Why, at least, was not her husband one of those men of taciturn passions who work at their books all night, and at last, when about sixty, the age of rheumatism sets in, wear a string of orders on their ill-fitting black coat?
Eta berak ez eduki behar senar gisa, gutxienez ere, gauez liburu artean lanean aritzen diren oldar isileko gizon horietako bat, eta azkenik hirurogei urtetan, erreumatismoen adina heltzean, beren frak gaizki josian ohorezko dominaz orratz bat eramaten duten horietakoa.