but, either because a ray of sunlight had gleamed through it or because my own shifting vision had drawn across the window, whose colours died away and were rekindled by turns, a rare and transient fire-the next instant it had taken on all the iridescence of a peacock's tail, then shook and wavered in a flaming and fantastic shower, distilled and dropping from the groin of the dark and rocky vault down the moist walls, as though it were along the bed of some rainbow grotto of sinuous stalactites that I was following my parents, who marched before me, their prayer-books clasped in their hands;
baina, zela errainu batek distira zegielako, zela nire begiradak berak, mugitzerakoan, beiradura aldiz itzali aldiz irazekian halako sute higikor eta ikusgarri bat herrestan zeramalako, pauma-isats baten eztanda aldakorraren itxura hartu ohi zuen halakoetan beiradura hark, eta jarraian dardaratzen eta uhinka jausten ganga ilun eta harritsutik euri sugartsu eta fantasiatsu baten tantakadan, horma hezeetan behera, ustez ezen estalaktita sigi-sagakariz ortzadarturiko harperen bateko nabean barrena nindoala gurasoen atzetik, hauek nork bere meza-liburua aldean zeramatela;