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Anna Karenina

‘Behind Turkin tomorrow or the next day they might
begin.’
‘And the clover?’
‘I’ve sent Vassily and Mishka; they’re sowing. Only I

don’t know if they’ll manage to get through; it’s so
slushy.’
‘How many acres?’
‘About fifteen.’
‘Why not sow all?’ cried Levin.
That they were only sowing the clover on fifteen acres,
not on all the forty-five, was still more annoying to him.
Clover, as he knew, both from books and from his own
experience, never did well except when it was sown as
early as possible, almost in the snow. And yet Levin could
never get this done.
‘There’s no one to send. What would you have with
such a set of peasants? Three haven’t turned up. And
there’s Semyon..’
‘Well, you should have taken some men from the
thatching.’
‘And so I have, as it is.’
‘Where are the peasants, then?’

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