"If you choose to assign me so high a character," replied the major, "it is the more reason for me to be firm and prudent. Whatever there may be in this proposal to make it attractive to me, instead of simplifying the problem, it only increases the difficulty of it.
-Hain zuzen ere, hain emari goitarrez erosi nahi naualako-erantzun zuen maiorrak-, izan behar diat arretatsuago, zorrotzago. Oraindik errespetatzen dudan proposamen horrek gauzak lautu ordez zaildu besterik ez lituzkek egingo.