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WITH our removal to the country everything in
our house underwent a great change, and the
existence of my parents, which had been hitherto gay
and free from care, suddenly assumed a more serious
turn.
Up to that time our father had paid very little
attention to us, because he regarded the rearing of
children as the business of women, not of men. He
took a little more notice of Aniuta than of his other
children, because she was older and very amusing.
He loved to pet her, on occasion, and in winter he
sometimes took her to ride with him in his little
sledge, and he was fond of bragging about her to his
guests. When her mischievousness transgressed all
bounds, and positively drove the whole household out
of patience, complaints about her were sometimes
made to my father, but he usually turned the whole
matter into a jest, and she understood perfectly well
that although he sometimes for the sake of
appearances assumed an aspect of severity, in reality he was
ready to laugh at her pranks.
As for us younger children, our father’s relations
to us were confined to his asking nurse, when he
happened to meet us, whether we were well, pinching
our cheeks in a kindly way to convince himself that
they were plump, and sometimes taking us in his
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