1 Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute.
2 Stepan Arkadyevitch put on his fur coat and went out onto the steps.
3 Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.
4 Half Moscow and Petersburg were friends and relations of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
5 Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking-glass.
6 Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself.
7 Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, wiped his face, and with a subdued tread walked out of the room.
8 Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
9 Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
10 The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.
11 Stepan Arkadyevitch had learned easily at school, thanks to his excellent abilities, but he had been idle and mischievous, and therefore was one of the lowest in his class.
12 Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
13 Stepan Arkadyevitch was already washed and combed and ready to be dressed, when Matvey, stepping deliberately in his creaky boots, came back into the room with the telegram in his hand.
14 When he had finished his letters, Stepan Arkadyevitch moved the office-papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee.
15 Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
16 The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
17 "Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily.
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