Levin felt more and more that his ideas of marriage and his dreams of how he would arrange his life had been but childishness, and that this was something he had never understood and was now still further from understanding, although it was happening to him; and in his breast a tremor rose higher and higher, and the unruly tears came to his eyes.
Levin sentiva sempre più che tutte le sue idee sul matrimonio, i suoi sogni su come avrebbe costruito la sua vita, erano fanciullaggini, e che questo era qualcosa che lui non aveva finora inteso e che in quel momento ancor meno intendeva, sebbene si compisse in lui; un fremito sempre più alto gli sollevava il petto e le lacrime indocili gli venivano agli occhi.