It was the most pressingly busy season of the year, when an extraordinary tension of self-sacrificing labour manifests itself among all the peasants, such as is never shown in any other condition of life, and such as would be highly esteemed if the people who exhibit this quality esteemed it themselves, if it were not repeated every year, and if the results of that tension were not so simple.
Era la temporada activa de los trabajos del campo, la que exige del campesino un esfuerzo mayor, un espíritu de sacrificio desconocido en otras profesiones; esfuerzo que rendiría más si los mismos que lo realizan tuvieran conciencia de ello y lo supieran valorar, si no se repitiese anualmente y sus resultados no fueran tan simples.