The scent, the smile, but, more than these, the dark eyes and oleaginous address, brought home at duskfall many a commission to the head of the firm, seated with Jacob's pipe after like labours in the paternal ingle (a meal of noodles, you may be sure, is aheating), reading through round horned spectacles some paper from the Europe of a month before.
Lurrinak, irriak, bai, bainan horiek baino gehiago, begi beltz eta manera urintsuek zuten ekartzen etxerat ilunabarrean komisione frango enpresaburuarendako, Jakoben pipa erretzera jarria izanen baitzen etxeko supazterrean, gisa bereko lanetan ihardun ondoren (espaghetti otordu bat, ziur izan, epeltzen ari da), hilabete lehenagoko egunkari europarren bat leitzen bururen buru adarkizko armazoineko betaurrekoez.