If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced--
Ha ez az ismeretlen rám mosolyog, és kedélyesen felel kérdéseimre, ha vidáman megköszöni és visszautasítja ajánlatomat, továbbmentem volna, és nem zaklatom újabb kérdésekkel.