You are altogether, as the French say, too _primesautiere_ a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or nothing.

" Levin listened to his brother and did not understand a single word, and did not want to understand.

He was only afraid his brother might ask him some question which would make it evident he had not heard.

"So that's what I think it is, my dear boy," said Sergey Ivanovitch, touching him on the shoulder.

"Yes, of course.