You'd have joined us, perhaps, if it hadn't been for a certain young Englishwoman whom I have scarcely seen myself, but about whose beauty every one in Bastia is talking."
Agian zu ere gutakoa izango zinen, baldin eta nik zeharka baizik ikusi ez nuen neska ingeles hori izan ez balitz, baina, egia esan, Bastian denek ontzat daukate.