Just as well to keep still and look out of the window as the gray velvet of evening took hold of the avenue, house by house, first the smallest, then the others; in the end the big ones are taken, too, and the people moving about in between, more and more faint, vague and blurred, hesitating as they pass from sidewalk to sidewalk before vanishing into the darkness.
Hobe nuen isilik egon eta kanpora begiratu, leihotik, Ilunabarraren baluxa grisek aurreko etorbidea nola menderatzen zuten etxez-etxe, aurrena txikienak eta hurrena besteak, haundi horiek ere harrapatzen ditu noizpait, eta hurrenago hor erdian hara-honaka dabilen jendea ere bai, gero eta makalagoak, ekibokoagoak, hitsagoak, espaloi batetik bestera zalantzan ilunpean urtutzera joan baino lehen.