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or to join the ill-famed mysterious community.
Therefore she took upon herself to spy out all
her steps. And Aniuta, feeling that she was
suspected, tried to mystify her still more by her
manners and appearance.
Elena Paulovna was the only member of the
family who pretended not to notice what was
going on; she always tried to smoothe matters
down, and to reconcile everybody.
Tania was thirteen by this time, and, of course,
the warlike disposition that had taken hold of
the family inevitably exercised a bad effect upon
her. The governess now persisted in protecting
her pupil from the ‘Nihilist,’ as if she were
pest-smitten, and this constant supervision exasperated
Tania. She was aware that Aniuta’s mind was
filled with new and remarkable interests, and she
was dying to know what they were about.
Whenever she managed to rush up a moment to her
sister’s room she found her at her writing-table;
but Aniuta would never tell what she was
writing, as she had been scolded more than once by
the governess for not only going astray herself
but for tempting Tania to do wrong too. ‘Tania,
dear, do go away now,’ she would say. ‘If
Malvina Jakovlevna catches you here, there will be
a row again, you know!’ And Tania went back
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