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sönya kovalévsky
as a free kazåk, recognizing no authority over her
actions. She possessed the right of free entry to the
drawing-room, and from her infancy she had won the
reputation of being a charming child, and was
accustomed to entertain the guests with brilliant and
sometimes even impertinent sallies and remarks.
But my brother and I showed ourselves in the state
apartments only on extraordinary occasions. We
generally breakfasted and dined in the nursery.
Sometimes, when we had guests to dinner,
mama’s maid, Naståsya, would run into the nursery
during the dessert.
"Nursey, put on Fédenka’s blue silk blouse, and
take hirn to the dining-room. The mistress wishes to
show him to her guests!" she would say.
"And what am I ordered to put on Sönetchka?"
asks nurse, in an angry tone, because she already
foresees what the answer will be.
" Sönetchka is not wanted. She is to stay in the
nursery! She’s our little stay-at-home!" replies the
maid, with a laugh, knowing how this answer will
enrage nurse.
And, in fact, nurse does regard this wish to exhibit
Fédenka only to the guests as a bitter insult to me;
and she goes about in a rage for a long time afterward,
muttering to herself, gazing at me with compassion,
and stroking my hair, as she adds: " My poor child,
my bright darling!"
It is night. Nurse has already put me and my
brother to bed, but she has not yet taken off her
inevitable silk kerchief, the removal of which signifies
with her the transition from meditation to repose.
She is sitting on the divan, in front of the round
table, and drinking tea with Naståsya.
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