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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
lowering her dignity as a grown-up young lady, if
she listened to sueh instructive things, "interesting
only for little children." My brother stood about and
listened once, found that it was not at all jolly, and
ran off to play at horse.
As for me, our " scientific lectures," as uncle
jestingly termed them, became inexpressibly dear. Those
half-hours after dinner, when I was left alone with
my uncle, were the best part of the whole day to
me. I actually adored him; to speak frankly, I will
not swear that there was not mingled with this
feeling a certain childish falling in love, of which little
girls are much more capable than their elders suspect.
I felt a certain confusion every time that I had to
utter uncle’s name, even if it were only to inquire, " Is
uncle at home ?" If any one, observing at dinner that
I never took my eyes from him, asked me," Evidently
you are very fond of your uncle, Söfa ?" I blushed up
to my ears and made no reply.
I hardly saw anything of him all day long, as my
life was almost entirely separated from the life of the
grown-up members of the family. But during the
whole time of my lessons, the whole time of my
recreation, my constant thought was, " Won’t evening
come soon 1 Shall not I soon be with uncle 1"
One day, while he was staying with us, some
neighboring landed proprietors came to see us, with their
daughter Olga. This Olya1 was the only little girl of
my own age whom I had happened to meet.
However, they did not bring her to see us very often; but,
on the other hand, they left her for the whole day,
and she sometimes spent the night with us. She was
a very merry and lively little girl, and although our
characters and tastes were very dissimilar, so that no
1 Diminutive for Olga.—Trans.
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