The servant, whose turn it was to be up all night, lighted his candles, and would have gone away, but Levin stopped him.
This servant, Yegor, whom Levin had noticed before, struck him as a very intelligent, excellent, and, above all, good-hearted man.
"Well, Yegor, it's hard work not sleeping, isn't it?" "One's got to put up with it! It's part of our work, you see.
In a gentleman's house it's easier; but then here one makes more.
" It appeared that Yegor had a family, three boys and a daughter, a sempstress, whom he wanted to marry to a cashier in a saddler's shop.