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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
and naturally felt no interest in a circumscribed life
with Sönya in a student’s chamber. She wished to
study the world and the theater, and live in literary
circles.
As soon, therefore, as she was free from parental
control, she definitely took her own way. It was
impossible for her to write and tell her father that she
was living alone in Paris, so she gave full license to
her desire to live her own life independently, and
deceived him. She wrote to him through Sönya, so that
her letters always bore the same postmark as those
of her sister. She originally intended to make but a
short stay in Paris, and quieted her conscience by the
plea that she would explain her conduct by word of
mouth.
But she then entered into a relationship which
fascinated her so entirely that it was impossible for her
to extricate herself. Every day she remained in Paris
it became more difficult to communicate honestly with
her parents. She entered into a liaison with a young
Frenchman, who later became one of the communist
leaders; and she thus found herself immured in Paris
during the whole of the siege.
Sönya was much disturbed as to the fate of her
sister, and deeply impressed with the responsibility
which rested on her own shoulders for having abetted
her secret journey. Immediately after the siege of
Paris was raised she and her husband sought to enter
that city in order to search for Aniuta.
Sönya could never speak of this journey in later
years without congratulating herself, and marveling at
their success in getting into the town right in the face
of the German troops. She and Vladimir wandered on
foot along the Seine till they came to a deserted boat,
drawn up upon the shore. Of this they at once took
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