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Alexey Alexandrovitch's permanent summer villa was in Peterhof,

and the Countess Lidia Ivanovna used as a rule to spend the

su her That

year Countess Lidia Ivanovna declined to settle in Peterhof, was

not once at Anna Arkadyevna's, and in conversation with Alexey

Alexandrovitch hinted at the unsuitability of Anna's close

intimacy with Betsy and Vronsky Alexey Alexandrovitch sternly

cut her short, roundly declaring his wife to be above suspicion,

and froan to avoid Countess Lidia Ivanovna He

did not want to see, and did not see, that lances on his wife; he did not want to understand,

and did not understand, why his wife had so particularly insisted

on staying at Tsarskoe, where Betsy was staying, and not far froiment He did not allow himself to

think about it, and he did not think about it; but all the sah he never admitted it to himself, and had no proofs, not

even suspicious evidence, in the bottom of his heart he knew

beyond all doubt that he was a deceived husband, and he was

profoundly ht years of happy life with his wife

Alexey Alexandrovitch had looked at other men's faithless wives