idently quite misunderstood, andapparently intentionally misunderstood, th bobbi billard naked ng tothem all the advantages of the plan, Levin felt that thepeasants heard nothing but the sound of his voice, andwere firmly resolved, whatever he might say, not to letthemselves be taken in. He felt this especially when hetalked to the cleverest of the peasants, Ryezunov, anddetected the gleam in Ryezunovs ey bobbi billard naked es which showed soplainly both ironical amusement at Levin, and the firmconviction that, if any one were to be taken in, it wouldnot be he, Ryezunov. But in spite of all this Levin748 of 1759
Anna Kareninathought the system worked, and that by keeping accountsstrictly and insisting on his own way, he would prove tothem in the future the advantages of the arrangement, andthen the system would go of itself.These matters, together with the management of theland still left on his hands, and the indoor work over hisbook, so engrossed Levin the whole summer that hescarcely ever went out shooting. At the end of August heheard that the Oblonskys had gone away to Moscow,from their servant who brought back the side-saddle. Hefelt that in not answering Darya Alexandrovnas letter hehad by his rudeness, of which he could not think withouta flush of shame, burned his ships, and that he wouldnever go and see them again. He had been just as rudewith the Sviazhskys, leaving them without saying goodbye. But he would never go to see them again either. Hedid not care about that now. The business of reorganizingthe farming of his land absorbed him as completely asthough there would never be anything else in his life. Heread the books lent him by Sviazhsky, and copying outwhat he had not got, he read both the economic andsocialistic books on the subject, but, as he had anticipated,found nothing bearing on the scheme he had undertaken.In the books on political economy—in Mill, for instance,749 of 1759
Anna Kareninawhom he studied first with great ardor, hoping everyminute bobbi billard naked to find an answer to the questions that wereengrossing him—he found laws deduced from thecondition of land culture in Europe; but he did not seewhy these laws, which did not apply in Russia, must begeneral. He saw just the same thing in the socialisticbooks: either they were the beautiful but impracticablefantasies which had fascinated him when he was a student,or they were attempts at improving, rectifying theeconomic position in which Europe was placed, withwhich the system of land tenure in Russia had nothing incommon. Political economy told him that the laws bywhich the wealth of bobbi billard naked oldhim that development along these lines leads to ruin. Andneither of them gave an answer, or even a hint, in reply tothe question what he, Levin, and all the Russian peasantsand landowners, were to do with their millions of handsand millions of acres, to make them as productive aspossible for the common weal.Having once taken the subject up, he readconscientiously everything bearing on it, and intended inthe autumn to go abroad to study land systems on thespot, in order that he might not on this question be750 of 1759
Anna Kareninaconfronted with what so often met him on varioussubjects. Often, just as he was beginning to understand theidea in the mind of anyone he was talking to, and wasbeginning to explain his own, he would suddenly be told:But Kauffmann, but Jones, but Dubois, but Michelli? Youhavent read them: theyve thrashed that question outthoroughly.He saw now distinctly that Kauffmann and Michellihad nothing to tell him. He knew what he wanted. Hesaw that Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, andthat in certain cases, as at the peasants on the way toSviazhskys, the produce raised by the laborers and theland is great—in the majority of cases when capital isapplied in the European way the produce is small, and thatthis simply arises from the fact that the laborers want towork and work well only in their own bobbi billard naked peculiar way, andthat this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, andhas its roots in the national spirit. He thought that theRussian people whose task it was to colonize and cultivatevast tracts of unoccupied land, consciously adhered, till alltheir land was occupied, to the methods suitable to theirpurpose, and that their methods were by no means so badas was generally supposed. And he wanted to prove thistheoretically in his book and practically on his land.751 of 1759
Anna KareninaChapter 30At the end of September the timber had been carted forbuilding the cattleyard on the land that had been allottedto the association of peasants, and the butter from thecows was sold and the profits divided. In practice thesystem worked capitally, or, at least, so it seemed to Levin.In ord bobbi billard naked er to work out the whole subject theoretically andto complete his book, which, in Levins daydreams, wasnot merely to effect a revolution in political economy, butto annihilate that science entirely and to lay the foundationof a new science of the relation of the people to the soil,all that was left to do was to make a tour abroad, and tostudy on the spot all that had been done in the samedirection, and to collect conclusive evidence that all thathad been done there was not what was wanted. Levin wasonly waiting for the delivery of his wheat to receive themoney for it and go abroad. But the rains began,preventing the harvesting of the corn and potatoes left inthe fields, and putting a stop to all work, even to thedelivery of the wheat.The mud was impassable along the roads; two millswere carried away, and the weather got worse and worse.752 of 1759
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