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Alexey
Alexandrovitch
grew
up
an
orphan
.
There
were
two
brothers
.
They
did
not
remember
their
father
,
and
their
mother
died
when
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
was
ten
years
old
.
The
property
was
a
small
one
.
Their
uncle
,
Karenin
,
a
government
official
of
high
standing
,
at
one
time
a
favorite
of
the
late
Tsar
,
had
brought
them
up
.
On
completing
his
high
school
and
university
courses
with
medals
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
had
,
with
his
uncle
’
s
aid
,
immediately
started
in
a
prominent
position
in
the
service
,
and
from
that
time
forward
he
had
devoted
himself
exclusively
to
political
ambition
.
In
the
high
school
and
the
university
,
and
afterwards
in
the
service
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
had
never
formed
a
close
friendship
with
anyone
.
His
brother
had
been
the
person
nearest
to
his
heart
,
but
he
had
a
post
in
the
Ministry
of
Foreign
Affairs
,
and
was
always
abroad
,
where
he
had
died
shortly
after
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
’
s
marriage
.
While
he
was
governor
of
a
province
,
Anna
’
s
aunt
,
a
wealthy
provincial
lady
,
had
thrown
him
—
middle
-
aged
as
he
was
,
though
young
for
a
governor
—
with
her
niece
,
and
had
succeeded
in
putting
him
in
such
a
position
that
he
had
either
to
declare
himself
or
to
leave
the
town
.
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
was
not
long
in
hesitation
.
There
were
at
the
time
as
many
reasons
for
the
step
as
against
it
,
and
there
was
no
overbalancing
consideration
to
outweigh
his
invariable
rule
of
abstaining
when
in
doubt
.
But
Anna
’
s
aunt
had
through
a
common
acquaintance
insinuated
that
he
had
already
compromised
the
girl
,
and
that
he
was
in
honor
bound
to
make
her
an
offer
.
He
made
the
offer
,
and
concentrated
on
his
betrothed
and
his
wife
all
the
feeling
of
which
he
was
capable
.
The
attachment
he
felt
to
Anna
precluded
in
his
heart
every
need
of
intimate
relations
with
others
.
And
now
among
all
his
acquaintances
he
had
not
one
friend
.
He
had
plenty
of
so
-
called
connections
,
but
no
friendships
.
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
had
plenty
of
people
whom
he
could
invite
to
dinner
,
to
whose
sympathy
he
could
appeal
in
any
public
affair
he
was
concerned
about
,
whose
interest
he
could
reckon
upon
for
anyone
he
wished
to
help
,
with
whom
he
could
candidly
discuss
other
people
’
s
business
and
affairs
of
state
.
But
his
relations
with
these
people
were
confined
to
one
clearly
defined
channel
,
and
had
a
certain
routine
from
which
it
was
impossible
to
depart
.
There
was
one
man
,
a
comrade
of
his
at
the
university
,
with
whom
he
had
made
friends
later
,
and
with
whom
he
could
have
spoken
of
a
personal
sorrow
;
but
this
friend
had
a
post
in
the
Department
of
Education
in
a
remote
part
of
Russia
.
Of
the
people
in
Petersburg
the
most
intimate
and
most
possible
were
his
chief
secretary
and
his
doctor
.
Mihail
Vassilievitch
Sludin
,
the
chief
secretary
,
was
a
straightforward
,
intelligent
,
good
-
hearted
,
and
conscientious
man
,
and
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
was
aware
of
his
personal
goodwill
But
their
five
years
of
official
work
together
seemed
to
have
put
a
barrier
between
them
that
cut
off
warmer
relations
.
After
signing
the
papers
brought
him
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
had
sat
for
a
long
while
in
silence
,
glancing
at
Mihail
Vassilievitch
,
and
several
times
he
attempted
to
speak
,
but
could
not
.
He
had
already
prepared
the
phrase
:
“
You
have
heard
of
my
trouble
?
”
But
he
ended
by
saying
,
as
usual
:
“
So
you
’
ll
get
this
ready
for
me
?
”
and
with
that
dismissed
him
.
The
other
person
was
the
doctor
,
who
had
also
a
kindly
feeling
for
him
;
but
there
had
long
existed
a
taciturn
understanding
between
them
that
both
were
weighed
down
by
work
,
and
always
in
a
hurry
.
Of
his
women
friends
,
foremost
amongst
them
Countess
Lidia
Ivanovna
,
Alexey
Alexandrovitch
never
thought
.
All
women
,
simply
as
women
,
were
terrible
and
distasteful
to
him
.
