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you knew, was one of the flock, who shared
your own ideas and hopes, your own readiness
to sacrifice self to the common cause.’
In the society of friends who gathered round
Aniuta as their centre, nobody as yet paid any
attention to Sonia; she was six years younger
than her sister, and quite a child in appearance.
Aniuta allowed her to be present, because she
was fond of the little girl, with her
green-gooseberry eyes, that would beam with delight
at every warm and enthusiastic word spoken
by one of her elders, and who, besides, was never
intrusive, but kept modestly in the background,
behind her older and more brilliant sister.
Sonia thoroughly admired Aniuta, whom she
considered in every respect her superior, in beauty,
grace, talents and intelligence. But her
admiration was mixed with a considerable amount of
jealousy, the kind which yearns to equal its
object, never to depreciate or lower it. This
tendency, which Sonia herself mentions in the
recollections of her childhood, was characteristic
of her throughout life. She was always inclined
to overrate in others the qualities she wished to
possess herself, and to repine at the lack of
them; and she was particularly impressed by
beauty and pleasant manners. In these
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