Before seeing them, merely on hearing their names, about which, as often as not, there was nothing particularly Hebraic, he would divine not only the Jewish origin of such of my friends as might indeed be of the chosen people, but even some dark secret which was hidden in their family.
Ikusi aurretik ere, haien abizena entzun eta beste gabe, abizen bereziki israeldarra izan ez arren, asmatu egiten zuen, benetan hala zirèn nire adiskideen judu-jatorria ez ezik, baita batzuetan haien familian egon zitekeèn edozein kutsu gogaikarri ere.