They were deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.
他们在抱怨着他们的父母没有赋予他们这种向地主请愿的卓越口才。
The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.