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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
astonishing,1 and partly because she never felt
sufficient interest in Stockholm to have things put to
rights, feeling sure that her home there was Imt a
half-way house, and she need not therefore trouble to
spend money on it.
Sometimes, when she was in good spirits, a sudden
frenzy would seize her, and she would amuse herself
by ornamenting her small rooms with her own
needlework.
One day she sent me the following note:
Anna Carlotta ! Yesterday evening I had a pleasant proof
that the critics are right who maintain that you have eyes for the
bad and ugly, but not for the good and beautiful. Each stain,
each scratch, on one of my old venerable chairs, even if hidden
by ten antimacassars, is very certain to be discovered and
denounced by you. But my really lovely new rocking-chair cushion,
which was in evidence the whole evening, and which endeavored
to draw your attention to itself, was not honored by you with
even a single glance !
Your Sönya.
1 It may be remembered that in her childhood’s home the
nursery was papered with newspapers.
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