Now and then, in the eagerness of dispatching pressing business, I would inadvertently summon Bartleby, in a short, rapid tone, to put his finger, say, on the incipient tie of a bit of red tape with which I was about compressing some papers.
Noizbehinka, presakako lanen bat despatxatzeko larrian, oharkabe hotsegiten nion Bartlebyri, tonu labur, bizkorrez, atzamarra jar zezan, esaterako, dokumentu batzu biltzeko zinta gorriz lotzen hasia nintzen gorapiloan.