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Anna Karenina

‘We’re all peasants together. We go into everything
ourselves. If a man’s no use, he can go, and we can
manage by ourselves.’
‘Father Finogen wants some tar,’ said the young

woman in the clogs, coming in.
‘Yes, yes, that’s how it is, sir!’ said the old man, getting
up, and crossing himself deliberately, he thanked Levin
and went out.
When Levin went into the kitchen to call his
coachman he saw the whole family at dinner. The women
were standing up waiting on them. The young, sturdy-
looking son was telling something funny with his mouth
full of pudding, and they were all laughing, the woman in
the clogs, who was pouring cabbage soup into a bowl,
laughing most merrily of all.
Very probably the good-looking face of the young
woman in the dogs had a good deal to do with the
impression of well-being this peasant household made
upon Levin, but the impression was so strong that Levin
could never get rid of it. And all the way from the old
peasant’s to Sviazhsky’s he kept recalling this peasant farm
as though there were something in this impression that
demanded his special attention.

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