Even the injuries we do them will not easily divert from the path of their duty towards us those conventional natures of which my great-aunt furnished a type: who, after quarrelling for years with a niece, to whom she never spoke again, yet made no change in the will in which she had left that niece the whole of her fortune, because she was her next-of-kin, and it was the 'proper thing' to do. But I was fond of Bloch;
Badira pertsona batzuk gure erroreek berek ere nekez aldenarazten dituztenak gurekiko omen duten betebeharretik, eta horien adibide eta eredu behinena genuen amona, zeinak, aspaldiko urtetan iloba batekin liskartua egon arren, hitzik ere egiten ez ziola, ez baitzuen hargatik testamentua ezertxo ere aldatu, iloba hari eta ez beste inori utzi baitzizkion herentzian bere ondasun guztiak, huraxe zelako senitarteko hurbilena eta halaxe "behar zuelako", omen.