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The day on which Sergey Ivanovitch came to Pokrovskoe was one of

Levin'stime,

when all the peasantry show an extraordinary intensity of

self-sacrifice in labor, such as is never shown in any other

conditions of life, and would be highly esteeht highly of them, and if

it were not repeated every year, and if the results of this

intense labor were not so simple

To reap and bind the rye and oats and to carry it, to mow the

meadows, turn over the fallows, thrash the seed and sow the

winter corn--all this seeh it all everyone in the village, fro child, must toil incessantly for three

or four weeks, three ti on rye-beer,

onions, and black bread, thrashing and carrying the sheaves at

night, and not giving more than two or three hours in the

twenty-four to sleep And every year this is done all over

Russia

Having lived the greater part of his life in the country and in

the closest relations with the peasants, Levin always felt in

this busy tiy in the people

In the earlyof the rye,

and to the oats, which were being carried to the stacks, and

returning ho up, he drank coffee with the et ready

the seed-corn