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When Levin went into the kitchen to call his coachman he saw the

whole family at dinner. The women were standing up waiting on

them. The young, sturdy-looking son was telling something funny

with his mouth full of pudding, and they were all laughing, the

woman in the clogs, who was pouring cabbage soup into a bowl,

laughing most merrily of all.

Very probably the good-looking face of the young woman in the

clogs had a good deal to do with the impression of well-being

this peasant household made upon Levin, but the impression was so

strong that Levin could never get rid of it. And all the way from

the old peasant's to Sviazhsky's he kept recalling this peasant

farm as though there were something in this impression that

demanded his special attention.

Chapter 26