A CANDLE faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies;
Kandela batek argi motela ematen zuen leiho ondoan; izan ere, haraino igo baitzuten sarritan eskailera beltza, gela hartatik kanpora lerratzeko emazte lehiatsu batentzat eta dozenaka haurtxo gosetirentzat mundu honetan zegoen gauzarik baliotsuena.