As Gonzo had a regular passion for the great gentleman, who said rude things to him and moved him to tears once or twice every year, his mania was to seek to do him trifling services; and, if he had not been paralysed by the habits of an extreme poverty, he might sometimes have succeeded, for he was not lacking in a certain ingredient of shrewdness, and a far greater effrontery.
Gonzok erabateko jaiera baitzion etxeko nagusiari, hark urtean behin edo bitan zakarkeriak esaten eta negar eginarazten ziolako, hari zerbitzu txikiak egiteko tema hartu zuen gure kortesanoak; eta, bere ohitura arras txiroak eragozpide suertatu izan ez balitzaizkio, arrakasta izango zuen behin baino gehiagotan, erne samarra baitzen gizona, eta are lotsagabeagoa ernea baino.