Régebben (ez csaknem gyerekkorában kezdődött már, s egyre fokozódott, érett férfikoráig), amikor olyasmit iparkodott tenni, amiből mindenkire, az emberiségre, Oroszországra, a falvakra jó származik, azt vette észre, hogy jólesett rágondolni, a cselekvés módja azonban esetlen volt, nem volt teljesen bizonyos benne, hogy a dolog föltétlen szükséges.
In former days - almost from childhood, and increasingly up to full manhood - when he had tried to do anything that would be good for all, for humanity, for Russia, for the whole village, he had noticed that the idea of it had been pleasant, but the work itself had always been incoherent, that then he had never had a full conviction of its absolute necessity, and that the work that had begun by seeming so great, had grown less and less, till it vanished into nothing.hunglish hunglish