With two impatient strides he overtook the man in the Marquis's straw hat, the man whom he had come to address as Ratcliffe. In a voice exaggeratively loud and cheerful, he broke the bottomless silence and made conversation.
Bi pausotzar egonezintsuz hartu zion aurrea Markesaren kapelu lastozkoa zeraman gizonari, gerora Ratcliffe deitzera jarria zen gizonari. Ahots nabarmenegi ozen-alaitsuz, isiltasun hondogabea hautsi, eta solasean ekin zion.