True, at intervals he would say, while gazing from the verandah to the courtyard, and from the courtyard to the pond, that it would be indeed splendid if a carriage drive could suddenly materialise, and the pond as suddenly become spanned with a stone bridge, and little shops as suddenly arise whence pedlars could dispense the petty merchandise of the kind which peasantry most need.
Batzuetan, ate aurrean etxeari eta urmaelari begira jarririk, bere artean esaten zuen ondo legokeela biak lurpeko igarobide baten bitartez lotzea, edo urmaelaren gainean harrizko zubi bat eraikitzea, eta zubiko alde banatan jarlekuak ipintzea, saltzaileak hor eser zitezen nekazariek behar izaten dituzten gauzatxoak saltzen.