Upon that Chichikov turned to her, and was on the point of returning a reply at least no worse than that which would have been returned, under similar circumstances, by the hero of a fashionable novelette, when he stopped short, as though thunderstruck.
Are gehiago haserretu zen Txitxikov gertaturikoa buru argiz aztertu zuenean, orduan konturatu baitzen bera izan zela, neurri batean, erruduna.