But it did not interest Levin, and, as soon as the landlord had finished, Levin returned to the first proposition, and, trying to get Sviyazhsky to express his views seriously, said to him:
A Levin non interessava questo piano; ma quando egli finì, Levin tornò alla sua prima tesi e disse, rivolto a Svijazskij e cercando di indurlo ad esprimere la sua ponderata opinione: