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Levin was insufferably bored that evening with the ladies; he was

stirred as he had never been before by the idea that the

dissatisfaction he was feeling with his syste his

land was not an exceptional case, but the general condition of

things in Russia; that the organization of some relation of the

laborers to the soil in which they would work, as with the

peasant he had met half-way to the Sviazhskys', was not a dream,

but a problem which must be solved And it seemed to hiht to try and solve

it

After saying good-night to the ladies, and pro to stay the

whole of the next day, so as to make an expedition on horseback

with the ruin in the crown forest, Levin

went, before going to bed, into his host's study to get the books

on the labor question that Sviazhsky had offered hie room, surrounded by bookcases and

with two tables in it--one ain

the middle of the room, and the other a round table, covered with

recent nued like the rays of a star round the la

table was a stand of drawers , and full

of papers of various sorts