Перебирая предметы разговора такие, какие были бы приятны Сергею Ивановичу и отвлекли бы его от разговора о Сербской войне и Славянского вопроса, о котором он намекал упоминанием о занятиях в Москве, Левин заговорил о книге Сергея Ивановича.
Casting over the subjects of conversation that would be pleasant to Sergey Ivanovitch, and would keep him off the subject of the Servian war and the Slavonic question, at which he had hinted by the allusion to what he had to do in Moscow, Levin began to talk of Sergey Ivanovitch's book.