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if she knew the impression this event had left
in the girl’s mind.
The conviction that she was not loved by her
family went like a dark thread through all
Tania’s recollections from her childhood. It had
been nourished by accidental remarks of the
servants, and it increased throughout the solitary
life she led with her governess.
Malvina Jakovlevna’s lot was not very
cheerful either. Plain, alone in the world, no longer
young, a stranger in Russia, where she never
felt quite at home, and longing for English
surroundings, she concentrated on Tania all the
devotion of which her stiff, energetic, and
anything but sentimental nature was capable. Elena
Paulovna and the governess were two so
opposite natures, that sympathy between them was
impossible.
In character, as well as in outward
appearance, Tania’s mother was one of those women
who never grow old. She was of noble German
extraction, but her family had lived many
years in Russia. Her grandfather had been a
well-known man of science, and her father was
the chief of the Military Academy. His position
gave him access to the highest circles in St
Petersburg, military as well as scientific, and he
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