Being matter-of-fact fifteen-year-olds, too young to have ever trodden any courts but those marchese Barbicinti was so justifiably proud of, they had immediately, without even bothering to lower their voices so that the owners of the house shouldn't hear, started listing the defects of this "potato patch" (as one of them put it, making a scornful face). These were:
Hamabost urteko adituak izan arren, gazteegiak Barbicinti markesa harrotasun zuzenez betetzen zuten jokalekuez bestelakoak inoiz ezagutuak izateko, azkar hasi ziren "patata-sail" hartako akatsak zerrendatzen (esaera hori erabili zuen haietako batek, ezpainak zimurtuz mesprezio keinu batez). Hau da: