He took up an attitude of rather dignified aloofness towards the provincial authorities, but picked out the best circle of legal gentlemen and wealthy gentry living in the town and assumed a tone of slight dissatisfaction with the government, of moderate liberalism, and of enlightened citizenship.
Probintziako agintariengandik apur bat urrundurik egoten ahalegindu zen eta hirian bizi ziren judikaturako moduko aitonsemeen artean hautatu zituen adiskideak, gobernuarekiko halako nahiez-antxa bat hartuz, liberaltasun neurrizko eta hiritartasun zibilizatu batekin.