Not only because, in the hours when he most entirely mistrusted her, he had rarely imagined such a culmination of evil, but because, even when he did imagine that offence, it remained vague, uncertain, was not clothed in the particular horror which had escaped with the words "perhaps two or three times," was not armed with that specific cruelty, as different from anything that he had known as a new malady by which one is attacked for the first time.
Ez bakarrik bere mesfidantza-ordurik ilunenetan ere nekez iritsia zelako gaitzaren gauzapena hain urruneraino irudikatzera, baizik eta, zer hura imajinatzen zuenean ere, lauso agertzen zitzaiolako, ezbaikor, "bizpahiru aldiz akaso" hitz zehatzei zerièn laztura zehatzaz erantzia, ordura arte ezagutua duzun orotatik zeharo ezberdina den eta lehen aldiz erasaten dizun gaitz baten berariazko ankerkeria horretaz gabetua.