"No, dear friend, I am not going to tell you that I have loved you with that passion and those transports which one no longer feels, it seems to me, after thirty, and I am already a long way past that age.
Ez, adiskide laztana, ez dizut esango maite izan zaitudanik hogeita hamar urte bete ondoren nire ustez jadanik sentitzen ez diren grina eta bihotz-bulkada horiekin, aspaldi baitu, izan ere, adin hori gainditu nuela.