Levin attributed this to his own worth, not knowing that Metrov, who had exhausted the matter with all his intimates, was particularly pleased to speak about it to any fresh person, and, in general, willingly spoke to everybody about the subject with which he was occupied and which was not yet clear to himself.
Egli attribuiva ciò al proprio merito, e non sapeva che Metrov, avendone parlato con tutti gli intimi, parlava particolarmente volentieri di questa materia con ogni persona nuova, e che in generale parlava volentieri con tutti della materia che l’occupava, ancora poco chiara a lui stesso.