They know better now.

If they gave me too much trouble I could starve their cattle." "Yes, when you catch them in your fields," I remarked, taking no notice of the abrupt turn which he had given to the conversation.
"I can do it without that.

You must know that, by the Emancipation Law, the peasants received arable land, but they received little or no pasturage.

I have the whip hand of them there!" The remarks of Karl Karl'itch on men and things were to me always interesting, for he was a shrewd observer, and displayed occasionally a pleasant, dry humour.

But I very soon discovered that his opinions were not to be accepted without reserve.