With some difficulty, I got him to make the tour of the house. He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.
Si fece un po' pregare prima di compiacermi, e contentandosi di gettar dalle porte uno sguardo nelle diverse stanze, mi disse che dovevo aver faticato molto per operare un così gran cambiamento in poco tempo, ma non si rallegrò punto di veder la casa così bene accomodata.