Levin arrived at his sister's village at noon and left his horse with a friendly old peasant, the husband of his brother's nurse. Wishing to hear particulars of the hay harvest from this old man, Levin went to speak to him in his apiary.
Приехав в обед в деревню и оставив лошадь у приятеля-старика, мужа братниной кормилицы, Левин вошел к старику на пчельник, желая узнать от него подробности об уборке покоса.