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Anna Karenina

It seemed to him that he had an answer to this
question; but he had not time to formulate it to himself
before he went into the nursery.
Kitty was standing with her sleeves tucked up over the

baby in the bath. Hearing her husband’s footstep, she
turned towards him, summoning him to her with her
smile. With one hand she was supporting the fat baby that
lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the other
she squeezed the sponge over him.
‘Come, look, look!’ she said, when her husband came
up to her. ‘Agafea Mihalovna’s right. He knows us!’
Mitya had on that day given unmistakable,
incontestable signs of recognizing all his friends.
As soon as Levin approached the bath, the experiment
was tried, and it was completely successful. The cook, sent
for with this object, bent over the baby. He frowned and
shook his head disapprovingly. Kitty bent down to him,
he gave her a beaming smile, propped his little hands on
the sponge and chirruped, making such a queer little
contented sound with his lips, that Kitty and the nurse
were not alone in their admiration. Levin, too, was
surprised and delighted.

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