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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
with every passing day. At dinner, the only time in
the day when they met, they almost never addressed
each other directly now, but a sting or a vicious hint
was to be felt in every word which they uttered.
Altogether, unprecedented discord now began to
reign in our family. There had been very few
general interests hitherto; previous to this each
member of the family had lived to suit himself, simply
paying no attention to the others. But now two
hostile camps seemed to have formed.
The governess had announced herself as the
vigorous opponent of all new ideas, from the very
beginning. She christened Aniuta the " nihilist," and
the "progressive young lady." This last nickname
had a particularly stinging sound on her lips.
Feeling, by instinct, that Aniuta was plotting something,
she began to suspect her of the most criminal designs
— of running away from home on the sly, of
marrying the priest’s son, of entering the notorious
community. So she became watchful, and distrustfully
spied upon every step she took. But Aniuta, feeling
that the governess was spying upon her, began
deliberately, and for the purpose of irritating her, to
surround herself with offensive mystery.
The warlike mood which now reigned in our house
soon infected me. The governess, who had previously
disapproved of my intimacy with Aniuta, now began
to protect her pupil against the " progressive young
lady," as if from the pest. As far as she was able
she prevented my remaining alone with my sister, and
every attempt to make my escape from the
schoolroom, and run up-stairs to the world of the grown
people, she began to regard as a crime.
I grew frightfully weary of the governess’s
watchful oversight. I also felt instinctively that Aniuta
had acquired some new and hitherto unprecedented
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