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The heroine’s fate was so like the authoress’s
that everybody was struck by it. Ivan
Sergejevitsch listened in perfect silence. But when
Aniuta came to the last page, where Lilienka is
dying, and bewails her lost youth, her voice
trembled with suppressed sobs, and her father’s
eyes filled with tears. He rose without saying a
word, and left the room. He never spoke to
Aniuta about her story, but he treated her with
great tenderness, and everybody understood that
her cause was gained.
A spirit of gentleness and conciliation seemed
to dawn on the family from that day. Its first
important token was, that the housekeeper, whom
Ivan Sergejevitsch had dismissed in his first
wrath, was graciously allowed to remain at her
post.
And the next act of forbearance was even
more astonishing. Ivan Sergejevitsch
permitted Aniuta to write to Dostojevsky, only
with the restriction that she was to show him
the letter. More still, he promised that, during
their approaching visit to St Petersburg, she was
to make his personal acquaintance.
When his wife and daughter went to the
capital, the General used to remain in the
country, as well as Tania, who was under the
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