Clever at all games of cards, a good hunter, and writing a fine hand, he had at home a lathe, and amused himself by turning napkin rings, with which he filled up his house, with the jealousy of an artist and the egotism of a bourgeois.
Karta-joko guztietan trebea, ehiztari ona eta idazkera eder baten jabe, tornu bat zeukan etxean eta hartan jolasten zen etxea-bete zeuzkan dafaila-uztaiak egiten, artista baten joranaz eta burges baten berekoikeriaz. Sala txikirantz abiatu zen: