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steady view of thedrunk his second cup of tea with crea towards his study

"And you've not been anywhere this evening? You've been dull, I

expect?" he said

"Oh, no!" she answered, getting up after hi hi now?" she

asked

"Just now I' Duc de Lille, _Poésie des Enfers,_"

he answered "A very remarkable book"

Anna smiled, as people s her hand under his, she escorted hirown into a

necessity, of reading in the evening She knew, too, that in

spite of his official duties, which sed up almost the whole

of his ti

of note that appeared in the intellectual world She knew, too,

that he was really interested in books dealing with politics,

philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his

nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it,

Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of

art, butShe knew that in

politics, in philosophy, in theology, Alexey Alexandrovitch often

had doubts, and ations; but on questions of art and

poetry, and, above all, of , he had theabout Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven, of

the significance of new schools of poetry and music, all of which

were classified by him with very conspicuous consistency