She called on the lawyers, the president, remembered when bills fell due, got them renewed, and at home ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the workmen, paid the accounts, while he, troubling himself about nothing, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable things to her, sat smoking by the fire and spitting into the cinders.
Auzi-prokuradoreengana, presidentearengana, bera joaten zen, zor-agirien epe-buruak gogoan izaten zituen, luzamenduak lortzen zituen; eta, etxean, lisatu, josi, lixiba jo, langileak zaindu eta kontuak ordaintzen zituen, eta bitartean etxekojauna, ezertaz arduratu gabe, etengabeko lozorro zaputzean mokorturik egoten zen, sutondoan pipatzen, errautsetara ttuka, eta hartatik ez zen esnatzen andreari gauza higuingarriak esateko baino.