A strange thing, indeed, that those words, "two or three times," nothing more than a few words, words uttered in the air, at a distance, could so lacerate a man's heart, as if they had actually pierced it, could sicken a man, like a poison that he had drunk.
egin ere, "bizpahiru aldiz" hitz haiek gurutze-marka bat bezalakoa egin zioten Swanni bihotzaren haragi bizitan.