Talk about the harvest, hiring labourers, and so forth, which, as Levin knew, it was the custom to regard as something very low,...
now seemed to Levin to be the only important thing. 'This,perhaps, was unimportant under serfdom, or is unimportant in England. In both cases the conditions are definite; but here in Russia now, when everything has been turned upside down and is only just taking shape again, the question as to how these conditions will shape is the only important questions in Russia,'mused Levin.