And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there. His past was fairly blameless;
Abokatuak, pentsamenduon beldur, bere iraganaldiari buruzko gogoetak egin zituen oroimenaren bazterretatik bila, harriduretako kaxa barrutik sortutako erresorte-panpina bezala, ea dongakeriarik erideten zuen.