He turned from his own class and his own quarter, taking nothing but a little bread as he walked along, towards the hill on which his principal employer lived, in a red house with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black street door, up two white steps, BOUNDERBY (in letters very like himself) upon a brazen plate, and a round brazen door-handle underneath it, like a brazen full-stop.
Bere klasetik eta bere auzotik abiatu zen, ogi pixka bat baizik ez zuela berekin hartu biderako, bere ugazaba bizi zen muinorantz, haren etxeraino heltzeko. Etxea goma zen eta albate beltzak zituen kanpoan, pertsiana berdeak barruan, kaleko ate beltza, bi maila aurrean, BOUNDERBY (gizonaren antzeko letrak hauek) brontzezko plaka baten gainean, eta beherago, brontzezko ate maratila biribil bat, brontzezko puntu eta segi baten antzera.