and the necessity, if he was to find any beauty in her face, of fixing his eyes on the fresh and rosy protuberance of her cheekbones, and of shutting out all the rest of those cheeks which were so often languorous and sallow, except when they were punctuated with little fiery spots, plunged him in acute depression, as proving that one's ideal is always unattainable, and one's actual happiness mediocre.
eta hain behartuta sumatzen zuen bere burua, haren irudia ederrestekotan, bakarrik haren baraila inguruko larmintz arrosa eta freskoa gogoratzera-alde batera utziz, alegia, masailak berak, ondotxo baitzekien haiek sarritan horixkak, maskalak, zetaka gorrixkaz pikardatuak izan ohi zituela-, non izugarrizko nahigabea sentitu baitzuen, eta gogo-ariketa hura egin beharra idealaren eskuraezintasunaren eta zorionaren kaskartasunaren froga nabaria iruditu.