(My puritanical childhood has left me, I think, a hatred of any surrender to bodily weakness-cowardice, I call it.) I controlled myself, made a desperate effort, and finally conquered my giddiness....
(Nire haurtzaro puritanotik gorroto diot, nik uste, bigunkeriaz amore emateari; utzikeria deritzot horri.) Eutsi egin nion, indarberritu eta ikara gainditzea lortu nuen...