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RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD 101
interests, and I had a passionate desire to understand
precisely what it was all about. Almost every time that
I happened to run unexpectedly into Aniuta’s room,
I found her at her writing-table engaged in writing.
Several times I tried to make her tell me what she was
writing, but as Aniuta had already received several
scoldings from the goveruess for not only having
deserted the right path herself, but for trying to corrupt
her sister also, she was afraid of more reproaches, and
always drove me away. "Ah, go away; do, please.
Margarita Frautzovna will catch you here again.
Then we shall both catch it," she said impatiently.
I returned to the school-room with a feeling of
vexation and irritation against my governess, on whose
account my sister would tell me nothing. The poor
Englishwoman found it harder and harder to get on
with her pupil. From the conversations which went
011 at dinner I gathered chiefly that it was no longer
the fashion to heed one’s elders. As a result the
sentiment of subordination was considerably
weakened in me. My quarrel with the governess now
took place almost every day, and after one
particularly stormy scene the latter announced that she
would no longer stay with us.
As this threat had often been repeated before this
I paid no great attention to it at first. This time,
however, it turned out that she was in earnest. On
the one hand the governess had gone too far, and
could not honorably renounce her threat; on the
other hand these continual scenes and rows had so
wearied every one that my parents did not try to 1
retain her, in the hope that the house would be more
peaceful without her.
But, to the very end, I did not believe that the
governess would go away until the very day of her
departure dawned at last.
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