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XI
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND SORROW
SÖNYA and I had intended to spend the summer
(1878) together. The new literary partners, "
Kor-vin-Leffler" (Sönya and her biographer), intended to
go to Berlin and Paris in order to make acquaintances
in the literary and theatrical world, which would
prove usefid to them later on when the offspring of
their genius was ready to make its triumphal progress
through the world.
But all these dreams fell to the ground.
It had been decided that we should start in the
middle of May. We were as happy in the prospect as
though the whole world of success and interest lay
safely before us, when once more sad news from
Russia frustrated all our plans. Sonya’s sister was
again dangerously ill. Her husband had been forced
to return unexpectedly to Paris. There was no help
for it; Sönya was obliged to take a sorrowful journey
to a painful sick-bed. Any thought of pleasure was
out of the question, and all her letters of that summer
show that she was in very bad spirits. She writes:
My sister continues in the same state as last winter. She
suffers much, and looks desperately ill. She has not strength
enough to turn from side to side, but yet I think she is not quite
without hope of recovery. She is so glad I am with her. She
always says she would have died if I had refused to come. . . .
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