There was this amiable Sviyazhsky, who kept his opinions only for social use, and evidently had some other bases of life which Levin could not discern, while with that crowd, whose name is legion, he directed public opinion by means of thoughts foreign to himself; and that embittered landowner with perfectly sound views he had wrung painfully from life, but wrong in his bitterness toward a whole class, and that the best class in Russia, and Levin's own discontent with his own activity, and his vague hope of finding a remedy for all these things – all this merged into a feeling of restlessness and expectation of a speedy solution.
Aquel enfadado propietario, acertado en sus reflexiones, deducidas a través de su experiencia de la vida, era injusto en sus apreciaciones sobre una clase entera –y la mejor– de los habitantes de Rusia. Todo ello, más el descontento de sus ocupaciones y la vaga esperanza de que se hallara a todo remedio, se fundía en Levin en un sentimiento de interior inquietud y la espera de una pronta resolución.