"At that word the old maid told me I had nothing to do but to go back whence I had come, and that if my wife had left me, she had done right, seeing that all men were scoundrels, heretics, disloyal, poisoners, deceiving poor maids despite even their ripe years, and that anyhow she would make her dog eat me if I did not make myself scarce as quickly as possible.
Hau entzundakoan, neskazaharrak esan dit etorria nintzen hartara itzuli beste egitekorik ez neukala, eta, emazteak utzi egin baninduen ondo egina zela, gizon guztiak direlako lapurrak, barrabanak, heretikoak, desleialak, pozoitzaileak, neskak tronpatzen dituztenak adinduta ere, eta bertan jarraituz gero bere zakurrak jango ninduela, ferrak jasotzen ez banituen lehenbailehen.