The mother clasped her hands to her breast, looked about, and saw that the crowd, before so dense, was now standing irresolute, watching the comrades walk away from them with the banner, followed by about a dozen people, one of whom, however, at every forward move, jumped aside as if the path in the middle of the street were red hot and burned his soles.
-burrunba egin zuen garrasi koleratsu batek. Amak eskuak bularrera bildu, inguruetara begiratu eta ikusi zuen jendetza, lehen kalea alderik alde trinko betetzen zuena, aiko-maiko eta ezbaian zegoela, bandera aurrera eramanik multzotik bereizi berriak zirenei begira. Haien atzetik hamarnaka batzuk zihoazen, baina aurrera emandako urrats bakoitzak albo batera jauzi eragiten zion norbaiti, kalearen erdiko aldea gori-gori egon eta oin-zolak erreko balitu bezala. Eroriko da nagusikeria...