He now looks back smiling and at rest on the delusions of this world, which once were able to move and agonise his spirit also, but which now stand before him as utterly indifferent to him, as the chess-men when the game is ended, or as, in the morning, the cast-off masquerading dress which worried and disquieted us in a night in Carnival.
Lasai eta irribarrez begiratzen die mundu honetako irudi lilurazkoei, zeinak garai batean bere gogamena higitu eta atsekabetzeko gai baitziren, baina orain jokoa amaitu ondoren xakeko figurak bezain axolagabe baitaude bere aurrean, edo goizean jaurtitako mozorroak bezala, zeinen taxuak inauteri-gauean txantxetan eta zirikatzen ibili baitzaizkigu.