Not so much because of my reputation, which couldn't have been worse in the neighborhood than people had already made it with no help from me, as because of Robinson, from whom I had hoped to deliver myself with my outburst of frankness, to find the strength never to see him again by deliberately creating a scandal, by stirring up this hideous scene with myself.
Ez horrenbeste nere famarengatik, apenas izan zitekeen nere fama auzokoek berek nik batere lagundu gabe jarri zidatena baino txarragoa, baizik eta Robinsonengatik, esperantza izan bainuen sintzeritate-goraldi baten bidez Robinsonez libratuko nintzela, aproposko eskandalo batetik kemena etorriko zitzaidala hari ez berriz sarbiderik emateko, nere buruari egundoko eraso zakarra eginaz.