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senselessness of such an attitude to his wife He did not

realize it, because it was too terrible to him to realize his

actual position, and he shut down and locked and sealed up in his

heart that secret place where lay hid his feelings towards his

family, that is, his wife and son He who had been such a

careful father, had froid to his son, and adopted to hi

tone he used with his wife "Aha, young

hich he met him

Alexey Alexandrovitch asserted and believed that he had never in

any previous year had so much official business as that year

But he was not aware that he sought work for hi shut that secret place

where lay hid his feelings towards his wife and son and his

thoughts about theer they

lay there If anyone had had the right to ask Alexey

Alexandrovitch what he thought of his wife's behavior, the mild

and peaceable Alexey Alexandrovitch would have ered with any man who should

question him on that subject For this reason there positively

cahtiness and

severity whenever anyone inquired after his wife's health

Alexey Alexandrovitch did not want to think at all about his

wife's behavior, and he actually succeeded in not thinking about

it at all