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advantages her sister seems to have surpassed her
considerably, and so Sonia dreamt of eclipsing
her on another ground. From her earliest years
she had been commended for her cleverness, and
her natural love of study and thirst of knowledge
were now stimulated by her ambition, and by
the encouragement of her teacher in mathematics.
She revealed the most remarkably quick
understanding, and such a wealth of ideas that her natural
gift for scientific work seemed beyond doubt.
But her father, whose consent to this kind of
study, so unusual for a young girl, had only
been given by the persuasion of an old friend
of his, who was himself a distinguished scholar,
withdrew his approval on the first suspicion that
his daughter meant to cultivate these studies in
real earnest. Her first timid hints that she
would like to go away and study at a foreign
university, were as badly received as the discovery
some years previously of Aniuta’s authorship—in
other words, as a criminal tendency to go astray.
In fact, the young girls of good families, who
had carried out similar plans, were looked upon
as nothing less than adventuresses, who brought
shame and grief on their parents.
Thus these two antagonistic currents flowed
on side by side in this aristocratic home: the
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