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literary work to do, such as had hitherto occupied the greater

part of his tiey Ivanovitch was clever, cultivated, healthy, and energetic,

and he did not knohat use toroos, assemblies, and

committees--everywhere where talk was possible--took up part of

his ti used for years to town life, he did not

waste all his energies in talk, as his less experienced younger

brother did, when he was in Moscow He had a great deal of

leisure and intellectual energy still to dispose of

Fortunately for him, at this period so difficult for him from the

failure of his book, the various public questions of the

dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine,

of exhibitions, and of spiritualism, were definitely replaced in

public interest by the Slavonic question, which had hitherto

rather languidly interested society, and Sergey Ivanovitch, who

had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw hiey Ivanovitch belonged, nothing was

talked of or written about just now but the Servian War

Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time was done

now for the benefit of the Slavonic States Balls, concerts,

dinners,testified to sympathy with the Slavonic peoples