Talk of it by all means to your son or your servant, like that old fellow who, having no other auditor of his praises nor approver of his valour, boasted to his chambermaid, crying, "O Perrete, what a brave, clever man hast thou for thy master!" At the worst, talk of it to yourself, like a councillor of my acquaintance, who, having disgorged a whole cartful of law jargon with great heat and as great folly, coming out of the council chamber to make water, was heard very complacently to mutter betwixt his teeth:
Horretaz mintza zakizkie ausarki zeure seme eta zeure morroiari, aspaldiko hura bezala, bere goresmemerako beste adilegorik ez izanik, eta bere balioaren kontzientea izanik, bere neskamearekin askiesten baitzen, oihukatuz: "O Perrete, daukanan nagusi plantako eta jakintsua! Gaizkienean, solas egizu zeure baitan, nire ezagutzako kontseilari batek bezala, ezinagoko bortxazko eta halako ezdeuskeriazko paragrafo mukuru bat zintzurretik atera ondoren, kontseiluko ganbaratik jauregiko pixatokira erretiraturik, aditzen zitzaion murmurikatzen zuela bere buruaz franko harturik: