I remembered, when a boy, to have seen him in his old age cruelly tormented with these public affairs, neglecting the soft repose of his own house, to which the declension of his age had reduced him for several years before, the management of his own affairs, and his health;
Oroitzen bainintzen neure haurtzaroan nola ikusten nuen zaharra, nahasmen publiko horrek gogoa krudelki inarrosia zuelarik, bere etxeko aire goxoa atzenduz, aspaldiko denboraz bere urteen ahuleziak hartaratua baitzen, eta bere dirua eta osasuna ere, eta, egiazki bere bizia gutietsiz gutitarik egin baitzuen ez zuela hartan galdu, haien alde bidaia luze eta nekeei loturik.