Sviyazhsky was one of those people – they invariably amazed Levin – whose judgment was very logical though never original and was kept quite apart from their conduct, while their manner of life was very definite and stable, its tendency being quite independent of their judgment, and even clashing with it.
Svijazskij era una di quelle persone che sempre s’imponevano all’attenzione di Levin: persone, il cui modo di ragionare molto coerente, anche se non originale, fila diritto per conto proprio, e la cui vita precisamente definita e salda nelle direttive, scorre poi da sé, in modo del tutto autonomo e quasi sempre in senso opposto al ragionamento.