but since you have learned from my ownself what I designed to conceal from you all my life, I will acknowledge to you that you have inspired me with sentiments I was unacquainted with before I saw you, and of which I had so slender an idea, that they gave me at first a surprise which still added to the pain that constantly attends them:
Baina, neronengandik jakin duzunez gero nire bizitza guztian ezkutatzeko asmo nuena, aitor dizut zu ikusi aurretik ezezagunak zitzaizkidan sentimenduak sorrarazi dizkidazula, eta hain gutxi nekien horietaz eta halako harridura zidaten sortu, are gehiago emendatu baitzuten horiei jarraikitzen zaien asaldura.