which circumstance ended by causing his mattress to become as ragged and as thin as a wafer. In addition to his love of poring over books, he could boast of two habits which constituted two other essential features of his character-namely, a habit of retiring to rest in his clothes (that is to say, in the brown jacket above-mentioned) and a habit of everywhere bearing with him his own peculiar atmosphere, his own peculiar smell-a smell which filled any lodging with such subtlety that he needed but to make up his bed anywhere, even in a room hitherto untenanted, and to drag thither his greatcoat and other impedimenta, for that room at once to assume an air of having been lived in during the past ten years.
oinetatik bururaino jantzirik lo egiten zuen, longaina bera ere erantzi gabe, eta halako usain berezi bat eramaten zuen beti gorputzari itsatsirik, logela batzuetan aditzen den kiratsaren antzekoa, eta hainbesterainokoa, ezen, edonora iritsirik, aski baitzuen longaina eta puska guztiak gela batera eramatea eta bere ohea zabaltzea usain berezi hura lekuaz jabe zedin, eta, ordu arte sekula inork erabili gabeko gela bazen ere, hamar urtean hor jendea bizi izana zela ematen zuen.