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Alexey Alexandrovitch, on co indoors He had two pieces of business

before hi; first, to receive and send on a

deputation fro, and now at Moscow; secondly, to write the proh it had been

suation, was not without

its discolad he

had found it in Moscow The htest conception of their duty and the part they were to

play They naïvely believed that it was their business to lay

before the cos, and to ask assistance of the governrasp that some of their statements and requests

supported the contention of the enemy's side, and so spoiled the

whole business Alexey Alexandrovitch was busily engaged with

theram for the theuidance of the deputation He had his chief

support in this affair in the Countess Lidia Ivanovna She was a

specialist in the matter of deputations, and no one knew better

than she how tocompleted this task, Alexey Alexandrovitch wrote the

letter to the lawyer Without the slightest hesitation he gave

hie best In the letter he