The leaves, which had lost or altered their own appearance, assumed those instead of the most incongruous things imaginable, as though the transparent wings of flies or the blank sides of labels or the petals of roses had been collected and pounded, or interwoven as birds weave the material for their nests.
Orriek, beren jitea galdurik edo aldaturik, gauzarik bitxienen itxura zeukaten, euli-hego garden batena, etiketa baten ifrentzu zuriarena, arrosa-hosto batena, baina denak elkarren kontra metaturik, birrindurik edo txirikordaturik, habia bat egiterakoan bezalatsu.