He considered an entire change of economic conditions nonsense; but he had always felt the injustice of his superfluities compared with the peasant's poverty, and now decided, in order to feel himself quite justified, that though he had always worked hard and lived simply, he would in future work still more and allow himself still less luxury. And it all seemed to him so easy to carry out that he was in a pleasant reverie the whole way home, and it was with cheerful hopes for a new and better life that he reached his house toward nine o'clock in the evening.
El cambio de las condiciones económicas presentes le parecía absurdo, pero comparando la pobreza del pueblo con su abundancia personal, resolvió trabajar más para sentirse más justo y permitirse todavía menos gustos superfluos, aunque ya antes trabajaba bastante y vivía con gran sencillez.