All these were relations and friends of Kitty's, and, though Levin liked them, he regretted his own – the Levin – world and order of things, which was being submerged by this influx of 'the Shcherbatsky element,' as he put it to himself.
Questi erano tutti parenti e amici della moglie di Levin. Ed egli, pur volendo bene a tutti, si rammaricava un po’ e per il suo mondo e per l’ordine delle cose “leviniano” che veniva soffocato da quell’inondazione dell’“elemento šcerbackiano”, come diceva lui.