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Meanwhile spring came on, beautiful and kindly, without the

delays and treacheries of spring,--one of those rare springs in

which plants, beasts, and

roused Levin stillall his past and building up his lonely life firh many of the plans hich he had

returned to the country had not been carried out, still his most

important resolution--that of purity--had been kept by him He

was free from that shame, which had usually harassed hiht in the face In

February he had received a letter fro

hi worse, but that

he would not take advice, and in consequence of this letter Levin

went to Moscow to his brother's and succeeded in persuading hi-place abroad He

succeeded so well in persuading his brother, and in lending hi him, that he was

satisfied with hi, which called for special attention in spring, and in

addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on

agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the

character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable

data of the question, like the cli all the principles of scientific culture,

not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data

of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the

laborer Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of

his solitude, his life was exceedingly full Only rarely he

suffered from an unsatisfied desire to coafea Mihalovna With her indeed he

not infrequently fell into discussion upon physics, the theory of

agriculture, and especially philosophy; philosophy was Agafea

Mihalovna's favorite subject