The job turned out to be the biggest thing of its kind that I had ever been in. We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished.
Nous commençâmes gaiement, je dirais presque dans une humeur folâtre, mais la premiere pomme de terre n’était pas épluchée, que notre bel enthousiasme insouciant avait disparu. Plus nous épluchions, plus il nous semblait avoir a faire.