The two sets of rooms on the second floor were respectively occupied by an old man named Poiret and a man of forty or thereabouts, the wearer of a black wig and dyed whiskers, who gave out that he was a retired merchant, and was addressed as M. Vautrin.
Bigarreneko bi apartamentuetan, batean Poiret zeritzon agure zahar bat zegoen, eta bertzean berrogeita bat urteko gizon bat, ileorde beltza zerabilen, papiloteak tindatzen zituen, merkatari izana zela zioen, eta Vautrin jauna zeritzona.