He wasn't poor, after all—he had two hundred acres of decent land, and a banked barn with a peaked silo, and a drive shed, and a square red brick house, though the house, like the man himself, had a look of bad temper.
He wasn't poor, after all—he had two hundred acres of decent land, and a banked barn with a peaked silo, and a drive shed, and a square red brick house, though the house, like the man himself, had a look of bad temper.
他一点也不穷，有二百英亩良田，一个带尖顶筒仓的装得满满的谷仓，一个车棚，一栋正方型的红砖房，虽然这房子看上去和这男人一样，似乎不那么好接近，窗上遮着深绿色的百叶窗，看不到窗帘，屋子正面的墙上有一道疤痕，那是门廊与前墙撕离的印记。