one bony hand rested on the stone table before him, in the position a man assumes on rising from his seat, whilst his frame was bent forward so that the vertebræ of the neck and the grinning, gleaming skull projected towards us, and fixed its hollow eye-places upon us, the jaws a little open, as though it were about to speak.
esku hezurtsua mahai gainean jarrita zuen bere aurrean, gizonak zutik jarri nahi duenean jartzen duen eran, gorputza berriz aurreruntz okertua zuen, lepa-hezurrak eta buru-hezur distiratsu eta irribartsua guri begira, eta begien ieku izandako zuloak zuzen-zuzen gugan ezarrita, masail-hezurra aldiz pixka bat irekita, hitz egiteko asmoa balu bezala.