The landowner was evidently expressing his own thoughts – which people rarely do – thoughts to which he had been led not by a desire to find some occupation for an idle mind, but by the conditions of his life: thoughts which he had hatched in his rural solitude and considered from every side.
Se veía que aquel hombre expresaba sus propios pensamientos –cosa que sucede con poca frecuencia– y que tales ideas no nacían en un cerebro ocioso en el deseo de buscarse una ocupación, sino que tenían su origen en las condiciones de su vida y habían sido larga y profundamente meditadas en su soledad rural.