Llucifer mateix que hagués estat, hauria pogut acoblar una pila de curts de gambals, decidits a escritotejar llurs noms al peu d'una súplica de perdó i a deixar caure damunt ella una llagrima de ses canals d'aigua, sempre perjudicades i traspuadores.
If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon-petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky water-works.