El senyor de mitja edat resulta ésser un prodigiós personatge; no altre que el jutge del comtat; la més augusta creació, en absolut, que aquells infants haguessin mai contemplat, i ells es demanaven de quina mena de material era bastit; i mig volien sentir-lo braolar i mig temien que arribés a fer-ho.
The middle-aged man turned out to be a prodigious personage--no less a one than the county judge--altogether the most august creation these children had ever looked upon--and they wondered what kind of material he was made of--and they half wanted to hear him roar, and were half afraid he might, too.