A tremulous chill blew round his heart, no stronger than a little wind, and yet, listening and suffering silently, he seemed to have laid an ear against the muscle of his own heart, feeling it close and quail, listening to the flutter of its ventricles.
Hotzikara batek inguratu zion bihotza, ez haize leun bat baino indartsuagoak, baina, hala ere, isiltasunean entzunez eta sufrituz, bihotzaren muskuluaren kontra belarria jarrita bezala entzuten zuen bentrikuluen pilpira hurbil eta ikaratua.