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You think it mean of me to count the trees in my forest, while

you make Ryabinin a present of thirty thousand; but you get rents

from your lands and I don't know what, while I don't and so I

prize what's come to me from my ancestors or been won by hard

work.... We are aristocrats, and not those who can only exist by

favor of the powerful of this world, and who can be bought for

twopence halfpenny."

"Well, but whom are you attacking? I agree with you," said Stepan

Arkadyevitch, sincerely and genially; though he was aware that in

the class of those who could be bought for twopence halfpenny

Levin was reckoning him too. Levin's warmth gave him genuine

pleasure. "Whom are you attacking? Though a good deal is not true

that you say about Vronsky, but I won't talk about that. I tell

you straight out, if I were you, I should go back with me to

Moscow, and...."