And then along the highroad, spreading out its long ribbon of dust, along the deep lanes that the trees bent over as in arbours, along paths where the corn reached to the knees, with the sun on his back and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the joys of the past night, his mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they are digesting.
Eta orduan, hauts zerrenda luzea bukaerarik gabe hedatzen zuen errepide nagusian barrena, zuhaitzak gangadura gisa makurtzen ziren murko-bideetan zehar, gariak belaunetaraino iristen zitzaizkion bidexiorretan aurrera, bere bizkarretan eguzkia eta bere sudurretan goizeko airea, bihotza gaueko zorionez beterik, izpiritua bare, haragia pozik, han joaten zen bere zorionaren hausnarrean, afaldu eta gerora ere lisirtzen ari diren trufen gustua artean murtxikatzen dutenak bezala.