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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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less cordially than usual. The whole morning
she kept hoping that Olga would leave early;
but no, she was to stay till late in the evening.
What was to be done? At last she took courage
and spoke openly to her friend.

‘Look here, Olga,’ she said in her insinuating
way, ‘I will play with you the whole day, and
do everything you like; but then you must be
good and leave me alone after dinner. I always
have a little talk with my uncle, and we don’t
want you.’

Olga consented readily, and Tania kept
faithfully her part of the engagement. At last dinner
came. Tania was on tenter-hooks all the time.
‘Would Olga keep her promise?’ she wondered,
casting eager glances at her friend, and trying to
remind her of her promise by all kinds of signals.

‘Well, dearie, what are we going to talk about
to-day?’ Fedor Paulitsch asked after dinner,
chucking his little niece affectionately under the
chin. Tania was delighted, clasped his hands,
and was just going to retire to the dear corner
with him, when she suddenly discovered that the
faithless Olga was coming after them. Very likely
if Tania had not said anything at all, Olga would
have been the first to retire on hearing the two
talk about serious matters, for she hated

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