One night, about one o'clock in the morning, Fabrizio, leaning upon his window-sill, had slipped his head through the door cut in his screen and was contemplating the stars and the immense horizon which one enjoyed from the summit of the Torre Farnese.
Gau batez, goizeko ordu batak aldera, Fabrice leihoan etzanda zegoen, burua argi-estalkian zulatutako leihatilatik kanpo, Farnese dorrearen goialdetik ikusmiran dagoen ostertza neurrigabeari eta izarrei begira.