free as he was from the shackles imposed on many other men by honesty, decency, and plain good manners, he moved through the jungle of life with the confidence of an elephant which advances in a straight line, rooting up trees and trampling down lairs, without even noticing scratches of thorns and moans from the crushed.
libre zegoelarik beste gizon askoren eginari onestasunak, prestutasunak eta, beharbada, gizalegeak ezartzen dizkioten eragozpenetatik, alkatea zuhaitzak sustraitik ateraz eta animalien gordelekuak zanpatuz arantzen urratuei eta zapaldutakoen garrasiei erreparatu gabe aurrera dabilen elefantearen segurtasunaz mugitzen zen bizitzaren basoan.