With Miss Lydia on his arm he was able to talk in perfect freedom-for Colomba had stayed in the town to do her shopping, and the colonel was perpetually leaving the young people to fire shots at sea-gulls and gannets, greatly to the astonishment of the passers-by, who could not conceive why any man should waste his powder on such paltry game.
Miss Lydiari besoa emanez, askatasun guztiaz hitz egin zezakeen, Colomba hirira erosketak egitera joan zelako eta koronela kaioei tiro egiteko noiznahi aldentzen zelako.