On those evenings when, as we sat in front of the house beneath the big chestnut-tree and round the iron table, we heard, from the far end of the garden, not the large and noisy rattle which heralded and deafened as he approached with its ferruginous, interminable, frozen sound any member of the household who had put it out of action by coming in 'without ringing,' but the double peal-timid, oval, gilded-of the visitors' bell, everyone would at once exclaim "A visitor!
Baldin eta arratsaldez, etxe aurreko gaztainondoaren pean, burdinazko mahaiaren inguruan, lorategiaren urruneko ertzean, eserita geundela, zera aditzen bagenuen, ez kriskitin-soinu gangar eta oihukari hura, alegia, zarata burdin aireko, hisiatu eta izoztu hura, norbait "deitu gabe" sartzerakoan denok asaldatu ohi gintuena, baizik eta bestea, arrotzen ezkilatxoaren dilin-hots bikoitz herabe, obal eta doratu hura, denok galdetzen genuen berehala: