I was sure that Gilberte was coming to the Champs-Elysées, and I felt an elation which seemed merely the anticipation of a great happiness when-going into the drawing-room in the morning to kiss Mamma, who was already dressed to go out, the coils of her black hair elaborately built up, and her beautiful hands, plump and white, fragrant still with soap-I had been apprised, by seeing a column of dust standing by itself in the air above the piano, and by hearing a barrel-organ playing, beneath the window, En revenant de la revue, that the winter had received, until nightfall, an unexpected, radiant visit from a day of spring.
Ziur nengoen Gilberte etorri egingo zela Elisear Zelaietara, eta zoriontasun handi baten aitzindari lausoa iruditu zitzaidàn poz izugarria sentitu nuen-goizean goiz saloira sarturik, amari muxu ematera: kalerako janztea bukatu berri, bere ile-adats beltzen dorrea erabat orraztua, bere esku zuri guriei oraindik xaboi-usaina zeriela-, pianoaren gainean hauts-zirimola bat zutik eta geldirik nekusala, eta leihotik at, kalean, biraderadun organo bat En revenant de la revue jotzen nentzula, ohartu nintzenean, alegia, ezen Negua, egun hartan, eta arratsera arte, Udaberriaren ustekabeko bisita dirdaitsuari abegi egiten ari zitzaiola.