He listened without sympathy to his father's evocation of Cork and of scenes of his youth, a tale broken by sighs or draughts from his pocket flask whenever the image of some dead friend appeared in it or whenever the evoker remembered suddenly the purpose of his actual visit.
Atxikimenik gabe entzuten zituen aitaren Corkeko oroitzapen eta gaztetako pasarteak; kontakizuna, hildako lagunen baten aipua egiten zen bakoitzean edo oroitzailea oraingo bidai honen xedeaz gogoratzen zen bakoitzean, hasperenek zein patrikan zeraman flaskotiko zurrutadek eteten zuten.