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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
her giving up all work; on laying down her pen in the
middle of a sentence in order to nurse herself, for she had
confessed to a rapidly increasing indisposition. In vain she
exclaimed, " Oh, no! I have still so much to write!" She
was obliged to yield to her husband’s entreaties, and laid
down her pen — never to take it up again. That pen had
just corrected the last proofs of " Sönya Kovalévsky."
Anna Carlotta had been seized with acute peritonitis,
and, in spite of all efforts on the part of physicians, and the
most tender nursing, succumbed to the terrible malady five
days later, on the 21st of October, 1893, at the age of only
forty-one years.
Anna Carlotta Leffler, Duchess of Cajanello, was more
than a distinguished writer. She was a woman void of
vanity and pretense, utterly sincere; strong, but not
violent; possessed of great moral courage; of a calm, cheerful,
sanguine disposition ; of perfect sanity of mind and of body;
regarding the problems of human life in such a simple
manner as excited the admiration of her friends. She knew
nothing of the hysterics and vagaries of the " new woman,"
and, more than all else, she possessed a thoroughly kind
heart, and was so sweet and loving that those who knew
her well forgot the genius in the perfect woman. Her ideal
of happiness in this world had been realized. She had
arrived at the summit of her desires,— husband, child, a happy
home, a true sphere of work,— and ceased to be.
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