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Anna Karenina

‘Splendid, splendid!’ he said, lighting a fat cigar after the
roast. ‘I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a
peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer. And
so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to

be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in
agriculture. Of course, I’m an ignorant outsider; but I
should fancy theory and its application will have its
influence on the laborer too.’
‘Yes, but wait a bit. I’m not talking of political
economy, I’m talking of the science of agriculture. It
ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given
phenomena and the laborer in his economic,
ethnographical..’
At that instant Agafea Mihalovna came in with jam.
‘Oh, Agafea Mihalovna,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
kissing the tips of his plump fingers, ‘what salt goose, what
herb brandy!...What do yo think, isn’t it time to start,
Kostya?’ he added.
Levin looked out of the window at the sun sinking
behind the bare tree-tops of the forest.
‘Yes, it’s time,’ he said. ‘Kouzma, get ready the trap,’
and he ran downstairs.
Stepan Arkadyevitch, going down, carefully took the
canvas cover off his varnished gun case with his own

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