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Anna Karenina

rival department of the measures that had been taken
during the last ten years by that department for averting
the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were
now placed; and fourthly and finally, that that department

explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence before
the committee, from No. 17,015 and 18,038, from
December 5, 1863, and June 7, 1864, acted in direct
contravention of the intent of the law T...Act 18, and the
note to Act 36. A flash of eagerness suffused the face of
Alexey Alexandrovitch as he rapidly wrote out a synopsis
of these ideas for his own benefit. Having filled a sheet of
paper, he got up, rang, and sent a note to the chief
secretary of his department to look up certain necessary
facts for him. Getting up and walking about the room, he
glanced again at the portrait, frowned, and smiled
contemptuously. After reading a little more of the book
on Egyptian hieroglyphics, and renewing his interest in it,
Alexey Alexandrovitch went to bed at eleven o’clock, and
recollecting as he lay in bed the incident with his wife, he
saw it now in by no means such a gloomy light.

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