The impulse of atavistic lust (which was not really all lust, but partly a sensuality stemming from laziness) stung the civilized gentleman nearing fifty so sharply that it made him blush; somewhere, at infinite removes, he had been touched by scruples which he chose to call Rousseauesque, and felt deeply ashamed;
Odoletik zetorkion haragikoitasun hura-haragikoitasuna baino areago, nagikeriaren azalpen sentsual bat zen, batez ere-hain bizia zen une hartan, non berrogeita hamar urteko aitonseme guztiz gizabidetsu hura gorritu ere egin baitzen; bere arima, iragazki ugariren bitartez eskrupulu rousseautiarrez tindatuta, sakon-sakonean lotsatu zen.