You seem to be somewhat impatient.

Our country folk are not so bad as you think; only they do not yield easily to new influences.
The beginning is always difficult for them.

I know something about it myself.

When I returned from Dijon to take charge of the affairs at La Thuiliere, I had no more experience than you, Monsieur, and I had great difficulty in accomplishing anything.

Where should we be now, if I had suffered myself to be discouraged, like you, at the very outset ?" Julien raised his eyes toward the speaker, coloring with embarrassment to hear himself lectured by this young peasant girl, whose ideas, however, had much more virility than his own.
"You reason like a man, Mademoiselle Vincart," remarked he, admiringly, "pray, how old are you ?" "Twenty-two years; and you, Monsieur de Buxieres ?" "I shall soon be twenty-eight." "There is not much difference between us; still, you are the older, and what I have done, you can do also." "Oh!" sighed he, "you have a love of action.