and there was too some obsequiousness to his chief and even to his chief's wife, but all this was done with such a tone of good breeding that no hard names could be applied to it. It all came under the heading of the French saying:
bazituen parrandak pasuko militar-laguntzaileekin, baita paseoak ere hiriko kale urrunetan barna afalostean; bazituen lausenguak buruzagiarentzat eta baita buruzagiaren emaztearentzat ere, baina guzti hau hain eratasun tonu handian gertatzen zen, non ezinezkoa izango baitzatekeen hitz txarrez aipatzea: