" I mean that I'm acting for my own advantage.

It's all the better for me if the peasants do their work better.

" "Well, whatever you do, if he's a lazy good-for-nought, everything'll be at sixes and sevens.

If he has a conscience, he'll work, and if not, there's no doing anything.

" "Oh, come, you say yourself Ivan has begun looking after the cattle better.