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Anna Karenina

deputation. He had his chief support in this affair in the
Countess Lidia Ivanovna. She was a specialist in the matter
of deputations, and no one knew better than she how to
manage them, and put them in the way they should go.

Having completed this task, Alexey Alexandrovitch wrote
the letter to the lawyer. Without the slightest hesitation he
gave him permission to act as he might judge best. In the
letter he enclosed three of Vronsky’s notes to Anna, which
were in the portfolio he had taken away.
Since Alexey Alexandrovitch had left home with the
intention of not returning to his family again, and since he
had been at the lawyer’s and had spoken, though only to
one man, of his intention, since especially he had
translated the matter from the world of real life to the
world of ink and paper, he had grown more and more
used to his own intention, and by now distinctly perceived
the feasibility of its execution.
He was sealing the envelope to the lawyer, when he
heard the loud tones of Stepan Arkadyevitch’s voice.
Stepan Arkadyevitch was disputing with Alexey
Alexandrovitch’s servant, and insisting on being
announced.
‘No matter,’ thought Alexey Alexandrovitch, ‘so much
the better. I will inform him at once of my position in

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