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With his habitual control over his thoughts, though he thought

all this about his wife, he did not let his thoughts stray

further in regard to her

Thatwas a very full one for Alexey Alexandrovitch The

evening before, Countess Lidia Ivanovna had sent him a pa in Petersburg,

and with it she enclosed a note begging him to see the traveler

hi person from various

points of view, and likely to be useful Alexey Alexandrovitch

had not had ti, and

finished it in thewith

petitions, and there came the reports, interviews, appointrants, notes,

the workaday round, as Alexey Alexandrovitch called it, that

always took up so much time Then there was private business of

his own, a visit froed his

property The steward did not take up ave

Alexey Alexandrovitch the ether with a brief

stateether satisfactory, as it had happened that during that

year, owing to increased expenses, more had been paid out than