Only his father, a colonel, didn't lose hope and said that it wouldn't matter at all because, as a matter of course, when young Dauerling grew up he would go in for a military career.
Bere aita, koronela, zen itxaropena galtzen ez zuen bakarra: zioenez, horrek ez zion axolarik, zeren, jakina den bezala, Dauerling gaztea, hazitakoan, armadan sartuko baitzen.