Sonya Kovalevsky a Biography Sisters Rajevsky Being An Account of Her Own
Sonya Kovalevsky a Biography Sisters Rajevsky Being An Account of Her Own
Anne Charlotte Leffler
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The three beds, with latticed sides, stood side by- side, so that in the morning the children could creep from one to another without touching the ground with their feet. A little way off was Njanja's bed, piled up with a whole mountain of bolsters and pillows. This was Njanja's pride. Sometimes in the daytime, when she was in a good humour, she gave the children leave to jump and roll upon it. They climbed on to it with the help of chairs, but scarcely had they succeeded in boarding the top of... the pile than it gave way under their weight, and they sunk down in a perfect ocean of pillows to their great delight and happiness. In the nursery there was always a peculiar smell, a mixture of incense, of reeking tallow smoke, and of coarse fir oil and birch balsam, which Njanja used for her rheuma- tism. The governess, that horrid Frenchwoman, could THE SISTERS RAJEVSKY. 181 never come into the nursery without holding her hand- kerchief to her nose and mouth in disgust. " Do open the window, Njanja, " she would say in broken Russian.
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