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Pravdin was a well-known Panslavist abroad, and Countess Lidia

Ivanovna described the purport of his letter

Then the countess told her of ainst the work of the unification of the churches, and departed

in haste, as she had that day to be at theof some

society and also at the Slavonic committee

"It was all the same before, of course; but as it I didn't

notice it before?" Anna asked herself "Or has she been very

much irritated today? It's really ludicrous; her object is doing

good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has

ene

good"

After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend came, the wife of a

chief secretary, who told her all the news of the town At three

o'clock she too went away, pro to come to dinner Alexey

Alexandrovitch was at the ministry Anna, left alone, spent the

ti at her son's dinner (he dined apart

fros in order, and in