The landowner smiled when the profits of Sviyazhsky's farming were mentioned, evidently aware of the sort of profits that his neighbour the Marshal of the Nobility was able to make.
Помещик при упоминании о выгодах хозяйства Свияжского улыбнулся, очевидно, зная, какой мог быть барыш у соседа и предводителя.