In a final and desperate effort the smiling gaze of Legrandin struggled to the extreme limits of its tenderness, vagueness, candour, and distraction; then feeling, no doubt, that there was nothing left for it now but to answer, he said to us:
Azken ahalegin etsituan, Legrandinen behako irritsuak bere samurtasun, amestitasun, zintzotasun eta adigalkortasunaren maila gorena erdietsi zuen, baina pentsatuz, nonbait, erantzuteari ezin zitzaiola jadanik itzuri, esan zigun: