And gay, decidedly gay and pleased, was professor Ermanno's tone when he took my arm, much later, and suggested I should in future make full, free use whenever I wished of the twenty thousand odd books they had at home, an important part of which, he told me, were concerned with Italian literature of the middle and late nineteenth century.
Eta alaitasuna, alaitasun garbia eta satisfazioa nabaritu zitzaizkion geroago ahotsean Ermanno irakasle jaunari, besotik heldu eta proposatu zidanean nahi nuenean eta nahi nuen bezala erabil nitzala etxeko ia hogei mila liburuak, haietako asko eta asko-esan zidan-XIX. mende erdi eta bukaerako italiar literaturakoak.