No, tell me how there can be a theory of rent?..." "Will you have some junket? Masha, pass us some junket or raspberries.

" He turned to his wife.

" Extraordinarily late the raspberries are lasting this year.

" And in the happiest frame of mind Sviazhsky got up and walked off, apparently supposing the conversation to have ended at the very point when to Levin it seemed that it was only just beginning.

Having lost his antagonist, Levin continued the conversation with the gray-whiskered landowner, trying to prove to him that all the difficulty arises from the fact that we don't find out the peculiarities and habits of our laborer; but the landowner, like all men who think independently and in isolation, was slow in taking in any other person's idea, and particularly partial to his own.