but they loved me enough to be unwilling to spare me that suffering, which they hoped to teach me to overcome, so as to reduce my nervous sensibility and to strengthen my will.
baina hauek hainbeste maite ninduten non ez baitzeuden niri sufrikarioa ekidinez amore emateko gertu, berau bezatzen irakatsi nahi baitzidaten, neure kirio-hunkiberatasuna moteltzen eta neure borondatea sendotzen ikas nezan.