1 His mother he did not reckon upon.
2 Your mother was asleep in the corner.
3 There he found his mother, who had come from Moscow on business.
4 Every woman of full, graceful figure with dark hair was his mother.
5 When the candle was taken away, Seryozha heard and felt his mother.
6 Her mother and father had consented without demur, and were happy in her happiness.
7 They did not remember their father, and their mother died when Alexey Alexandrovitch was ten years old.
8 But the embraces of the mother and child, the sound of their voices, and what they were saying, made him change his mind.
9 The divorced mother would have her own illegitimate family, in which his position as a stepson and his education would not be good.
10 Seryozha, with radiant eyes and smiles, holding his mother by one hand and his nurse by the other, pattered on the rug with his fat little bare feet.
11 When the nurse went into the nursery, Seryozha was telling his mother how he and Nadinka had had a fall in sledging downhill, and had turned over three times.
12 In their conversation everything had been said; it had been said that she loved him, and that she would tell her father and mother that he would come tomorrow morning.
13 His mother and sister-in-law greeted him as usual: they asked him about his stay abroad, and talked of their common acquaintances, but did not let drop a single word in allusion to his connection with Anna.
14 Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.
15 Of his mother Seryozha did not think all the evening, but when he had gone to bed, he suddenly remembered her, and prayed in his own words that his mother tomorrow for his birthday might leave off hiding herself and come to him.
16 Reflecting finally that his duty was to get Seryozha up at the hour fixed, and that it was therefore not his business to consider who was there, the mother or anyone else, but simply to do his duty, he finished dressing, went to the door and opened it.
17 Meanwhile Vassily Lukitch had not at first understood who this lady was, and had learned from their conversation that it was no other person than the mother who had left her husband, and whom he had not seen, as he had entered the house after her departure.
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