His anxiety to please Lisa, the charitable purpose to which he had devoted the salary he received, the just and scrupulous manner in which he had always struggled to carry out his duties, no longer seemed to him valid excuses for his base abandonment of principle.
Lisari atsegina egiteko gogoa, soldataren erabilera karitatezkoa, bere zereginak betetzeko ahalegin zintzoa jadanik ez zitzaizkion iruditzen arrazoi aski sendoak bere koldarkeria zuritzeko.