In the cloak-room, into which, in the old days, when he was still a man of fashion, he would have gone in his overcoat, to emerge from it in evening dress, but without any impression of what had occurred there, his mind having been, during the minute or two that he had spent in it, either still at the party which he had just left, or already at the party into which he was just about to be ushered, he now noticed, for the first time, roused by the unexpected arrival of so belated a guest, the scattered pack of splendid effortless animals, the enormous footmen who were drowsing here and there upon benches and chests, until, pointing their noble greyhound profiles, they towered upon their feet and gathered in a circle round about him.
Ezkaratzean, non behiala, munduzale ohikoa zenean, soingainekoa soinean sartzen eta bertatik fraka jantzita irteten baitzen, baina ezkaratzean bertan gertatzen zenari batere erreparatu gabe-han pasatzen zituèn ereti laburretan, pentsamenduz ez baitzegoen bertan, baizik eta kitatu berria zuèn jaialdian edota bertaratzeko iragartzear zegoenekoan-, orain, ordea, estreinako aldiz hauteman zuen nola zutitzen zen, gonbidatu berantiar baten ustekabeko iritsierak iratzarririk, beren eper-or profil zorrotz nobleak altxatuz, han-hemenka zizeilu eta kutxen gainean eserita lo-suman zeudèn morroi-otseinen aldra bikain soraiotua, eta nola birbiltzen zen etorri berriaren inguruan zirkulua eratuz.