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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
Petersburg and brought thence the very newest ideas.
More than that, he had had the happiness to see with
his own eyes, only from a distance, it is true, many
of those great people whom all the young people of
the period adored. This was quite sufficient to render
him extremely interesting and attractive. But, in
addition to this, Aniuta could, thanks to him, get
possession of various books otherwise inaccessible to her.
Only the most stately and solid periodicals were
taken in our house — the " Revue des Deux Mondes"
and the "Athenaeum" among foreign journals, the
" Russian Messenger" among Russian journals. By
way of a great concession to the spirit of the times,
father had consented that year to subscribe to the
" Epoch," of Dostoévsky. But Aniuta began to get
journals of another stamp from the priest’s son —
"The Contemporary," "The Russian Word," each
number of which was considered the event of the
day by the young people of the period. One day lie
even brought her a copy of Hertzen’s prohibited
"Kölokol" (The Bell).
I cannot say that Aniuta accepted all the new ideas
which her friend preached to her at once and without
criticism. Many of them disturbed her, seemed to her
exaggerated; she revolted against them and argued.
But in every instance, under the influence of her
conversations with the priest’s son, and of the perusal of
the books which he provided for her, she developed
very quickly, and changed, not day by day, but hour
by hour.
By the autumn the priest’s son had succeeded in
quarreling so thoroughly with his father that the
latter requested him to depart, and not to return on the
next holidays. But the seeds which he had sown in
Aniuta’s brain continued to grow and develop.
Even her outward appearance was changed. She
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