1 "Yes, on the right," affirmed the peasant.
2 Whippings are necessary sometimes, for a peasant often plays the fool, and discipline ought to be maintained.
3 The peasant seemed nonplussed by the question.
4 "No, barin," replied the peasant.
5 Rather, you are a vehicle but shapen and fitted with the axe or chisel of some handy peasant of Yaroslav.
6 Lastly, a peasant of Tientietnikov's own village, when asked what his barin was like, returned no answer at all.
7 That is to say, I am the owner of three hundred peasant souls, a badly administered estate, and a fool of a bailiff.
8 Still more difficult did he find it to deal with the peasant women.
9 "No, Constantine Thedorovitch," replied the peasant.
10 Everywhere temptation lies in wait for the peasant, and he needs to be cunning if he is to get through the world at all.
11 On the other hand, I demand of him thereafter more than is demanded of a peasant anywhere else.
12 Whether a peasant be working for himself or for me, never do I let him waste time.
13 Every peasant belonging to Constantine Thedorovitch is well off, and hasn't to work for nothing.
14 In particular did he aver that, provided the Russian peasant could be induced to array himself in German costume, science would progress, trade increase, and the Golden Age dawn in Russia.
15 The latter, on appearing, was seen to have the air, half of a peasant, half of an official.