If in the earliest days the student had fancied himself to be master, Mme. de Nucingen had since become the stronger of the two, for she had skilfully roused and played upon every instinct, good or bad, in the two or three men comprised in a young student in Paris.
Baldin eta, bere harremanaren lehen uneetan, ikasleak bere burua nagusitzat jo bazuen, Nucingeneko anderea azkarrena bilakatua zen, Eugèneren baitan Pariseko mutil gazte batengan diren bizpahirur gizonen sentimendu guztiak, onak ala txarrak, mugiarazten zituen trikimailu horren laguntzarekin. Kalkulu bat ote zen hori harengan? Ez;