'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.
Уже потом он вспомнил, что эта, как будто выдаваемая им за свою, мысль, услышанная им от знакомого, была из басни Крылова и что знакомый повторил эту мысль из фельетона газеты.