"I look at you, my young interlocutors," Vasily Ivanovich said meanwhile, shaking his head, resting his folded arms on a cleverly designed stick of his own making with a Turk's head for a handle, "I look at you and can't help admiring you.
-Zuei begiratu, nire solaskide gazteok-zioen bitartean Vasili Ivanovitxek, buruari eraginez eta, eskuak gurutze, berak trebetasun handiz txirikordaturiko makila batean bermaturik, zeinak turkiar baten irudia baitzeukan eskutokitzat-, zuei begiratu, eta miretsirik geratzen naiz ezinbestean.