The specters of the past had been exorcised for years, though they were, of course, to be found hidden in everything, and it was they that made food taste bitter and company seem boring i but it was a long time since they had shown their true faces 5 now they came leaping out, accompanied by the ghastly laughter of irreparable disaster.
Urteak ziren exorzizatuta zeudela iraganeko mamuak; jakina, alde orotan zeuden ezkutaturik, eta haiengatik iruditzen zitzaion mingotsa janaria, aspergarriak lagunak; baina haien egiazko aurpegia aspalditik ez zen agertzen; orain berriz azaltzen ziren, konpondu ezinezko ezbeharren barregarritasun goibeltsuan bildurik.