"How different I am," he said to himself, "from the fickle, libertine Fabrizio of nine months ago!" At length he began to descend that astounding height. He acted mechanically, he said, and as he would have done in broad daylight, climbing down a wall before friends, to win a wager.
Azkenean, altuera harrigarri hura jaisteari ekin zion mutilak. Mekanikoki ari zen-hala esan zuen berak-, eta egun argiz ariko balitz bezala, apustu bat irabazi nahian adiskideen aurrean jaisten.