The sandglass proved to me that I had slept barely an hour, but a brief moment of complete repose, at my age, is equal to sleep which formerly lasted throughout half a revolution of the stars;
Harea-erlojuak zehazki erakutsi zidan doi-doi ordubete eskas egona nintzela lotan. Nire adinean, lo-xuma labur bat, bizitzako beste sasoi batzutan asturuen jira eta iraulketa-erdi bat suposa zezaketen lotaldi luze haien adinakoa da, inondik ere;