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—this was the idea which inspired the hearts
of these young daughters of aristocratic families.
Their parents, who had never dreamt of
educating them for anything but their destination as
ladies and married women, naturally took an
uncompromising and hostile position at these
signs of independence and rebellion, which now
and then burst through the mysterious reticence
usually observed by the young in presence of
their elders.
‘What a happy time!’ Sonia used to exclaim
when speaking of this period of her life. ‘We
were so exalted by all these new ideas, so
convinced, that the present state of society could
not last long, that the glorious time of liberty
and general knowledge was quite near, quite
certain. And then, what delight in the
fellowship of these aspirations! No sooner would two
or three young people meet at a party of elders,
where they had no right to make themselves
heard, than they understood one another
immediately by a look, a sigh, an intonation of the voice,
and felt that they belonged to one brotherhood.
‘What a secret happiness to feel near this
young man or woman, whom perhaps you had
never seen before, with whom you had scarcely
exchanged a few commonplace words, yet who,
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