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Anna Karenina

Chapter 26

‘Well, Kapitonitch?’ said Seryozha, coming back rosy
and good- humored from his walk the day before his
birthday, and giving his overcoat to the tall old hall porter,
who smiled down at the little person from the height of
his long figure. ‘Well, has the bandaged clerk been here
today? Did papa see him?’
‘He saw him. The minute the chief secretary came out,
I announced him,’ said the hall porter with a good-
humored wink. ‘Here, I’ll take it off.’
‘Seryozha!’ said the tutor, stopping in the doorway
leading to the inner rooms. ‘Take it off yourself.’ But
Seryozha, though he heard his tutor’s feeble voice, did not
pay attention to it. He stood keeping hold of the hall
porter’s belt, and gazing into his face.
‘Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him?’
The hall porter nodded his head affirmatively. The
clerk with his face tied up, who had already been seven
times to ask some favor of Alexey Alexandrovitch,
interested both Seryozha and the hall porter. Seryozha had
come upon him in the hall, and had heard him plaintively

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