I WAS born in the year 18-- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.
18...-ko urtean jaio nintzen, aberastasun handiko oinordekoa eta, jakina, errenta bikainez sariturik.