Don Fabrizio was shown a letter from the authorities of Girgend announcing to the industrious citizens of Donnafugata the concession of a contribution of two thousand lire for sewerage, a work which would be completed before the end of 1861, so the Mayor assured them, stumbling into one of those lapsus whose mechanism Freud was to explain many decades later;
Don Fabriziori Girgentiko agintarien eskutitz bat erakutsi zioten, zeinetan aditzera ematen baitzitzaien Donnafugatako biztanle langileei bi mila lirako laguntza ematen zietela estolderiarako; obra hura 1961erako amaituko zen, alkate jaunak baieztu zuen bezala, behaztopo eginez Freudek hainbat hamarkada geroago azalduko zituen lapsus horietako batekin;