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the stupid slaves, and gave a detailed report to
the judge of what had happened. And dearly
they had to pay for it. They were flogged, and
sent to Siberia, where many of them are still
dragging on a miserable existence.’
Aunt Anna stops, and the children are
horror-stricken.
‘Now, you must not for the world let your
parents know what I have told you,’ she says;
and the children feel perfectly well that it
would’nt do to speak to their parents or governess
about these things; it would make a dreadful
scene, and they would never be told anything again.
But Tania is haunted by this awful story, and
cannot sleep for it.
Once, when visiting her uncle,she had seen a
full-length portrait in oil of Nadeschda Andrejevna,
painted in the conventional fashion; and now, all
of a sudden, this picture stands vividly before
her—this doll-like lady with the small and
delicate limbs, in a low red velvet dress, with a garnet
necklace on her plump white neck, full, rosy
cheeks, proud, large, black eyes, and a
stereotyped smile about her tiny, red mouth. And
Tania pictures to herself the wild horror in those
eyes, when she suddenly saw her own serfs
rush into the room to take her life.
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