Please to observe, my dear boy, that our conscience will have been a little damaged in the process, and that we shall endure twenty years of drudgery and hidden poverty, and that our sisters are wearing Dian's livery.
Ohar zaitez, haur maite hori, urratu batzuk egin izanen dizkiogula geure kontzientzia xumeari, hogei urtez nekeak eta isilpeko miseriak jasan eta gero, gure arrebak neskazahar egonen direla.