He fairly puffed himself up, cursed and swore outrageously, but the minute consul Bolognesi, or old Calamity, or some other bigwig in the group contradicted him, he'd have his tail between his legs in no time, doing the most menialjobs, like running to the tobacconist's in the theatre arcade to buy the Federal Secretary a packet of fags, or ringing up old Calamity's home to tell his exwasherwoman wife when the great man would be home, and such, to curry favour and get himself forgiven) :
Den-dena harrotzen zen, biraoak eta bera baino hitz potoloagoak botatzen zituen, baina Bolognesi kontsulak edo Sciagurak edo taldeko beste buruzagi batek kontu hartzen zioten bakoitzean, ziztu bizian sartzen zuen buztana hanka artean, enkargurik apalenak-tabakodendara joan eta Federazio-buruari Giubek paketea erosi, "Sciagura etxera" deitu eta "garbitzaile izandako emazteari" gizon handia itzultzeko zela jakinarazi...-egiteko gauza zela, barkamena lortu eta haien ederra berriro lortzearren):