Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

510 511 element in husbandry was to have been the laborer, greatly assisted him in this) that the sort of farming he was carryin ...

512 513 merely unattractive but revolting to him, and he could take no further interest in it. To this now was joined the presen ...

514 515 Chapter 25. In the Surovsky district there was no railway nor service of post horses, and Levin drove there with his own ...

516 517 full pails dragging at her shoulders. More women came on the scene from somewhere, young and handsome, middle-aged, old ...

518 519 peasant household made upon Levin, but the impression was so strong that Levin could never get rid of it. And all the wa ...

520 521 Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly de ...

522 523 his own life, to get at that secret in Sviazhsky that gave him such clearness, definiteness, and good courage in life. M ...

524 525 “Yes; I used to teach in it myself, and do teach still, but we have a first-rate schoolmistress now. And we’ve started g ...

526 527 Obviously the landowner was chaffing Sviazhsky, who, far from resenting it, was apparently amused by it. “But you see we ...

528 529 system, allow me to ask?” “There it is—the labor force—the chief element in agriculture,” thought Levin. “With laborers. ...

530 531 Moreover, this question on Levin’s part was not quite in good faith. Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that th ...

532 533 structing railways. They are ready, invented.” “But if they don’t do for us, if they’re stupid?” said Levin. And again h ...

534 535 “What are you looking at there?” he said to Levin, who was stand- ing at the round table looking through the reviews. “O ...

536 537 “Well, you’re saying it yourself! What’s wanted to prevent her taking her child to the hen-roost to cure it of screaming ...

538 539 here. Your and our general dissatisfaction with the system shows that either we are to blame or the laborers. We have go ...

540 541 the same great difficulty that they were so much absorbed by the current work of the day, that they had not time to cons ...

542 543 save you trouble, and we should be more free.” Moreover the same peasants kept putting off, on various excuses, the buil ...

544 545 You haven’t read them: they’ve thrashed that question out thoroughly.” He saw now distinctly that Kauffmann and Michelli ...

546 547 give some final directions on the estate before setting off. Having finished all his business, soaked through with the s ...

548 549 After writing for a little while, Levin suddenly thought with excep- tional vividness of Kitty, her refusal, and their l ...