He, shorter than his wife, and very much more bent than he had been ten years before, at the time of our whispered talks from bench to bench in the Italian synagogue, was wearing one of his usual pale, light-weight linen suits, with a black ribboned panama hat pulled down over his thick pince-nez, and, as he walked, leaning on a bamboo cane.
Emaztea baino txikiago eta orduan hamar urte-Eskola Italiarrean banku batetik bestera egiten genituen solasaldi xuxurlatuen garaian-baino makurtuago, irakaslea oihal argiko bere traje arinetako batez jantzita zegoen, zinta beltzeko panama-kapela bat zuela pince-nez moduko lente lodien gainean ondo sartua, eta banbuzko makila batean sostengatzen zen ibiltzeko.