'It seems to me that to send him abroad would be like punishing a pike by throwing it into the water,' said Levin; and only afterwards remembered that that thought, apparently given out as his own, and which he had heard from his acquaintance, was taken from one of Krylov's fables, and that his acquaintance had repeated it from a feuilleton.
«Me parece que mandarle fuera de Rusia es igual que castigar al sollo echándole al río.» Y luego recordó aun que este pensamiento, que él había presentado como propio, era tomado de una fábula de Krilov, y que el conocido de quien lo oyera lo había recogido, a su vez, de un artículo publicado en un periódico.