"If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
"Goriot zaharrak ikustera etorri zaizkion dama guztiek irudi zuten bezain alaba aberatsak ukanen balitu, ez legoke ene etxean, hirugarrenean, hilabeteko berrogeita bortz liberatan, eta ez litzateke pobre bat bezala jantziko."