But for that matter, what would they have said about his entire life, a life that had deviated from theirs to the point of degeneracy, this life of his in the compulsive service of art, this life about which he himself, adopting the civic values of his forefathers, had once let fall such mocking observations-and which nevertheless had essentially been so much like theirs!
Bera ere zerbitzari izan zen, bera ere soldadu eta gerrari izan zen beraietako asko bezala;