1 "A fine midwife your Prissy will make," Scarlett remarked caustically.
2 Marija went on to tell how she had tried to find a midwife, and how they had demanded ten, fifteen, even twenty-five dollars, and that in cash.
3 Also Madame Haupt, the midwife, was after him for some money.
4 In the drawing room there was no one; at the sound of his steps there came out of her boudoir the midwife in a cap with lilac ribbons.
5 Trying not to get flurried or out of temper, Levin mentioned the names of the doctor and midwife, and explaining what the opium was needed for, tried to persuade him.
6 The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump white hands with an air of calm importance.
7 A trained midwife was engaged for Bogucharovo at his expense, and a priest was paid to teach reading and writing to the children of the peasants and household serfs.