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Anna Karenina

‘I don’t have a cold bath, papa didn’t order it. And
you’ve not seen Vassily Lukitch? He’ll come in soon.
Why, you’re sitting on my clothes!’
And Seryozha went off into a peal of laughter. She

looked at him and smiled.
‘Mother, darling, sweet one!’ he shouted, flinging
himself on her again and hugging her. It was as though
only now, on seeing her smile, he fully grasped what had
happened.
‘I don’t want that on,’ he said, taking off her hat. And
as it were, seeing her afresh without her hat, he fell to
kissing her again.
‘But what did you think about me? You didn’t think I
was dead?’
‘I never believed it.’
‘You didn’t believe it, my sweet?’
‘I knew, I knew!’ he repeated his favorite phrase, and
snatching the hand that was stroking his hair, he pressed
the open palm to his mouth and kissed it.

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