It was done simply because the labourers wished to work merrily and without care, while his interests were not only foreign and incomprehensible to them but flatly opposed to their own just interests. Levin had long felt dissatisfied with his relation to the work on his estate.
"Я не могу просить ее быть моею женой потому только, что она не может быть женою того, кого она хотела", -- говорил он сам себе.