in a sort of alcove without walls, a cave of warmth dug out of the heart of the room itself, a zone of heat whose boundaries were constantly shifting and altering in temperature as gusts of air ran across them to strike freshly upon my face, from the corners of the room, or from parts near the window or far from the fireplace which had therefore remained cold-or rooms in summer, where I would delight to feel myself a part of the warm evening, where the moonlight striking upon the half-opened shutters would throw down to the foot of my bed its enchanted ladder;
non, eguraldi izoztua delarik, sentitzen dugun plazera kanpoaldearekiko aldearena izaten baita (itsas ainarak bezala, honek ere lurpeko zulo baten hondoan ezartzen baitu bere habia lurraren berotasunean), eta non, suari gau osoan piztuta eusten baitzaio tximinian, etengabe berpizten diren ilintien erlantzez dirdaitzen den aire bero eta ketsuzko beroki-moduko baten baitan lo egiten baitugu, etzauntza ukiezin bat dirudien estalgarria, gelaren beraren barruan zulaturiko leize-zulo bero bat, gune sukartu eta hotz-berotan aldakorra, tarteka freskatu egiten baitigute begitartea gela-ertzetatik, leiho-ondoetatik, edo sutondotik urrun daudelako atzera berriz hoztu diren gainerako bazterretatik datozen aire-boladek;