And he continued to shake hands with all the friends whom he had suspected, with the purely formal reservation that each one of them had, possibly, been seeking to drive him to despair.
Eta, hala, eskua ematen jarraitu zien susmopean atxikiak zituèn lagun haiei guztiei, dotorezia aratzezko estilo-hondar haretxekin, zeina beharbada haiek saiatuak baitzitzaizkion etsi-etsian galarazten.