"Pardon, gentlemen!" he said, running out onto the steps.

" Have you put the lunch in? Why is the chestnut on the right? Well, it doesn't matter.

Laska, down; go and lie down!" "Put it with the herd of oxen," he said to the herdsman, who was waiting for him at the steps with some question.

" Excuse me, here comes another villain.

" Levin jumped out of the wagonette, in which he had already taken his seat, to meet the carpenter, who came towards the steps with a rule in his hand.