This tall old man, emaciated and sallow with age, conceded to me much the same degree of affection, without tenderness or visible sign, and almost without words, that he felt for the animals on his farm and for his lands, or for his collection of stones fallen from the sky.
Agure maxkal eta adinak horixkatu hark xamurtasunik gabeko, kanporako azalpenik gabeko, ia hitzik ere gabeko maitasuna eskaintzen zidan, bere etxaldeko abereei, bere lurrari, ortzetik eroritako bere harriei eman ohi ziena bezalatsuko laztantasuna.