I told my story without commenting on it as I went along, in the manner of the old novellas, yet my heart was in the telling and I was secretly afraid that my listeners would laugh at me.
Gogoeta handiegirik gabe kontatu nuen, nobela zaharretan bezala, eta halere bihotza hartan ezarria neukan, eta egundoko beldurra nuen entzuleek ez ote zidaten barre eta burla egingo.