But beyond this business horizon he could not see. He used to spend his hours of leisure on the threshold of his shop, leaning against the framework of the door. Take him from his dark little counting-house, and he became once more the rough, slow-witted workman, a man who cannot understand a piece of reasoning, who is indifferent to all intellectual pleasures, and falls asleep at the play, a Parisian Dolibom in short, against whose stupidity other minds are powerless. Natures of this kind are nearly all alike;
Bere alorretik jalgia, bere botiga xume eta ilunetik zeinaren atalasean egoten baitzen alfer orduetan, bizkarra atearen habean pausaturik, lehengo langile ergel eta zakar hura bihurtzen zen berriz, arrazonamendu baten konprenitzeko gauza ez zen gizona, gogoaren gozamen guztiekiko soraioa, ikuskizunetan lo hartzen zuena, Dolivan paristar horietako bat, astakerietan soilik azkarrak.