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A BIOGRAPHY
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ideas with her intellectual peers, apart from any
personal tie, was the loftiest of all intercourse. The joy
of creation was upon her, and now she entered into
one of those brilliant periods of hers, when she was
handsome, full of genius, sparkling with wit and
humor.
She arrived at Christiania at night, after three days’
voyage from Havre. She had been very seasick all
the time, but this did not prevent her—indefatigable
as she always was when in good spirits—from joining
the next day in a fëte and picnic which lasted far into
the night. All the most distinguished men present
thronged around her, and she was always on such
occasions most amiable and unassuming; so girlishly
soft in her manner that she took every one by storm.
We afterward made a trip together through
Tele-mark, where we visited Ulman’s Peasant High School,
in which Sönya became warmly interested. It was
this visit that gave rise to the article on " Peasant High
Schools " which she published in a Russian magazine.
The success of the article was so great that there
followed a large increase in the number of subscribers to
the journal.
From Sitijord we climbed a mountain on foot, and
it was certainly the first time that Sönya had ever
performed such a feat. She was very brisk and
indefatigable in climbing, and delighted in the beauty of
nature. She was full of joy and energy, her pleasure
being only now and then marred by fear of a cow near
one of the cheese-dairies, or by having to surmount
a heap of stones which rattled down under our feet,
when she uttered little childish shrieks and
exclamations which much amused the rest of the party. She
had a great appreciation of nature in so far as her
imagination and feelings were stirred by its poetry, by
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