Now if France and England had been reduced to the point where all they could do was watch what was happening and lump it, it was perfectly plain: the full responsibility for their present impotence fell on those fine, upstanding, decorative gents in tails and top-hats-whose way of dressing, at least, responded to the nostalgia for the nineteenth century so many literary decadents went in for-who now governed them.
Dena den, Frantzia eta Ingalaterra begiratu eta etsitzera behartuta bazeuden, haien orduko ezinaren erantzukizuna artean haiek gobernatzen zituzten kopa-sonbreru eta lebitadun jaun apaingarri haiei (janzteko moduan behintzat hainbat literaturgile dekadenteren XIX. mendearekiko oroiminari hain ondo zegozkion haiei...) egotzi behar zitzaien.