Instead of a cheerful, healthy stranger who, he hoped, would have diverted him from his mental perplexity, he had to meet his brother, who knew him through and through and would disturb his innermost thoughts and force him to make a clean breast of everything.
En vez de un visitante, extraño, sano y alegre, que Levin esperaba que pudiera distraerle de su preocupación, se veía obligado a tratar a su hermano, que le comprendía a fondo, y que leería en sus pensamientos más recónditos y le forzaría a hablar con toda sinceridad.