Though what Metrov was saying now no longer interested him at all, he felt some pleasure all the same in hearing him. His vanity was flattered by the fact that so learned a man should explain his opinions to him so willingly, so carefully, and with such faith in Levin's knowledge of the subject that he sometimes by a mere hint indicated a whole aspect of the matter.
A pesar de que ahora no le interesaba ya lo que estaba diciendo, Levin le escuchaba con gusto, halagado en el fondo de que un sabio de tanto renombre le expusiera sus ideas con el calor, atención y confianza con que lo hacía.