I know there have been simple peasants amongst us who have endured the soles of their feet to be broiled upon a gridiron, their finger-ends to be crushed with the cock of a pistol, and their bloody eyes squeezed out of their heads by force of a cord twisted about their brows, before they would so much as consent to a ransom.
Badakit aurkitu direla laborari soilak oin-zolen erretzera, pistola baten erauskarriaz hatz punten lehertzera, soka lodi batez kopetaren hertsatzearen bortxaz begiak odoletan burutik erauztera utzi direnak bakarrik erreskate saritan ezarri nahi izatea baino lehenago.