She leaned back far to look up where the fireworks were and she caught her knee in her hands so as not to fall back looking up and there was no-one to see only him and her when she revealed all her graceful beautifully shaped legs like that, supply soft and delicately rounded, and she seemed to hear the panting of his heart, his hoarse breathing, because she knew too about the passion of men like that, hotblooded, because Bertha Supple told her once in dead secret and made her swear she'd never about the gentleman lodger that was staying with them out of the Congested Districts Board that had pictures cut out of papers of those skirtdancers and highkickers and she said he used to do something not very nice that you could imagine sometimes in the bed.
Atzerantz okertu zen, suziriak zeuden aldera begiratzeko, eta belauna eskuen artean hartu zuen, gora begira zegoela ez erortzeko atzeraka, eta ez zegoen inor bera ikusteko, hura eta biak bakarrik zeuden berak agerian jarri zituenean bere zango lirain ederki torneatuak, malgu bezain bigunak eta beteak baina finak aldi berean, eta iruditu zitzaion entzuten zituela haren bihotzaren taupadak, zeren berak ere bai baitzuen halako gizon odolberoen pasioaren berri; izan ere, Bertha Supplek esan zion behin, sekreturik isilpekoenean eta zin eraginda ez zuela ezer sekula esango, zer ibiltzen zen Eskualde Andeatuen Batzordeko jaun hura, etxean ostatuz zeukatena eta paretetan aldizkarietatik hartutako dantzari gona-motx eta hanka-gorazale horien irudiak zeuzkana, hain zuzen ere, oso gauza polita ez zen zerbait egiten aritzen zela, ez zaizu asko kostako imajinatzea zer, ohean, batzuetan. Baina hori, ordea, bestelakoa zen halako gauza baten aldean;