Solitariness, the foreign environment, and the joy of an intoxication of feeling that had come to him so late and affected him so profoundly-all this encouraged and persuaded him to indulge himself in the most astonishing ways: as when it had happened that late one evening, returning from Venice and reaching the first floor of the hotel, he had paused outside the boy's bedroom door, leaning his head against the doorframe in a complete drunken ecstasy, and had for a long time been unable to move from the spot, at the risk of being surprised and discovered in this insane situation.
Bakardadeak, atzerriak eta horditasun berantiar eta sakon baten zorionak arrarokeriarik handienetara adoretu eta bultzatzen zuten, beldurrik eta lotsarik gabe, Veneziatik berandu itzuli zen gau batean bezala, hotelaren lehen solairuan mutiko ederraren ate aurrean gelditu, bekokia bertan bermatu, erabat mozkorturik, eta bertatik luzaroan aldendu ezin izan zuenean bezala, hain jarrera zentzugabean ustekabez harrapatua izateko arriskuarekin,