"Once at Tomsk," he repeated to himself, to repress some feelings of impatience which he could not entirely master, "in a few minutes I should be beyond the outposts; and twelve hours gained on Feofar, twelve hours on Ogareff, that surely would be enough to give me a start of them to Irkutsk."
"Behin Tomsken-esan eta esan ari zen bere artean, zenbaitetan gainezka egiten zion ezinegonari eutsi nahirik-, minutu gutxi batzuetan abangoardiako postuetatik harago izango nauk, eta hamabi ordu kendu Feofarri, hamabi ordu kendu Ogareffi, eta nahikoa izango diat haien aurretik Irkutskera sartzeko!"