JAPANESE POTTERY: peasants gathering together for the meeting. He told japanese pottery foreman not to call the peasants up to the office, as he meant to go into the village himself and meet the men where they would assemble. Having hurriedly drank a cup of tea offered him by the foreman, Nekhludoff went to the village. CHAPTER VII. THE DISINHERITED. From japanese pottery crowd assembled in front of the house of the village elder came the sound of voices; but as soon as Nekhludoff came up the talking ceased, and all the peasants took off their caps, just as those in Kousminski had done. TheJAPANESE POTTERY: peasants here were of a much poorer class than those in Kousminski. The men wore shoes made of bark and homespun shirts and coats. Some had come straight from their work in their shirts and with bare feet. Nekhludoff made an effort, and began his speech by telling the peasants of his intention to give up his land to them altogether. The peasants were silent, and the expression on japanese pottery faces did not undergo any change. "Because I hold," japanese pottery Nekhludoff, "and believe that every one has a right to the use of the land." "That's certain. That's so, exactly," said
JAPANESE POTTERY: several voices. Nekhludoff went on to say that the revenue from the land ought to be divided among all, and that he would japanese pottery suggest that they should rent the land at a price fixed by themselves, the rent to form a communal fund for their own use. Words of approval and agreement were still to be heard, but the serious faces of the peasants grew still more serious, and the eyes that had been fixed on the gentleman dropped, as if they were unwilling to put him to shame by letting him see that every one had understood japanese pottery trick,
JAPANESE POTTERY: and that no one would be deceived by him. Nekhludoff spoke clearly, and the peasants were intelligent, but they did not and could not understand him, for the same reason that the foreman had so long been unable to understand him. They were fully convinced that it is natural for every man to consider his own interest. The experience of many generations had proved to them that the landlords always considered their own interest to the detriment of the peasants. Therefore, if japanese pottery landlord called them to a meeting and made them some japanese pottery of a new offer, it could evidently
JAPANESE POTTERY: only be in order to swindle them more cunningly than before. "Well, then, what are you willing to rent the land at?" asked Nekhludoff. "How can we fix a price? We cannot japanese pottery it. The land is japanese pottery and the power is in your hands," answered some voices from among the crowd. "Oh, not at all. You will yourselves have the use of the money for communal purposes." "We cannot do it; the commune is one thing, and this is another." "Don't you understand?" said the foreman, with a smile (he had followed Nekhludoff to the meeting), "the Prince is letting
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