In Russia the question is that of the relation of the working people to the land; though the question exists there too--but there it's a matter of repairing what's been ruined, while with us..." Stepan Arkadyevitch listened attentively to Levin.

"Yes, yes!" he said, "it's very possible you're right.

But I'm glad you're in good spirits, and are hunting bears, and working, and interested.

Shtcherbatsky told me another story--he met you--that you were in such a depressed state, talking of nothing but death....

" "Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death," said Levin.