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respectful silence; all feel a little nervous and
solemn at this moment of parting.
At last, the General gives the signal for rising;
he goes up and makes the sign of the cross
before the saint, all follow his example, after which
they proceed to the last embraces and parting
tears.
Tania kept staring at her governess, towards
whom her feelings are undergoing a sudden
change; the strong woman looks aged and
worn; her eyes, those ‘thunderbolts,’ as the
children used to call them, which never failed to
detect the smallest offence, are now red and
swollen and full of tears; her lips are quivering
with emotion. For the first time in her life
Tania pitied her. Malvina clasps her in one
long embrace, and kisses her with a tenderness
she would never have expected.
‘Don’t forget me, write soon!’ It is a very
sad thing to part from a child for whom you
have lived so many years!’ she sobs.
And Tania clings to her and bursts out crying;
her heart aches, and she feels as if the loss of
her governess were quite irreparable, and as if it
foreboded general dissolution. And then her
conscience smites her, she is ashamed of her own
feelings that very morning, when she was happy
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