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her exercise, when she was alone, was the
library, which proved a great temptation. Here
books lay scattered on tables, chairs, and sofas,
and there was the greatest variety of foreign
novels and Russian periodicals. Tania was
strictly forbidden to touch any of these books,
for Malvina Jakovlevna was most particular
about her reading, and did not allow her pupil
to read anything she did not know thoroughly
herself; but as she read rather slowly, and
seldom found time to peruse such books as the
child wished to have, Tania was in a chronic
state of mental hunger. How then could
she be expected always to resist the forbidden
fruit?
She would struggle for a few moments, then
take one of the books in her hand, and read
a few lines here and there, and again run back
to the hall and play for a while; but at last the
temptation was too strong, and so by degrees
one book was read after the other. Now and
then she rushed into the other room and played
with the ball, and so she generally escaped
discovery. But occasionally she would be so
absorbed in her reading that she forgot the
time, and was caught in the very act by her
governess, and this entailed the worst
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