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Anna Karenina

‘Impossible! If he knew anyone, he would have known
me,’ said Kitty, in response to Agafea Mihalovna’s
statement, and she smiled.
She smiled because, though she said he could not know

her, in her heart she was sure that he knew not merely
Agafea Mihalovna, but that he knew and understood
everything, and knew and understood a great deal too that
no one else knew, and that she, his mother, had learned
and come to understand only through him. To Agafea
Mihalovna, to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father
even, Mitya was a living being, requiring only materiel
care, but for his mother he had long been a mortal being,
with whom there had been a whole series of spiritual
relations already.
‘When he wakes up, please God, you shall see for
yourself. Then when I do like this, he simply beams on
me, the darling! Simply beams like a sunny day!’ said
Agafea Mihalovna.
‘Well, well then we shall see,’ whispered Kitty. ‘But
now go away, he’s going to sleep.’

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