A shadow seemed to have fallen on her life; she recognized that these children, of whom she had been so proud, were not only quite ordinary but even bad and ill-bred children, with coarse animal inclinations – in fact, vicious children. She could think and speak of nothing else, and yet could not tell Levin her trouble.
Mintha homály borult volna az életére: rájött, hogy azok a gyerekei, a kikre olyan büszke volt, nemcsak hogy a lehető legközönségesebb, de sőt rosszúl nevelt s durva és állatias hajlamokkal telt, rossz gyermekek voltak.