Moreover, she had often shewn signs of apparent coldness towards me, which might have shaken my faith that I was for her a creature different from the rest, had that faith been founded upon a love that Gilberte had felt for me, and not, as was the case, upon the love that I felt for her, which strengthened its resistance to the assaults of doubt by making it depend entirely upon the manner in which I was obliged, by an internal compulsion, to think of Gilberte.
azkenik, ageriko hoztasun-seinaleak ere behin baino gehiagotan helaraziak zizkidan, nire itxaropena, berarentzat izaki ezberdin bat izan nintekeelakoa, aise xehatzeko modukoak, baldin nire itxaropen hori oinarritua izan balitz Gilbertek nireganako izan bide zezakeèn amodioan, eta ez-benetan zèn bezala-nik berarenganako zinez neukanean; eta horrek berak ematen zion nire itxaropenari euskortasun berezia, barne-beharrizan batez, Gilberterengan pentsatzera behartzen ninduèn moduari berari estekatua baitzegoen.