Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART FIVE CHAPTER 29
“I won’t cry...I’m crying for joy. It’s so long since I’ve seen you. I won’t, I won’t,”
she said, gulping down her tears and turning away. “Come, it’s time for you to dress
now,” she added, after a pause, and, never letting go his hands, she sat down by his
bedside on the chair, where his clothes were put ready for him.
“How do you dress without me? How...” she tried to begin talking simply and
cheerfully, but she could not, and again she turned away.
“I don’t have a cold bath, papa didn’t order it. And you’ve not seen Vassily Lukitch?
He’ll come in soon. Why, you’re sitting on my clothes!”
And Seryozha went off into a peal of laughter. She looked at him and smiled.
“Mother, darling, sweet one!” he shouted, flinging himself on her again and hugging
her. It was as though only now, on seeing her smile, he fully grasped what had
happened.
“I don’t want that on,” he said, taking off her hat. And as it were, seeing her afresh
without her hat, he fell to kissing her again.
“But what did you think about me? You didn’t think I was dead?”
“I never believed it.”
“You didn’t believe it, my sweet?”
“I knew, I knew!” he repeated his favorite phrase, and snatching the hand that
was stroking his hair, he pressed the open palm to his mouth and kissed it.
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