It is not at all with the dreadful sin of murder that the public blames you, it is solely with the clumsiness, or rather the insolence of not having condescended to have recourse to a bulo" (a sort of hired assassin). "I give you a summary here in clear terms of the things that I hear said all around me, for since this ever deplorable misfortune, I go every day to three of the principal houses in the town to have an opportunity of justifying you.
Jendeak ez zaitu hilketako bekatu izugarri horregatik gaitzesten, bulo bat (agindupeko jipoi-emaile gisako bat) erabili ez izanaren baldarkeria edo, areago, nabarmenkeria baizik ez dizute arbuiatzen. Hitz argitan itzultzen dizkizut hemen inguruan entzuten ditudan solasak, zeren eta, betiko negargarria izango den ezbehar horrez geroztik, egunero joaten bainaiz hiriko hiru etxe handientsutara zure jokabidea zuritzen ahalegintzera.