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to him in the course of their conversation. He
answered, quite unexpectedly, that he felt very
much inclined to enter upon the scheme, only
with this change in the programme, that he
wished Sonia for his wife.
This, however, caused much anxiety to the
three allies; how could they possibly persuade
the father to give away this child, especially as
her six-year-older sister was still unmarried? If
an acceptable ‘parti’ for the eldest daughter
had been proposed, they knew quite well that
her father would not have been adverse to it.
Indeed, Aniuta gave him much anxiety through
her fanciful, unaccountable character, and she
was of an age when a young girl ought to marry.
No doubt Kovalevsky was rather young, but his
prospects seemed very hopeful, and he would
not have been at all unwelcome as a suitor to
the elder daughter. But Sonia! No. The offer
was refused absolutely and without appeal, and
the family prepared at once to return to
Palibino.
What was to be done? To go back into the
country, to give up all hope, to say good-bye to
all interests which had become the essence of
life to the young girls—was like going into
prison without feeling that they were martyrs
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