"We mowed the whole meadow! Oh, it is nice, delicious! And how have you been getting on?" said Levin, completely forgetting the disagreeable conversation of the previous day.

"Mercy! what do you look like!" said Sergey Ivanovitch, for the first moment looking round with some dissatisfaction.

" And the door, do shut the door!" he cried.

" You must have let in a dozen at least.

" Sergey Ivanovitch could not endure flies, and in his own room he never opened the window except at night, and carefully kept the door shut.