In the life of this man, too, as well as in all things else in the world, daily use and the accepted and common knowledge seemed sometimes to have no other aim than to be arrested now and again for an instant, and broken through, in order to yield the place of honor to the exceptional and miraculous.
Bazirudien gizon honen bizitzan, munduan alde guztietan bezala bestalde, ohiko, egunoroko, ezagun eta arauzko ororen helburua zela alegia inoiz edo behin segundu labur batzuetako atsedenaldia izatea mirariari, graziari leku egitea.