But in the system of education which they had given me faults were not classified in the same order as in that of other children, and I had been taught to place at the head of the list (doubtless because there was no other class of faults from which I needed to be more carefully protected) those in which I can now distinguish the common feature that one succumbs to them by yielding to a nervous impulse. But such words as these last had never been uttered in my hearing;
Baina ematen zitzaidàn hezkuntzan, hutsegiteen ordena ez zen beste haur batzuen hezkuntzakoaren araberakoa, irakatsia baitzitzaidan ezen beste guztien aurretik kokatu behar nituela (nigan ez omen zegoen-eta beraren kontra ni arduratsuago babestu beharreko beste ezein akatsik) hutsegite jakin batzuk, zeinen ezaugarri baterakoi nagusia baitzen, gaur egun ulertzen dudanez, beraietan erortzeko kausa bulkada nerbioso bati amore eman izana.