When an opulent American arrives in Europe, his first care is to surround himself with all the luxuries of wealth: he is so afraid of being taken for the plain citizen of a democracy, that he adopts a hundred distorted ways of bringing some new instance of his wealth before you every day.
Amerikar oparo bat Europara iristen denean, luxuzko aberastasun guztiez inguratzea izaten du lehen ardura; eta demokrazia bateko hiritar soiltzat hartuko ote duten oso beldur denez, hamaika eratara saiatzen da bere aberastasunaren irudi berri bat egunero zuen aurrean aurkezten.