indeed, the visage might have been taken for that of a sun-dried corpse had it not been for a pair of large black eyes, still full of fire and intelligence, which gleamed and played under the snow-white eyebrows, and the projecting parchment-coloured skull, like jewels in a charnel-house.
Aurpegia eguzkitan lehortu den gorpu batetik hartua izan zitekeen, begi pare handi beltzengatik ez balitz, suz eta adimenez beteak bait zituen oraindik, bekain zuri zurien eta pergamu koloreko buru-hezur irtenaren azpian distiratsu eta jostari, harri-bitxiak bailiren hezurtegi batean.