And Levin began carefully , as it were , feeling his ground , to expound his views . He knew Metrov had written an article against the generally accepted theory of political economy , but to what extent he could reckon on his sympathy with his own new views he did not know and could not guess from the clever and serene face of the learned man .
И Левин начал осторожно, как бы ощупывая почву, излагать свои взгляды. Он знал, что Метров написал статью против общепринятой теории политической экономии, но в какой степени он мог рассчитывать на свое сочувствие своим новым взглядам, он не знал и не мог догадаться по умному и спокойному лицу ученого человека.
