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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
what you are like, and you won’t talk to me. I
thought that now Margarita had gone away that we
were going to be very friendly, but you drive me off.
Well, I ’11 go, and I ’11 never, never love you."
I am almost in tears, and am on the point of
departing, but my sister calls me. In reality she
is burning with the desire to tell some one about
what interests her, and as she cannot talk to any
member of the household about it, she contents
herself with her twelve-year-old sister for lack of a
better confidant.
" Listen," she says. " If you will promise that you
will never tell any one, under any circumstances
whatever, I will confide to you a great secret."
My tears vanish instantaneously; my wrath is as if
it had never existed. Of course I swear that I will
be as dumb as a fish, and I impatiently await her
confidence.
" Come to my room," she says solemnly. "I will
show you something which you certainly do not
expect."
She takes me to her room, and leads me to an old
bureau in which, as I am aware, she keeps her most
precious secrets. Without haste, deliberately, in
order to prolong my curiosity, she opens one of the
drawers and takes from it a large envelop of
busi-ness-like aspect, with a red seal on which is engraved,
" The Epoch Magazine." The envelop bears the
address, Dömna Nikitishna Kuzmin (this is the name
of one of our housekeepers, who is heartily
devoted to my sister, and would go through fire and
water for her). From this envelop my sister draws
another smaller envelop with the inscription, "For
Anna Vasilievna Korvin-Krukovsky," and at last
she hands me a letter in a large, masculine handwrit-
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