At length, when your apprenticeship was over, you said to yourself, 'I am going to set up on my own account, and not just to scrape together a kopeck here and a kopeck there, as the Germans do, but to grow rich quick.' Hence you took a shop at a high rent, bespoke a few orders, and set to work to buy up some rotten leather out of which you could make, on each pair of boots, a double profit.
Ordurako, Ivan Antonovitxek begiratu bat emana zien sorbalda gainetik, baita begizeharka aztertu ere, baina une horretantxe berriro ekin zion lanari, lehen baino ardura biziagoz gainera.