Avunculus Meus translation pg 21-22

Haec inter medios labores urbisque fremitum.

These things took place during the middle of the toils and noise of the city.

In secessu solum balinei tempus studiis eximebatur

In his country retreat, only bath time was taken away from his studies

(Cum dico ‘balinei’, de interioribus loquor; nam dum destringitur tergiturque, audiebat aliquid aut dictabat).

(When I say ‘bath’, I am talking about the inner rooms; for while he was being scraped and wiped down, he would listen to something or dictate).

In itinere quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacabat:

On a journey, as if released from all other anxieties, he had time for this alone:

Ad latus notarius cum libro et pugillaribus, cuius manus hieme manicis muniebatur, ut ne caeli quidem asperitas ullum studii tempus eriperet;

At his side there would be a secretary with a book and writing tablet, whose hands were protected with mittens in winter, so that not even the harshness of the weather might take away any study time;

Qua ex causa Romae quoque sella vehebatur.

For this reason he rode in a sedan chair at Rome also.

Repeto me correptum ab eo, quod ambularem:

I recall that I was rebuked by him because I walked:

‘Poteras’ inquit ‘has horas non perdere’;

He said ‘you could not have wasted these hours’;

Nam perire omne tempus arbitrabatur, quod studiis non impenderetur. Vale.

For he thought that all time, which was not spent on studies, was wasted. Farewell.