'And I, my dear,' said Rachel, with a tremble in her voice, 'have known him through them all, to be, according to his quiet ways, so faithful to everything honest and good, that if he was never to be heard of more, and I was to live to be a hundred years old, I could say with my last breath, God knows my heart.
"Eta, laztana" esan zuen Rachaelek, ahotsa dardarka, "urte guztietan ikusi dut nolakoa zen, zein isil eta apal zebilen, hain leiala gauza zintzo ta on guztiekin, inoiz'e be'e berri jakingo ez bagenu, ta ni ehun urtez biziko banintz, azken arnasa botatzean hauxe esan nezakeela: