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| | Chapter 2: The Nest of Gentlefolk |
 | | If the nest has produced children, they are not his, and he is as estranged from Ada, the one child he might have claimed, as he is from her mother. |
 | | The circle of the nest is bounded by the circle of nature itself, the noblemans estate. |
 | | The boredom of the nest, which drove his father to the West, reconciles Lavretsky to Russia as it is; there is something for the nobleman to do in this countryside work, which is integral to it. |
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