Sayfa 734 / 2288

On the Sunday in St. Peter's week Darya Alexandrovna drove to

mass for all her children to take the sacrament. Darya

Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her

sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by

the freedom of her views in regard to religion. She had a strange

religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had

firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the

Church. But in her family she was strict in carrying out all that

was required by the Church-and not merely in order to set an

example, but with all her heart in it. The fact that the children

had not been at the sacrament for nearly a year worried her

extremely, and with the full approval and sympathy of Marya

Philimonovna she decided that this should take place now in the

summer.