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As a fact, the boy did feel that he could not understand this

relation, and he tried painfully, and was not able to make clear

to himself what feeling he ought to have for this man. With a

child's keen instinct for every manifestation of feeling, he saw

distinctly that his father, his governess, his nurse,-all did not

merely dislike Vronsky, but looked on him with horror and

aversion, though they never said anything about him, while his

mother looked on him as her greatest friend.