"It is apparently going to be impossible for me," the General in his vulgarity of spirit was too prone to repeat, "heaven having given me as a daughter the most beautiful person in the States of our Sovereign, and the most virtuous, to derive any benefit from her for the advancement of my fortune!
"Ezinezkoa izango zait, bada,-errepikatzen zion jeneralaren gogo arruntak maiz-maiz bere buruari-, gure subiranoaren Estatuetako pertsonarik ederrena eta bertutetsuena eman didalarik Jainkoak alabatzat, berarengandik batere probetxurik ateratzea nire gora-beharrari aurrerabidea emateko!