He no longer based his estimate of the merit of Odette's face on the more or less good quality of her cheeks, and the softness and sweetness-as of carnation-petals-which, he supposed, would greet his lips there, should he ever hazard an embrace, but regarded it rather as a skein of subtle and lovely silken threads, which his gazing eyes collected and wound together, following the curving line from the skein to the ball, where he mingled the cadence of her neck with the spring of her hair and the droop of her eyelids, as though from a portrait of herself, in which her type was made clearly intelligible.
Engoitik, ez zuen Odetteren begitartea beronen masailen mardultasun-kalitatearen arabera balioetsi, ezta inoiz muxu ematera ausart baledi haiek bere ezpainez ukitzerakoan jasoko zuela espero zuèn balizko gozotasun haragitsu hutsaren arabera ere, baizik eta lerro mehe eta ederrezko mataza baten gisa, bere begiradek harilkatu beharrekoa, lerroon kiribilduraren bihurdurari jarraiki, garondoaren kadentzia adatsen jariadurarekin eta betazalen tolesdurarekin elkartuz, beraren izaera-mota modu ulergarri eta argian jasoko lukeen erretratu bat osatuz, alegia.