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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.
'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.
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