When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown.
Ahoan ahia baileukan murduskatzen zuen hizketa, ezaugarri zoragarria berau, ez baitzen ezein mintzaira-akatsen salagarri, ezpada arimaren dohatsutasunaren, inoiz galdua ez zuèn haurtzaroko errugabetasun-hondarraren adierazgarri. Ahoskatu ezin zituèn kontsonante guztiak, hain zuzen, bera egiteko gauza ez zèn beste horrenbeste zitalkeriaren testigantza bana baitziren.