I tell you that in advance." Here he broke off to run to the window and shout to his servant (who was holding a knife in one hand and a crust of bread and a piece of sturgeon in the other-he had contrived to filch the latter while fumbling in the britchka for something else):
Aizak, Porfiri! -egin zion oihu, leihora hurbildurik, morroiari. Morroiak labana zeukan esku batean, eta ogi-azal bat eta arrain gazitu puska bat bestean, britxkatik zerbait ateratzera joan zen batean handik hartu baitzuen, bidenabar eta egokieraz baliaturik-.