And although Malnate, looking faintly reluctant, accused me of "cheap decadentism", in his heart he too enjoyed going up to the dusty piazzale after supper at the Voltini, pausing to eat a slice of melon by the acetylene lamp of the water-melon man, or to put in a half-hour's shooting at the booths.
Eta Malnatek, apur bat gogoz kontra arrastatu dutenaren aireaz, "dekadentismo merkeaz" salatzen ninduen arren, funtsean berari ere atsegin zitzaion Voltinin afaldu eta gero hara igotzea, zabaldi hautsez bete hartara, angurri xerra bat jaten geratzea meloi saltzailearen postuko azetileno-lanpararen ondoan, edo tiro-barrakan hogei minutuz aritzea.