Brought up, as he was, in a cultivated home in the approved manner, he never tore part of his soul loose from its conventionalities even after he had long since individualised himself to a degree beyond its scope and freed himself from the substance of its ideals and beliefs.
Etxe burges kultibatu batean era eta ohitura tinkoetan hezia, bere arimako zati batez mundu horretako ordenari tinko atxikia geratu zen, mundu burges batean litekeen neurriaz gaindi indibidualizatu eta ideal eta sineste burgesen edukitik aspaldi askatu ondoren ere.