The colonel didn't do anything during the whole of my speech except grind his teeth like a mare when it feels the chill of frozen turnips on its tongue, and then he roared at me:
Nire berbaldi guztiaren ostean, hortzak karraskatu zitzaizkioan koronel jaunari, erremolatxa izoztuak mingaina hozten dion behor bati legez, eta gero deiadar egin zidaan: