who worked seriously; who was
distinguished for such masculine impartiality, and such
wonderful clearness of thought.
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