Anna Karenina - LimpidSoft

PART THREE CHAPTER 28
must lower the standard of husbandry and interest the laborers in its success. How
to do this?–that’s a matter of detail; but undoubtedly it can be done.”
This idea threw Levin into a great excitement. He did not sleep half the night,
thinking over in detail the putting of his idea into practice. He had not intended to
go away next day, but he now determined to go home early in the morning. Besides,
the sister-in-law with her low-necked bodice aroused in him a feeling akin to shame
and remorse for some utterly base action. Most important of all–he must get back
without delay: he would have to make haste to put his new project to the peasants
before the sowing of the winter wheat, so that the sowing might be undertaken on a
new basis. He had made up his mind to revolutionize his whole system.
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