He listened to Agatha Mikhaylovna's talk of how Prokhor had forgotten the Lord, was spending on drink the money Levin had given him to buy a horse with, and had beaten his wife nearly to death; he listened and read, and remembered the whole sequence of thoughts raised by what he was reading.
Ascoltava il parlottare di Agaf’ja Michajlovna, di come Prochor avesse dimenticato Dio e con i denari che gli aveva regalato Levin per comprare il cavallo cioncasse tutto il giorno e picchiasse a morte la moglie; ascoltava e leggeva il libro, e ricordava tutto il procedimento delle sue idee risvegliato dalla lettura.