On the other hand, some aver that it was over a woman that the pair fell out-over a woman who, to quote the phrase then current among the staff of the Customs Department, was "as fresh and as strong as the pulp of a turnip," and that night-birds were hired to assault our hero in a dark alley, and that the scheme miscarried, and that in any case both Chichikov and his friend had been deceived, seeing that the person to whom the lady had really accorded her favours was a certain staff-captain named Shamsharev.
Nolanahi ere, lehenagotik liskarturik omen zeuden, aduanako funtzionarioek ziotenez arbi mamitsu bat bezain lerden eta mardula zen neskagazte odol-bizi bat zela kausa; besteak beste, lankideak gizon batzuk erosi omen zituen, gauez Txitxikov jipoi zezaten kalezulo ilunen batean; baina, ziotenez, barregarri geratu ziren biak ala biak, eta Shamsharev izeneko kapitainorde batek bereganatu zuen neska.