" But give me him quickly.

Oh, nurse, how tiresome you are! There, tie the cap afterwards, do!" The baby's greedy scream was passing into sobs.

"But you can't manage so, ma'am," said Agafea Mihalovna, who was almost always to be found in the nursery.

" He must be put straight.

A-oo! a-oo!" she chanted over him, paying no attention to the mother.