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The delight he had experienced in the work itself, and the

consequent greater intimacy with the peasants, the envy he felt

of them, of their life, the desire to adopt that life, which had

been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the

execution of which he had thought out in detail-all this had so

transformed his view of the farming of the land as he had managed

it, that he could not take his former interest in it, and could

not help seeing that unpleasant relation between him and the

workpeople which was the foundation of it all. The herd of

improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and

enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two

hundred and forty acres heavily manured, the seed sown in drills,

and all the rest of it-it was all splendid if only the work had

been done for themselves, or for themselves and comrades-people

in sympathy with them.