The birth, the agony, the hideous agonies, that last moment...then the nursing, the sleepless nights, the fearful pains....

" Darya Alexandrovna shuddered at the mere recollection of the pain from sore breasts which she had suffered with almost every child.

"Then the children's illnesses, that everlasting apprehension; then bringing them up; evil propensities" (she thought of little Masha's crime among the raspberries), "education, Latin--it's all so incomprehensible and difficult.