Without ambitions and without joy, like many a man who from year to year thus effaces himself more and more, he had come to put a fanatic application into minor matters to which he limited himself.
Ez zuen handinahirik, ez bizi-pozik ere, eta urtetik urtera ezabatuz joan ohi diren beste hainbat gizonen antzera, bere buruaren mugarri murritz ziren hamaika txikikeriari eskaintzen zien bere denbora, grina eta ardurarik gehiena.