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called back, this time by Aniuta herself, who
now besought her to intercede with their father
in order to induce him to forgive her deception,
and to use all possible influence to help her out
of the desperate situation in which she was
placed. Mr. Y. had been taken prisoner, and
was condemned to death.
When we remember the portrait Sonia has
given of her father in ‘The Sisters Rajevsky,’
we can easily imagine how painfully he felt
the blow when he suddenly learned the cruel
truth, that he had again been deceived by his
children, that his elder daughter had followed
her inclination, and gone her own way in
a manner which must necessarily wound all
his instincts and principles in their tenderest
point. Only a few years previously, on
discovering Aniuta’s secret authorship, for which
she received payment, he had been beside
himself with grief and anger, and had broken
out into these words: ‘Now you sell your
work, how can I be certain that some day you
will not sell yourself!’
Strangely enough, he took this new and far
deeper grief much more calmly. He and his
wife hastened to Paris, accompanied by the
Kovalevskys, and on meeting his guilty child
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