1 But time and work did their part.
2 They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily.
3 The intoxication of the news that Kitty was not married had gradually begun to work upon him.
4 And just as always he returned in July and at once fell to work as usual with increased energy.
5 Seeing the master, the laborer, Vassily, went towards the cart, while Mishka set to work sowing.
6 He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
7 "Keep your hands still, Grisha," she said, and she took up her work, a coverlet she had long been making.
8 Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
9 He sent for the carpenter, who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine.
10 This question was enough to take Levin back to all the details of his work on the estate, which was on a large scale, and complicated.
11 She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches.
12 It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years.
13 Then the countess told her of more disagreements and intrigues against the work of the unification of the churches, and departed in haste, as she had that day to be at the meeting of some society and also at the Slavonic committee.
14 But he was not aware that he sought work for himself that year, that this was one of the means for keeping shut that secret place where lay hid his feelings towards his wife and son and his thoughts about them, which became more terrible the longer they lay there.
15 He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination.
16 And, as he came out into the farmyard, Levin, like a tree in spring that knows not what form will be taken by the young shoots and twigs imprisoned in its swelling buds, hardly knew what undertakings he was going to begin upon now in the farm work that was so dear to him.
17 But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.
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