" "Oh, if one only had the means to do it, Nikolay Ivanovitch! It's all very well for you; but for me, with a son to keep at the university, lads to be educated at the high school--how am I going to buy these dray-horses?" "Well, that's what the land banks are for.

" "To get what's left me sold by auction? No, thank you.

" "I don't agree that it's necessary or possible to raise the level of agriculture still higher," said Levin.