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Over the course of World War I, Petrograd had developed an enormous munitions industry, manned by peasant labor conscripted in the countryside and brought to the newly expanded factories.
Social scientists declared that unpaid household and subsistence work, as well as peasant agriculture and traditional crafts, were residual economic activities that would soon be replaced by modern techniques and full commodification.
'And your affairs?''The waggons'll hold three times as much as peasant carts.
Never mind!' shouted a merry, bearded, red-faced peasant; showing a row of white teeth and holding aloft a greenish vodka bottle that glittered in the sunshine.
'You come too!' shouted a peasant to Levin.
'But it is not work such as that of a peasant or a savant.''Granted!
That you receive for your work on the estate a profit, let's say of five thousand roubles, while our peasant host, work as he may, cannot get more than fifty, is just as dishonest as my receiving more than my head-clerk, or Malthus getting more than a railway mechanic.
'You say it is unjust for me to receive five thousand while the peasant gets only fifty roubles: that's true.
'I don't give it away because nobody demands that of me, and if I wanted to I could not do it,' replied Levin; 'besides, there is no one to give it to.''Give it to this peasant; he won't refuse.''Yes, but how should I set about it?
'Oh, our host!' he said, addressing a peasant who had opened the creaking barn doors and was entering.
You have treated me to game, and I won't forget you!''Isn't he a fine fellow?' said Oblonsky when Veslovsky had gone out and the peasant had shut the doors after him.
Oblonsky was saying something about the freshness of a girl, comparing her to a fresh kernel just taken from its shell; and Veslovsky was laughing his merry infectious laugh, and repeating something that had probably been told him by a peasant: 'You'd better strive for a wife of your own!''Gentlemen!
At the edge of the marsh the peasant boys and men who had pastured their horses in the night lay, covered with their coats, having fallen asleep at daybreak.
Veslovsky now sang, now recalled with relish his adventures with the peasants who entertained him with vodka and said 'No offence!'; and now his night exploits with hazel nuts, the maid-servant, and the peasant who asked him whether he was married, and learning that he was not said: 'Don't hanker after other men's wives, but above all things strive to get one of your own!'These words particularly amused Veslovsky.
After drinking tea at the prosperous peasant's house where Levin had stopped when on his way to Sviyazhsky's, and conversing with the women about their children and with the old man about Count Vronsky, of whom he spoke very highly, Dolly continued her journey at ten o'clock.
In answer to the question whether she had any children, the good-looking young peasant wife had cheerfully replied:'I had one girl, but God released me.
A crowd of merry peasant women, with ready-twisted sheaf-binders hanging from their shoulders, were crossing the bridge, chattering loudly and merrily.
The clerk wished to get down, but then, changing his mind, shouted authoritatively and beckoned to a peasant.
'Look at him, stuck fast!' shouted the clerk angrily at the peasant, who was slowly stepping with bare feet over the ruts of the dry, hard-trodden road.
The squire?''Are they at home, my good man?' said Dolly vaguely, not knowing how to speak of Anna even to a peasant.
'I expect so,' said the peasant, shifting from one bare foot to the other, leaving in the dust a clear imprint of it with its five toes.
'I don't know, my lad.''There, you see, when you've turned to the left you'll knock straight up against it,' said the peasant, evidently unwilling to let them go, and wishing to talk.
I consider that the duty of going to the meetings, and considering a peasant's case about a horse, is as important as anything else I can do.
I see it in the peasants too sometimes: a proper peasant always tries to get hold of as much land as possible.
And he related how a peasant stole some flour from a miller, and how when the miller spoke to him about it the peasant sued him for libel.
An old man with a tangled beard was leaning over some iron and doing something, while muttering senseless words in French; and as always in that nightmare (this was what made it terrible) she felt this peasant was paying no attention to her but was doing something dreadful to her with the iron.
A grimy, misshaped peasant in a cap from under which his tousled hair stuck out, passed that window, stooping over the carriage wheels.
'There is something familiar about that misshaped peasant,' she thought.
A little peasant muttering something was working at the rails.
Why is my old friend Matrena toiling so (I doctored her after the fire, when she was struck by a girder)?' he thought, looking at a thin peasant woman who pushed the grain along with a rake, her dark sunburnt bare feet stepping with effort on the hard uneven barn floor.
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