From time to time, at regular intervals, the station manager stepped out of his office and, each time with an identical turn of his head, looked up the broad stretch of track to the signals of the guard's hut, which still failed to announce the approach of the express train that had been subject to a long delay at the border; then, with the same movement of his arm he drew out his pocket watch, shook his head and disappeared again; like the coming and going of the figures that step out of old church clocks to announce the hour.
Erlojua patrikatik ateratzen zuen besoaz mugimendu berbera orain eta berriro eginik, burua astindu, eta desagertu egiten zen atzera, ordua jotzean dorre-erloju zaharretako irudiak sartu eta irteten diren bezala.