and as they sat together on the sofa he would suddenly, and for some unknown reason, lay aside his pipe, and she her work (if at the moment she happened to be holding it in her hands) and husband and wife would imprint upon one another's cheeks such a prolonged and languishing kiss that during its continuance you could have smoked a small cigar.
Eta, sarri askotan, biak dibanean eseririk zeudela, bat-batean, horretarako arrazoi berezirik ez bazegoen ere, batak pipa utzi, besteak joste-lana baztertu-baldin eta une horretan eskuetan bazeukan-, eta musu motel bat ematen zioten elkarri, hain luzea, ezen bitarte horretan zigarrotxo bat patxadaz erretzeko adina denbora baitzegoen.