Nevertheless, though she was only a kept woman, I had so anticipated for myself, perhaps to poetize it a little, a hopeless love, that the nearer the moment approached when I should have nothing more to hope, the more I doubted.
Hala ere, berriro diotsut, emakume atsegingarria izanagatik, agian horrenbeste poetizatu nuelako maitasun hura esperantzarik gabekotzat neukan eta itxaron beharrik gabeko unea hurbildu ahala zalantzak areagotu egiten zitzaizkidan.