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an excellent mistress of the house, but in her
Russian home it was rather difficult to develop
domestic virtues. The order of this house was
maintained as it had been for generations in the
Rajevski family. The servants were old serfs,
and had long ago arrogated all power and
authority; and their new mistress, who was almost
a child, and of a gentle, yielding disposition,
could not assert herself sufficiently to carry out
any change in the household. In the few cases
in which she had attempted an innovation, her
orders had been carried out so reluctantly, and
with such evident intention to do wrong, that
after all, poor Elena Paulovna had been obliged to
acknowledge her deficiency, and with every defeat,
of course, the servants’ tyranny had increased.
She was simply afraid of the governess, who,
on her side, treated the young mistress somewhat
harshly, and considered herself the sovereign in
the children’s room. Consequently Elena seldom
went to the schoolroom, and never interfered
with her children’s education.
As for Tania, she adored her mother, and
thought her the finest, most lovely of all the
women she knew; but she could not help feeling
a little wronged by her—why did her mother
love her less than her sister and brother?
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