but he had not the feeling of being actually 'at the ball' when he found himself herded with the fathers of families in the bedroom of the lady of the house, while the spectacle of wash-hand-stands covered over with towels, and of beds converted into cloak-rooms, with a mass of hats and great-coats sprawling over their counterpanes, gave him the same stifling sensation that, nowadays, people who have been used for half a lifetime to electric light derive from a smoking lamp or a candle that needs to be snuffed.
baina ez zitzaion dantzaldi batean zegoenik iruditzen, baldin etxekoandrearen logelan hainbat aita familiakorekin egotera behartua kausitzen bazen, eta konketak izarez estalita, eta oheak arropazaindegi bihurtuta, eta berokiak eta kapeluak hango ohazaletan metatuta ikusteak itobeharraren sentsazioa ematen zion, gaur egun, dagoeneko hogei urtez elektrizitatera ohitua den jendeari, kriseilu baten ikatz errearen edo lanpara baten gas-jarioaren usainak emango liokeenaren antzekoa.