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'But what plots have you been hatching with the Shutolomovsky peasants? 'How do you know anything of it? 'Never mind; I do know of it. 'And there, too, I am right judge for yourself again. A neighbouring landowner, Bezpandin, has ploughed over four acres of the Shutolomovsky peasants' land. "The land's mine," he says.
The Shutolomovsky people are on the rent-system; their landowner has gone abroad who is to stand up for them? Tell me yourself? But the land is theirs beyond dispute; they've been bound to it for ages and ages. So they came to me, and said, "Write us a petition." So I wrote one. And Bezpandin heard of it, and began to threaten me.
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