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Anna Karenina

child....’ Alexey Alexandrovitch began expounding his
views on the sole question that interested him besides the
service—the education of his son.
When Alexey Alexandrovitch with Lidia Ivanovna’s

help had been brought back anew to life and activity, he
felt it his duty to undertake the education of the son left
on his hands. Having never before taken any interest in
educational questions, Alexey Alexandrovitch devoted
some time to the theoretical study of the subject. After
reading several books on anthropology, education, and
didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of
education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to
superintend it, he set to work, and the subject continually
absorbed him.
‘Yes, but the heart. I see in him his father’s heart, and
with such a heart a child cannot go far wrong,’ said Lidia
Ivanovna with enthusiasm.
‘Yes, perhaps.... As for me, I do my duty. It’s all I can
do.’
‘You’re coming to me,’ said Countess Lidia Ivanovna,
after a pause; ‘we have to speak of a subject painful for
you. I would give anything to have spared you certain
memories, but others are not of the same mind. I have
received a letter from HER. SHE is here in Petersburg.’

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