" "But why is it we don't do like the merchants? Why don't we cut down our parks for timber?" said Levin, returning to a thought that had struck him.

"Why, as you said, to keep the fire in.

Besides that's not work for a nobleman.

And our work as noblemen isn't done here at the elections, but yonder, each in our corner.

There's a class instinct, too, of what one ought and oughtn't to do.