He was not taken for a spy, and therefore his neighbors, without constraint, gossiped in his presence, allowing themselves even to go farther than their natural caution would in most cases have allowed them.
Ez zuten, bada, espioitzat hartu, eta haren ingurukoak lasai mintzatzen ziren batere errezelorik gabe, eskuarki ohi zutena baino urrunago ere joanez.