So then, suddenly, his daughter would leap out, as though from a beleaguered city, would make a sortie, turn the street corner, and, having risked her life a hundred times over, reappear and bring us, with a jug of liquorice-water, the news that there were still at least a thousand of them, pouring along without a break from the direction of Thiberzy and Méséglise.
Orduan, bat-batean, haren alaba, hiri setiatu batetik bezalatsu, irten egiten zen, karrika-kantoira inguratzen eta, bizia ehun bider arriskatu ondoren, albistari itzultzen zen guregana, koko-ur txanbil bat garraio, esanez ezen milaren bat-edo ba omen zirela oraindik trostan zetozenak zamalka, Thiberzy eta Méséglise aldetik.