it was a victory!" said the General. "I mean to say, to an old soldier like me," he went on, wiping his monocle and replacing it, as though he were laying a fresh dressing on the raw wound underneath, while the Princess instinctively looked away, "that Empire nobility, well, of course, it's not the same thing, but, after all, taking it as it is, it's very fine of its kind; they were people who really did fight like heroes."
Zer nahi duzu, bada, esatea ni bezalako auskari zahar batek? -erantsi zuen segidan, monokuloa erantziz berau xukatzearren, apositu bat aldatuko zukeèn bezalatsu, printzesak bizkitartean begiak aldaratzen zituelarik senez-. Inperioko noblezia hura, nahiz eta beste zerbait ere izan, noski, baina ederra zen, ederra da, oso, bere tamainan, jende hura heroi gisa borrokatu baitzen, azken finean.