For the rest, he was a witty, florid little individual, and much addicted to a practice of what he called "embellishing" whatsoever he had to say-a feat which he performed with the aid of such by-the-way phrases as "my dear sir," "my good So-and-So," "you know," "you understand," "you may imagine," "relatively speaking," "for instance," and "et cetera";
Ez zen arau horretaz gogoratu gobernadorearen emaztearen ahotsa entzun zuen arte, eta ordurako baziren hainbat minutu aurrean zeukala.