. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. However, how can Iwrite now? Now even the invisible efforts are visible,and, besides, I am up to my ears in Yufanizing. Sonya iswith me. We have no superintendent; we have onlyassistants in our agricultural labour and building opera-tions, and she runs the office and the cash-box. I havebees, and sheep, and a new orchard, and a goes well, though, of course, poorly in com-parison with the ideal. What do you think of the Polishaffairs ? Things are bad! Shall we not be obliged totake the sword down from the rusty nail ? In replyto Fets
. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. However, how can Iwrite now? Now even the invisible efforts are visible,and, besides, I am up to my ears in Yufanizing. Sonya iswith me. We have no superintendent; we have onlyassistants in our agricultural labour and building opera-tions, and she runs the office and the cash-box. I havebees, and sheep, and a new orchard, and a goes well, though, of course, poorly in com-parison with the ideal. What do you think of the Polishaffairs ? Things are bad! Shall we not be obliged totake the sword down from the rusty nail ? In replyto Fets jest about Tolstoys wife, who was so many yearsyounger than her husband, Tolstoy again wrote to himin May: My wife is not playing with dolls at all. Donot insult her. She is a serious helpmate of mine, andthat, too, while she is carrying a burden, which she hopesto be relieved of in the beginning of July. What willcome later ? We are Yufanizing a bit. I have made an Countess Tolstdy (nee Sofiya Behrs) Jhotof^rtiviiiefrom a Photograph. LEV N. TOLSTOY 255 important discovery, which I hasten to inform you and superintendents and elders are only a nui-sance on an estate. Try to chase away all the managersand to sleep until ten oclock, and things will certainlynot go worse. I have made this experiment, and I amwell satisfied with it. Shortly afterward Fet visited the Tolstoys, and this ishis account of the meeting: I had just turned in betweenthe towers, down the birch avenue, when I came upon LevNikolaevich, who was directing the drawing out of a seinealong the whole length of a pond, and who was apparentlytaking every precaution to prevent the escape of the cru-cians, which concealed themselves in the ooze and rushedpast the wings of the seine, without paying any attentionto the furious snapping of the ropes and even axles. Oh, how glad I am ! he exclaimed, obviously divid-ing his attention between me and the crucians, * Just aminute! Ivan! Ivan! Pull the left wing in mo
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