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When Anna went into the roo-room with a white-headed fat little boy, already like his

father, giving hi As the boy read,

he kept twisting and trying to tear off a button that was nearly

off his jacket His mother had several times taken his hand froain His

mother pulled the button off and put it in her pocket

"Keep your hands still, Grisha," she said, and she took up her

work, a coverlet she had long beenShe always set to

work on it at depressedher fingers and counting the stitches

Though she had sent word the day before to her husband that it

was nothing to her whether his sister ca ready for her arrival, and was expecting her

sister-in-laith emotion

Dolly was crushed by her sorrow, utterly sed up by it

Still she did not forget that Anna, her sister-in-laas the

wife of one of the , and

was a Petersburg _grande dame_ And, thanks to this circumstance,

she did not carry out her threat to her husband--that is to say,

she re "And, after

all, Anna is in no wise to bla of her except the very best, and I have seen nothing but