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.
Oía decir a Agafia Mijailovna que Prójor, con el dinero que le regalara Levin para comprar un caballo, se dedicaba a beber, y que había pegado a su mujer casi hasta matarla. Levin escuchaba y leía, y la lectura reavivaba todos sus pensamientos.