he gazed down into the grave and the tears he shed were drawn from him by the sacred emotion, a single-hearted sorrow. When such tears fall on earth, their radiance reaches heaven. And with that tear that fell on Father Goriot's grave, Eugene Rastignac's youth ended. He folded his arms and gazed at the clouded sky;
Gautzen ari zuen, ilunabar heze batek nerbioak durduzarazten zituen, hilobiari so egin zion eta hantxe gorde bere mutil gaztearen hondar malkoa, bihotz garbi baten hunkidura sainduek isurarazi negar hori, erortzen diren lurretik zeruetarainoko jauzia egiten duten negar horietako bat, ala fedea.