Yet (I continued) the Baron's offensive behaviour to me of yesterday (that is to say, the fact of his referring the matter to the General) as well as his insistence that the General should deprive me of my post, had placed me in such a position that I could not well express my regret to him (the Baron) and to his good lady, for the reason that in all probability both he and the Baroness, with the world at large, would imagine that I was doing so merely because I hoped, by my action, to recover my post.
Baroiak, ordea, atzo niretzat modu iraingarrian jeneralagana joaz eta gogor eginaz jeneralak etxetik egotz nindezan, halako egoeran jarri nau non orain ezin baitiot barkamen eskaririk aurkeztu berari eta baronesari, zeren bai berak, bai baronesak eta bai denek ere uste izango bailukete beldurrez joan natzaiela barkamen eske, nire postua berreskuratzeko.