What was there in common-all fourofthem seemed to say-between them and the distracted,whispering, Italian rank and file, that, even in the synagogue, before the wide open Ark of the Lord, was still taken up with all the trivial cares of everyday life, business, politics, even sport, but never with the soul or with God?
Zertan ziren berdinak-bazirudien esaten zutela laurek-haiek eta platea arretagabe, xuxurlari, italiarra, zeinek baita Tenpluan, Jaunaren Kutxa zabalduaren aurrean ere jarraitzen baitzuen arduratzen gizarteko bizitzako purtzilkeria guztiez, negozioez, politikaz, baita kirolaz ere, baina inoiz ere ez arimaz eta Jainkoaz? Ni mutikoa nintzen orduan: