But in the case of the silence that enfolded his friend, it was so compact, and harmonized so closely with the silence of the streets and the town liberated from the plague, that Rieux really felt that this time it was the definitive defeat, the one that ends wars and makes of peace itself an irremediable suffering.
Baina hain zen trinkoa oraingoan bere laguna inguratzen zuena, hain estuki zetorren bat kaleetako eta izurritetik libratutako isiltasunarekin, ezen oraingoan erabateko porrota suertatu zenaz jabetu baitzen, gerrak bukatu eta bakeaz sendaezinezko sufrimendua egiten duen porrota izan ere.