1 The bailiff came in, and said everything, thank God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched.
2 The bailiff had always been against the drying machine, and now it was with suppressed triumph that he announced that the buckwheat had been scorched.
3 He was annoyed, and reprimanded the bailiff.
4 You must settle with him, Konstantin Dmitrievitch, said the bailiff.
5 He went straight from the cowhouse to the counting house, and after a little conversation with the bailiff and Semyon the contractor, he went back to the house and straight upstairs to the drawing room.
6 Levin sent for his bailiff, but immediately went off himself to look for him.
7 The bailiff, beaming all over, like everyone that day, in a sheepskin bordered with astrachan, came out of the barn, twisting a bit of straw in his hands.
8 "If we can manage it, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," said the bailiff.
9 "Do just as you like, only let it be as soon as possible," he said, and went to the bailiff.
10 Looking towards the plough land across the river, he made out something black, but he could not distinguish whether it was a horse or the bailiff on horseback.
11 The bailiff said that he had said so a long while ago, but no heed had been paid him.
12 The bailiff, who had been to the merchant, had come back and brought part of the money for the wheat.
13 One was from Sokolov, his bailiff.
14 To ascertain that I should need to ask my bailiff.
15 Footman, go and call the bailiff.