And to please myself, as well as by a sort of chivalrous loyalty, in any connection or with no relevance at all, I would repeat the name of that street until my father, not being, like my mother and grandmother, in the secret of my love, would ask:
Eta plazer hutsez, baita nolabaiteko zaldun-leialtasunez ere, edozein aitzakia zela bide, esan egiten nuen karrika horren izena, nahiz eta aitak, nire amodioaz jakinaren gainean ez egonik, ama eta amona, berriz, egon bazeudèn bezalaxe, zera galdetu behin baino gehiagotan: