And when I recalled, later, what I had felt at the time, I could distinguish the impression of having been held, for a moment, in her mouth, myself, naked, without, any longer, any of the social qualifications which belonged equally to her other companions and, when she used my surname, to my parents, accessories of which her lips-by the effort that she made, a little after her father's manner, to articulate the words to which she wished to give a special value-had the air of stripping, of divesting me, as one peels the skin from a fruit of which one is going to put only the pulp into one's mouth, while her glance, adapting itself to the same new degree of intimacy as her speech, fell on me also more directly, not without testifying to the consciousness, the pleasure, even the gratitude that it felt, accompanying itself with a smile.
Eta, gerora, orduan sentitu nuena gogora ekartzean, sentimendu hartan inpresio bati antzematen nion: istant batez bere ahoan edukia ninduela Gilbertek, ni neu, osorik, biluzik, eta haren ezpainek erabat erantzia nindutela gizalegezko formalismo orotatik, hauek beste batzuei zegozkielako nonbait, dela bere lagunei, dela nire gurasoei, nire abizena esaten zuenean-kostata esan ere, behartuta bezala ahoskatuz, justu bere aitak egin ohi zuèn legez, hitzen bat edo beste nabarmenarazi nahi zuenean-; hau da, bazirudien haren ezpainek zuritua nindutela erabat, azal osoaz gabetua, bere mamia besterik jan ez daitekeen fruta bat banintz bezala, eta bitartean haren begiradak, hitzak erdietsia zuèn intimitate-maila berri berean bere burua kokatuz, zuzenago atzematen ninduela, baita lorpen horretaz jabetzen zelako kontzientzia, plazera eta are esker ona ere aditzera emanez irribarre baten laguntzaz.