an "undersized little runt" like that, with his tubercular chest and the frame of a shrimp, whose one thought, from the minute he got into the G.U.F., was to get ahead, and who never missed a chance, in public or in private, to lick the Federal Secretary's boots (hadn't I ever seen him at the Caffc della Borsa, on the rare occasions when he managed to sit down at the same table as the "old ruffians of the Bombamano" ?
bera bezalako "pepelerdo" bat, tisiko baten bularra eta kardantxilo-hezurrak zituena eta GUFen sartu bezain azkar karrera egitea beste helbururik izan ez zuena, eta horregatik jendartean zein pribatuki Federazio-buruari oinak miazkatzeko aukerarik galtzen ez zuena (ez al nuen, ba, inoiz ikusi Caffè della Borsa-n, "Eskubonba-ko alproja zaharren" mahaitxoan esertzea lortzen zuen aldi arraroetan?