They would have preferred to Bloch, as companions for myself, boys who would have given me no more than it is proper, by all the laws of middle-class morality, for boys to give one another, who would not unexpectedly send me a basket of fruit because they happened, that morning, to have thought of me with affection, but who, since they were incapable of inclining in my favour, by any single impulse of their imagination and emotions, the exact balance of the duties and claims of friendship, were as incapable of loading the scales to my prejudice.
ustekabean, egun hartan nitaz samurtasunez oroituak omen zirelako, saski bat bete fruta bidaliko ez zidaketenak, adibidez, baina, adiskidetasunaren betebeharren eta eskakizunen zuzenbidezko balantza beren irudimenaren eta sentikortasunaren apeta huts baten eraginez nire alderantz zertan makurrarazi beharrik gabe ere, gutxienez balantza hori nire kaltetan aizunduko ez zuketenak.