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`` At five o'clock , then , and not evening dress . '' And Stepan Arkadyevitch got up and went down below to the new head of his department . Instinct had not misled Stepan Arkadyevitch . The terrible new head turned out to be an extremely amenable person , and Stepan Arkadyevitch lunched with him and stayed on , so that it was four o'clock before he got to Alexey Alexandrovitch . Alexey Alexandrovitch , on coming back from church service , had spent the whole morning indoors . He had two pieces of business before him that morning ; first , to receive and send on a deputation from the native tribes which was on its way to Petersburg , and now at Moscow ; secondly , to write the promised letter to the lawyer . The deputation , though it had been summoned at Alexey Alexandrovitch 's instigation , was not without its discomforting and even dangerous aspect , and he was glad he had found it in Moscow .