everyone laughed at a ridiculous lover who, at the age of fifty-six, was sacrificing a magnificent position to his grief at being abandoned by a heartless woman, who moreover had long ago shewn her preference for a young man.
mundu guztia iseka ari zitzaion maitale barregarri hari, ez baitzion, bada, berrogeita hamasei urterekin, postu ezin bikainagoa sakrifikatu emakume bihozgabe bat bere ondotik alde egin izanaren tristurari, nahiz aspalditik hobetsia zuen hark mutil gazte bat bera baino.