Certainly one would have thought that, after these buffetings and trials and changes of fortune-after this taste of the sorrows of life-he and his precious ten thousand roubles would have withdrawn to some peaceful corner in a provincial town, where, clad in a stuff dressing-gown, he could have sat and listened to the peasants quarrelling on festival days, or (for the sake of a breath of fresh air) have gone in person to the poulterer's to finger chickens for soup, and so have spent a quiet, but not wholly useless, existence;
Hori ikusirik, pentsa genezake ezen, hainbeste ekaitzen ondotik, zoriaren gorabeherak eta bizitzaren nahigabeak horrela pairaturik, probintzietako bazter herrixka baketsu batera erretiratuko zela geratzen zitzaizkion hamar mila errubloekin, eta betiko geldituko zela han, perkalezko mantalaz jantzirik etxetxo arrunt bateko leihoaren alboan, igandeetan beraren leiho aurrean bertan mujikek elkarrekin izaniko liskarrei begira, edo, eguraste aldera, sartu-irten bat eginez noizean behin oilategian, zopari botako zion oiloa hautatzeko, eta horrela bizi hil arte, lasai baina, neurri batean behintzat, probetxuzko ezer egin gabe.