Whenever a rich man passed him by in a splendid drozhki drawn by swift and handsomely-caparisoned horses, he would halt as though deep in thought, and say to himself, like a man awakening from a long sleep:
Haren aldamenetik dirudunen bat bizkor igarotzen zenean drojki dotore batean, zaldiak edergailu aberatsez apaindurik, hari begira geratzen zen lurrari josirik, eta gero, lo luze batetik esnatu balitz bezala bere onera itzulirik, esaten zuen: