he told me what I was barely aware of, namely, that I had six farmer-tenants, that the rents might have amounted to sixteen or eighteen thousand francs, and that if they actually amounted to barely half that sum, it was because almost everything was eaten up by repairs of all sorts and by the payment of middlemen.
Berak adierazi zidan izpirik ere nik susmatzen ez nuen zerbait: sei maizter nituela, hamasei-hamazortzi mila libera eskura nezakeela maiztergoetatik, eta erdia ere kobratzen ez banuen, ia dena konponketak eta bitartekoak ordaintzen xahutzen zirelako zela.