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Anna Karenina

‘Come, that’s enough, that’s enough!’ said Lizaveta
Petrovna, but Kitty would not let the baby go. He fell
asleep in her arms.
‘Look, now,’ said Kitty, turning the baby so that he

could see it. The aged-looking little face suddenly
puckered up still more and the baby sneezed.
Smiling, hardly able to restrain his tears, Levin kissed
his wife and went out of the dark room. What he felt
towards this little creature was utterly unlike what he had
expected. There was nothing cheerful and joyous in the
feeling; on the contrary, it was a new torture of
apprehension. It was the consciousness of a new sphere of
liability to pain. And this sense was so painful at first, the
apprehension lest this helpless creature should suffer was so
intense, that it prevented him from noticing the strange
thrill of senseless joy and even pride that he had felt when
the baby sneezed.

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