whatever you may say, it's good to be alive all the same, my dear Amédée!" And then, abruptly, the memory of his dead wife returned to him, and probably thinking it too complicated to inquire into how, at such a time, he could have allowed himself to be carried away by an impulse of happiness, he confined himself to a gesture which he habitually employed whenever any perplexing question came into his mind: that is, he passed his hand across his forehead, dried his eyes, and wiped his glasses.
Esanak esan, bizitzak badu alde onik franko, ene Amadeo maitea!" Tupustean, emazte hil berriaren oroitzapena itzuli eta, halako une batean, bere buruari bozkario hartzen nolatan utzia ote zion azaltzeari zailegia iritziz nonbait, bere gogoak arazo korapilatsuren bati aurre egin behar ziòn bakoitzean egin ohi zuèn keinua eginez askietsi zuen bere burua: eskuaz bekokia igurtziz, eta begiak eta betaurrekoen beirak xukatuz.