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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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However, this time she was not to be turned
off. Neither jokes nor sarcasms had any effect.
She insisted with passionate firmness that though
her father might feel obliged to remain on his
property, there was no reason why she should be
chained to the country, where she could find
neither occupation nor pleasure.

At last Ivan Sergejevitsch grew angry and fired
up: ‘If you don’t understand that it is the duty
of every decent young girl to remain with her
parents till she marries, I am not going to waste
my time in arguing with such a silly fool!’

Aniuta saw that it was no use insisting; but
from that moment her relations to her father
became very strained, and their mutual resentment
grew bitterer everyday. They only met at dinner,
and then they scarcely spoke to one another, or if
they spoke there was a sharp sting in every word.

In fact, there was now a deep division in this
family. The governess was a bitter antagonist of
the new ideas; she used to call Aniuta a Nihilist
and a Progressist, and these nicknames had a
peculiarly sharp accent in her mouth. When her
instinct told her that there was something
extraordinary going on in Aniuta’s mind, she at once
suspected her of criminal intentions—of running
away from home to marry Alexei Philippovitsch,

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