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IV
LIFE IN RUSSIA
HOW that family had changed since the days of
Sonya’s childhood is described in her writings.
The two young girls who had dwelt in the quiet home,
dreaming of the strange world of which they were so
ignorant, met there once more as grown-up women,
tried and developed by the experiences which each had
gone through alone.
Life, for them, ’had indeed been different from the
life of which they had dreamed.
It had, however, been full and varied enough to give
rise to long conversations round the fire during the
long winter evenings spent in the large drawing-room,
with its red-damask furniture, the samovår singing on
the table, its home-like sound mingling with the dismal
hunger-song of the wolves in the forest without.
The world beyond these precincts no longer seemed to
the two girls so vast and immeasurable. They had seen
it close at hand, and realized its proportions more fully.
Aniuta, on the one hand, had led a life full of
excitement, and her craving for emotion had been more
than gratified. She, at least, no longer indulged in
such cravings. She was passionately in love with the
husband who sat beside her, with a weary, satirical
expression on his face. Nay, she was even jealously
attached to him, and her life was still so full of
excitement that no extra stimulus was needed.
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