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So they mowed the first row. And this long row seemed

particularly hard work to Levin; but when the end was reached and

Tit, shouldering his scythe, began with deliberate stride

returning on the tracks left by his heels in the cut grass, and

Levin walked back in the same way over the space he had cut, in

spite of the sweat that ran in streams over his face and fell in

drops down his nose, and drenched his back as though he had been

soaked in water, he felt very happy. What delighted him

particularly was that now he knew he would be able to hold out.

His pleasure was only disturbed by his row not being well cut. "I

will swing less with my arm and more with my whole body," he

thought, comparing Tit's row, which looked as if it had been cut

with a line, with his own unevenly and irregularly lying grass.