And as he knelt, calming the last sobs in his throat and feeling the burning tingling pain pressed into his sides, he thought of the hands which he had held out in the air with the palms up and of the firm touch of the prefect of studies when he had steadied the shaking fingers and of the beaten swollen reddened mass of palm and fingers that shook helplessly in the air.
Eta belaunikatu zenean, eztarriko azken zotinak bareturik eta oinaze sumin zaztakorra aldamenetan estuturik sentituz, barruaz gainera airean luzatu eskuak, estudioetako prefektuak behatz dardaratiak zuzendu zizkioneko ukitu irmoa eta airean babesgabe astintzen zen ahur-behatz masa belun hazia gogoratu zituen.