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skirmishes, till Aniuta was fifteen, when, once
for all, she withdrew her allegiance from the
governess. The outward token of Aniuta’s
emancipation was that her bed was moved from
the nursery to a room adjoining Elena
Paulovna’s. From that day, Aniuta considered
herself ‘grown up and out,’ and the governess seized
every opportunity of asserting that Aniuta’s
behaviour did not concern her any more, and
that she had renounced all responsibility for it.
She now devoted her whole attention to
Tania, whom she isolated from the rest of the
family, and tried to protect from her elder sister’s
influence as anxiously as if she was guarding her
against the pestilence. And this system of
exclusion was facilitated by the arrangement of the
house, where two or three families might have
lived easily, without incommoding each other in
the least.
Nearly the whole ground-floor, except a few
spare rooms and some of the servants’ rooms, was
left to the governess and Tania. The
drawing-room floor, with the elegantly furnished reception
rooms, belonged to Elena Paulovna and Aniuta.
Fedia and his tutor had one wing, and the
general’s study occupied the ground-floor of a
tower, which formed a building by itself, separate
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