1 You gave my assistant two hundred roubles.
2 But she did not tell Kitty about the two hundred roubles.
3 And so for this first and most important division he must have four thousand roubles.
4 In former years the hay had been bought by the peasants for twenty roubles the three acres.
5 "Because the forest is worth at least a hundred and fifty roubles the acre," answered Levin.
6 And he hurriedly took notes for three hundred roubles from his pocketbook, blushing a little.
7 He would have to pay some two thousand roubles on these debts too, in order to be quite free from anxiety.
8 And there a merchant will get three acres of land, worth ten roubles, as security for the loan of one rouble.
9 So that he needed at least six thousand roubles for current expenses, and he only had one thousand eight hundred.
10 Reckoning up his money and his bank book, he found that he had left one thousand eight hundred roubles, and nothing coming in before the New Year.
11 When Levin took over the management of the estate, he thought on examining the grasslands that they were worth more, and he fixed the price at twenty-five roubles the three acres.
12 If it had been unsuccessful he would not have bought land at thirty-five roubles the acre, he would not have married his three sons and a nephew, he would not have rebuilt twice after fires, and each time on a larger scale.
13 A few weeks before, Konstantin Levin had written to his brother that through the sale of the small part of the property, that had remained undivided, there was a sum of about two thousand roubles to come to him as his share.
14 Levin went up to the table, paid the forty roubles he had lost; paid his bill, the amount of which was in some mysterious way ascertained by the little old waiter who stood at the counter, and swinging his arms he walked through all the rooms to the way out.
15 Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a German expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.
16 Levin was not by now struck as he had been at first by the fact that to get from one end of Moscow to the other he had to have two powerful horses put into a heavy carriage, to take the carriage three miles through the snowy slush and to keep it standing there four hours, paying five roubles every time.
17 That was so far well, but Vronsky knew that in this dirty business, though his only share in it was undertaking by word of mouth to be surety for Venovsky, it was absolutely necessary for him to have the two thousand five hundred roubles so as to be able to fling it at the swindler, and have no more words with him.
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