Since he would have fallen at his first step he did not dare move from the spot, and was nevertheless full of wretched exuberance, clutching at everyone who approached him, babbling, winking, sniggering, lifting his ringed and wrinkled forefinger as he uttered some bantering inanity, and licking the corners of his mouth with the tip of his tongue in a repellently suggestive way.
Nola lehen pausuan eroriko zatekeen, ez zen ematera ausartzen, baina hantuste negargarri bat erakusten zuen eta totelka onatzen zien hurbiltzen zitzaion guztiaren botoiei, keinu eta barre txiki trufazkoen artean bere hatz erakusle zimur eta eraztunez estalia txantxa tentelen bat ospatzeko, eta aldi berean zeharo modu bikoitz batez aho-bazterrak mihi-puntaz milikatzen zituen bitartean.