Sviyazhsky questioned him about his affairs in the country, as usual disbelieving in the possibility of devising anything that had not already been discovered in Western Europe; but now Levin did not consider this at all unpleasant.
Sviajsky le preguntó por los asuntos de su pueblo, suponiendo, corno siempre, que no podría habérsele ocurrido nada que no existiese ya en Europa, sin que tal motivo pareciera hoy molestar a Levin.