Rousing himself, Levin got up from the haycock, and looking at the stars, he saw that the night was over.

"Well, what am I going to do? How am I to set about it?" he said to himself, trying to express to himself all the thoughts and feelings he had passed through in that brief night.

All the thoughts and feelings he had passed through fell into three separate trains of thought.

One was the renunciation of his old life, of his utterly useless education.

This renunciation gave him satisfaction, and was easy and simple.