ABSTRACT
“. . . from this crude simulacrum of a human being one looked for no more than an animal’s response. But again she was surprised. The child, leaving the nurse’s side, moved into motion as if sucking-in a long tube of paste, her whole face was gradually caught up in an expression that seemed unquestionably human—the look of a greedy old woman, mischievous without the light of humour, shameless and sly. She gave a little cry like a bird’s imitation of human laughter. In one movement she dropped to a squatting position, stretched both her hands to seize the one which Stepan held out to her, pulled it to her face and fastened her teeth in the flesh below his thumb”
