An agreement had been made with the old servant, and on the road the bailiff had learned that everywhere the corn was still standing in the fields, so that his one hundred and sixty shocks that had not been carried were nothing in comparison with the losses of others.

After dinner Levin was sitting, as he usually did, in an easy chair with a book, and as he read he went on thinking of the journey before him in connection with his book.

Today all the significance of his book rose before him with special distinctness, and whole periods ranged themselves in his mind in illustration of his theories.

" I must write that down," he thought.

" That ought to form a brief introduction, which I thought unnecessary before.