Coupling this ambition with the young man's humour Stephen had often called him one of the tame geese and there was even a point of irritation in the name pointed against that very reluctance of speech and deed in his friend which seemed so often to stand between Stephen's mind, eager of speculation, and the hidden ways of Irish life.
Anbizio hori eta mutil gaztearen izaera uztartuz, sarritan deitu ohi zion Stephenek etxe-antzara eta bazen izen horretan amorru puntu bat lagunak hitz eta ekintzarako erakusten zuen mukertasunaren kontra, zeinak, agi zenez, traba egiten zion Stephenen adimen espekulaziorako irrikaz beteari, irlandar bizimoduaren bide ezkutuen ezagutzan.