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Anna Karenina

‘Oh, I didn’t say anything.’
‘You go to them, darling,’ said Kitty to her sister, ‘and
entertain them. They saw Stiva at the station; he was quite
well. And I must run to Mitya. As ill-luck would have it, I

haven’t fed him since tea. He’s awake now, and sure to be
screaming.’ And feeling a rush of milk, she hurried to the
nursery.
This was not a mere guess; her connection with the
child was still so close, that she could gauge by the flow of
her milk his need of food, and knew for certain he was
hungry.
She knew he was crying before she reached the
nursery. And he was indeed crying. She heard him and
hastened. But the faster she went, the louder he screamed.
It was a fine healthy scream, hungry and impatient.
‘Has he been screaming long, nurse, very long?’ said
Kitty hurriedly, seating herself on a chair, and preparing to
give the baby the breast. ‘But give me him quickly. Oh,
nurse, how tiresome you are! There, tie the cap
afterwards, dol.’
The baby’s greedy scream was passing into sobs.
‘But you can’t manage so, ma’am,’ said Agafea
Mihalovna, who was almost always to be found in the

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