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choose the most correct expression, and she
forgot quickly. After having learned Swedish
she nearly forgot her German, and after a few
months’ absence from Sweden her Swedish used
to be miserable. Moreover, with language as
with everything else, much depended on her
personal mood. When tired and indisposed
she had difficulty in finding words, but when in
high spirits she expressed herself with ease and
elegance.
She often regretted that she could not speak
Russian with her intimate friends in Sweden, as
it prevented her from expressing the most
delicate shades of her thoughts. In Russia it
was as if she had escaped from a kind of prison,
where her best thoughts had been kept under
lock and key. At the same time her
countrymen censured her style, because of certain
foreign elements in it.
In February 1884, I went to London, and did
not see Sonia again till September the same
year. I received only one letter from her, in
which she gives the following description of her
first winter in Stockholm :—
‘What shall I tell you about our life in
Stockholm? Though not very eventful, it has been
animated enough, and of late rather fatiguing.
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