Mais avant que cela ne se produise, j'étais fort inquiet car, étant le quatrième garçon d'une famille de huit enfants—il y avait aussi quatre filles—, il était absolument impossible pour mon père, agriculteur de métier, de me payer de telles études.
But before that happened, I was very concerned because, since I was the fourth boy in a family of eight children—there were also four girls—it was absolutely impossible for my father, a farmer by occupation, to pay for that kind of education for me.