The first of these days-to which the snow, a symbol of the powers that were able to deprive me of the sight of Gilberte, imparted the sadness of a day of separation, almost the aspect of a day of departure, because it changed the outward form and almost forbade the use of the customary scene of our only encounters, now altered, covered, as it were, in dust-sheets-that day, none the less, marked a stage in the progress of my love, for it was, in a sense, the first sorrow that she was to share with me.
Egun haietako lehenbizikoan-halakoei, izan ere, elurrak, Gilberte ikustea eragotz ziezadaketèn halabehar ahaltsuen irudiak, banantze-egun baten tristura ez ezik, behin betiko aldentzearena ere eman ohi zien-eta, gure elkar ikuste bakanen ohiko lekuaren itxura aldatzen zuelako eta, aldatutakoan, haren erabilera ia galarazten ere bai, dena zuriz estalirik-, lehenbiziko egun hartan, diot, aurrerapen handia egin zuen nire amodioak, Gilbertek nirekin partekaturiko lehen atsekabearen adierazgarri-edo izan zelako.