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Anna Karenina

something long familiar, and the very thing that was not
needed. But Alexey Alexandrovitch was not aware of this,
and, on the contrary, being cut off from direct
participation in governmental activity, he saw more clearly

than ever the errors and defects in the action of others, and
thought it his duty to point out means for their correction.
Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing
his first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the
endless series of notes he was destined to write in the
future.
Alexey Alexandrovitch did not merely fail to observe
his hopeless position in the official world, he was not
merely free from anxiety on this head, he was positively
more satisfied than ever with his own activity.
‘He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong
to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is
married careth for the things that are of the world, how he
may please his wife,’ says the Apostle Paul, and Alexey
Alexandrovitch, who was now guided in every action by
Scripture, often recalled this text. It seemed to him that
ever since he had been left without a wife, he had in these
very projects of reform been serving the Lord more
zealously than before.

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