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Alexey Alexandrovitch, afterVronsky on his own steps,

drove, as he had intended, to the Italian opera He sat

through two acts there, and saw everyone he had wanted to see

On returning ho that there was not a military overcoat there, he went,

as usual, to his own rooo to bed, he walked up and down his study till three

o'clock in the er with his

wife, ould not observe the proprieties and keep to the one

stipulation he had laid on her, not to receive her lover in her

own hoave him no peace She had not complied with his

request, and he was bound to punish her and carry out his

threat--obtain a divorce and take away his son He knew all the

difficulties connected with this course, but he had said he would

do it, and now he must carry out his threat Countess Lidia

Ivanovna had hinted that this was the best way out of his

position, and of late the obtaining of divorces had been brought

to such perfection that Alexey Alexandrovitch saw a possibility

of overcoly, and the affairs of the reorganization of the native

tribes, and of the irrigation of the lands of the Zaraisky