Just as a short while before I had started aside in fear from the easy thoughtless pleasure of merely sensual love and felt a dread of Maria's beauty that laughingly offered itself, so now I felt a dread of death, a dread, however, that was already conscious of its approaching change into surrender and release.
Nik aspaldi ez dela zentzuen maitasun soilezko errazkeria gustagarriari lotsaz eta beldurrez ihes egiten nion bezala, Mariaren edertasun barreti eta opaltzeko prest zegoenaren aurrean izua somatu nuen bezala, halaxe somatzen nuen une honetan heriotzaren aurrean ere izua; baina banekien izu horrek aurki opaltzera eta askatasunera eramango ninduela.