And falling precipitately upon a prayer-book bound in purple velvet, with gilt clasps, out of which in her haste she let fall a shower of the little pictures, each in a lace fringe of yellowish paper, which she used to mark the places of the greater feasts of the church, my aunt, while she swallowed her drops, began at full speed to mutter the words of the sacred text, its meaning being slightly clouded in her brain by the uncertainty whether the pepsin, when taken so long after the Vichy, would still be able to overtake it and to 'send it down.' "Three o'clock! It's unbelievable how time flies."
Eta, arrapataka helduz meza-liburu belus bioletaz azaleztatu eta urrez xaflatuari, nondik, presaren ondorioz, erori baitzitzaizkion festaburu-egunen orrialdeak markatzeko ohi zerabiltzàn paper horixkazko parpailadun banda batez azpilduriko irudi batzuk, izebak, bere tantoak irenstearekin bat, irakurtzeari ekin zion, ahalik eta arinen, testu sakratuak, berauen ulerkuntza apur bat lanbrotzen bazion ere zera ez jakitearen zalantzak, ea pepsina, Vichy ura baino dezente beranduago hartua izanik, gai izango ote zen ur hartaraino iritsi eta ur hura bideratzeko.