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“
At
our
last
conversation
,
I
notified
you
of
my
intention
to
communicate
to
you
my
decision
in
regard
to
the
subject
of
that
conversation
.
Having
carefully
considered
everything
,
I
am
writing
now
with
the
object
of
fulfilling
that
promise
.
My
decision
is
as
follows
.
Whatever
your
conduct
may
have
been
,
I
do
not
consider
myself
justified
in
breaking
the
ties
in
which
we
are
bound
by
a
Higher
Power
.
The
family
cannot
be
broken
up
by
a
whim
,
a
caprice
,
or
even
by
the
sin
of
one
of
the
partners
in
the
marriage
,
and
our
life
must
go
on
as
it
has
done
in
the
past
.
This
is
essential
for
me
,
for
you
,
and
for
our
son
.
I
am
fully
persuaded
that
you
have
repented
and
do
repent
of
what
has
called
forth
the
present
letter
,
and
that
you
will
cooperate
with
me
in
eradicating
the
cause
of
our
estrangement
,
and
forgetting
the
past
.
In
the
contrary
event
,
you
can
conjecture
what
awaits
you
and
your
son
.
All
this
I
hope
to
discuss
more
in
detail
in
a
personal
interview
.
As
the
season
is
drawing
to
a
close
,
I
would
beg
you
to
return
to
Petersburg
as
quickly
as
possible
,
not
later
than
Tuesday
.
All
necessary
preparations
shall
be
made
for
your
arrival
here
.
I
beg
you
to
note
that
I
attach
particular
significance
to
compliance
with
this
request
.
A
.
Karenin
“
P
.
S
.
—
I
enclose
the
money
which
may
be
needed
for
your
expenses
.
”
He
read
the
letter
through
and
felt
pleased
with
it
,
and
especially
that
he
had
remembered
to
enclose
money
:
there
was
not
a
harsh
word
,
not
a
reproach
in
it
,
nor
was
there
undue
indulgence
.
Most
of
all
,
it
was
a
golden
bridge
for
return
.
Folding
the
letter
and
smoothing
it
with
a
massive
ivory
knife
,
and
putting
it
in
an
envelope
with
the
money
,
he
rang
the
bell
with
the
gratification
it
always
afforded
him
to
use
the
well
arranged
appointments
of
his
writing
-
table
.
“
Give
this
to
the
courier
to
be
delivered
to
Anna
Arkadyevna
tomorrow
at
the
summer
villa
,
”
he
said
,
getting
up
.
“
Certainly
,
your
excellency
;
tea
to
be
served
in
the
study
?
”
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
ordered
tea
to
be
brought
to
the
study
,
and
playing
with
the
massive
paper
-
knife
,
he
moved
to
his
easy
chair
,
near
which
there
had
been
placed
ready
for
him
a
lamp
and
the
French
work
on
Egyptian
hieroglyphics
that
he
had
begun
.
Over
the
easy
chair
there
hung
in
a
gold
frame
an
oval
portrait
of
Anna
,
a
fine
painting
by
a
celebrated
artist
.
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
glanced
at
it
.
The
unfathomable
eyes
gazed
ironically
and
insolently
at
him
.
Insufferably
insolent
and
challenging
was
the
effect
in
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
eyes
of
the
black
lace
about
the
head
,
admirably
touched
in
by
the
painter
,
the
black
hair
and
handsome
white
hand
with
one
finger
lifted
,
covered
with
rings
.
After
looking
at
the
portrait
for
a
minute
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
shuddered
so
that
his
lips
quivered
and
he
uttered
the
sound
“
brrr
,
”
and
turned
away
.
He
made
haste
to
sit
down
in
his
easy
chair
and
opened
the
book
.
He
tried
to
read
,
but
he
could
not
revive
the
very
vivid
interest
he
had
felt
before
in
Egyptian
hieroglyphics
.
He
looked
at
the
book
and
thought
of
something
else
.
He
thought
not
of
his
wife
,
but
of
a
complication
that
had
arisen
in
his
official
life
,
which
at
the
time
constituted
the
chief
interest
of
it
.
He
felt
that
he
had
penetrated
more
deeply
than
ever
before
into
this
intricate
affair
,
and
that
he
had
originated
a
leading
idea
—
he
could
say
it
without
self
-
flattery
—
calculated
to
clear
up
the
whole
business
,
to
strengthen
him
in
his
official
career
,
to
discomfit
his
enemies
,
and
thereby
to
be
of
the
greatest
benefit
to
the
government
.
Directly
the
servant
had
set
the
tea
and
left
the
room
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
got
up
and
went
to
the
writing
-
table
.
Moving
into
the
middle
of
the
table
a
portfolio
of
papers
,
with
a
scarcely
perceptible
smile
of
self
-
satisfaction
,
he
took
a
pencil
from
a
rack
and
plunged
into
the
perusal
of
a
complex
report
relating
to
the
present
complication
.
The
complication
was
of
this
nature
:
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
characteristic
quality
as
a
politician
,
that
special
individual
qualification
that
every
rising
functionary
possesses
,
the
qualification
that
with
his
unflagging
ambition
,
his
reserve
,
his
honesty
,
and
with
his
self
-
confidence
had
made
his
career
,
was
his
contempt
for
red
tape
,
his
cutting
down
of
correspondence
,
his
direct
contact
,
wherever
possible
,
with
the
living
fact
,
and
his
economy
.
It
happened
that
the
famous
Commission
of
the
2nd
of
June
had
set
on
foot
an
inquiry
into
the
irrigation
of
lands
in
the
Zaraisky
province
,
which
fell
under
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
department
,
and
was
a
glaring
example
of
fruitless
expenditure
and
paper
reforms
.
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
was
aware
of
the
truth
of
this
.
The
irrigation
of
these
lands
in
the
Zaraisky
province
had
been
initiated
by
the
predecessor
of
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
predecessor
.
And
vast
sums
of
money
had
actually
been
spent
and
were
still
being
spent
on
this
business
,
and
utterly
unproductively
,
and
the
whole
business
could
obviously
lead
to
nothing
whatever
.
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
had
perceived
this
at
once
on
entering
office
,
and
would
have
liked
to
lay
hands
on
the
Board
of
Irrigation
.
But
at
first
,
when
he
did
not
yet
feel
secure
in
his
position
,
he
knew
it
would
affect
too
many
interests
,
and
would
be
injudicious
.
Later
on
he
had
been
engrossed
in
other
questions
,
and
had
simply
forgotten
the
Board
of
Irrigation
.
It
went
of
itself
,
like
all
such
boards
,
by
the
mere
force
of
inertia
.
(
Many
people
gained
their
livelihood
by
the
Board
of
Irrigation
,
especially
one
highly
conscientious
and
musical
family
:
all
the
daughters
played
on
stringed
instruments
,
and
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
knew
the
family
and
had
stood
godfather
to
one
of
the
elder
daughters
.
)
The
raising
of
this
question
by
a
hostile
department
was
in
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
opinion
a
dishonorable
proceeding
,
seeing
that
in
every
department
there
were
things
similar
and
worse
,
which
no
one
inquired
into
,
for
well
-
known
reasons
of
official
etiquette
.
However
,
now
that
the
glove
had
been
thrown
down
to
him
,
he
had
boldly
picked
it
up
and
demanded
the
appointment
of
a
special
commission
to
investigate
and
verify
the
working
of
the
Board
of
Irrigation
of
the
lands
in
the
Zaraisky
province
.
But
in
compensation
he
gave
no
quarter
to
the
enemy
either
.
He
demanded
the
appointment
of
another
special
commission
to
inquire
into
the
question
of
the
Native
Tribes
Organization
Committee
.
The
question
of
the
Native
Tribes
had
been
brought
up
incidentally
in
the
Commission
of
the
2nd
of
June
,
and
had
been
pressed
forward
actively
by
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
as
one
admitting
of
no
delay
on
account
of
the
deplorable
condition
of
the
native
tribes
.
In
the
commission
this
question
had
been
a
ground
of
contention
between
several
departments
.
