Any one who had heard him hold forth on the regulations that control the importation and exportation of grain, who had seen his grasp of the subject, his clear insight into the principles involved, his appreciation of weak points in the way that the system worked, would have thought that here was the stuff of which a minister is made.
Izan zedin gari, irin edo bihi, haien ezaugarri eta etorkiak hauteman, haien kontserbazioaz ardura, prezioen aitzinetik jakin, uzten joritasun zein eskasia aitzinetik igar, laboreen merke eskura, Sizilian ala Ukrainian horni, Goriotek ez zuen horretan guztian parerik.