A great ardent thought burned in her bosom, animating her heart with an exalted feeling of sad, tormenting joy; but she could find no words, and she waved her hands with the pang of muteness. She looked into her son's face with eyes in which a bright, sharp pain had lit its fires. "Very well, mother!
Pentsamendu handi eta gartsu bat taupadaka ari zitzaion bularrean, eta bihotza indarberritzen zion aldi berean goibela eta mingarria zen alaitasun sentimendu suspergarri batez, baina ez zuen hitzik aurkitzen eta, mututasun horrek oinazeturik, eskuei eraginez, semearen aurpegiari begiratzen zion, begiak sufrimendu bizi eta samin batek nahigabetuta...