True, the slavery and abasement in which she held me might have given me (such things often do so) the power to question her with abrupt directness (seeing that, inasmuch as I figured in her eyes as a mere slave and nonentity, she could not very well have taken offence at any rude curiosity);
Noski, berari lotuta naukan umilazio eta esklabotzak aukera eman liezadake (izan ere maiz ematen dit) gordin eta zuzen galdetzeko. Ni bere begi aurrean esklaboa eta hutsaren hurrengoa naizenez, nire jakin-min gordinak ezin du iraindu.