and, as she sat knitting behind her counter, she serenely scanned the market square, where numerous urchins were poking about in the soil under the gratings which protected the roots of the plane-trees, while porters smoked their pipes on the benches along the footway, at either end of which was an advertisement column covered with theatrical posters, alternately green, yellow, red, and blue, like some harlequin's costume.
merkatu nagusiaren kaleko postuei begiratzen zien lasai, puntu egiten; espaloia alprojez borborrean zegoen, lurrean aztarrika, han landaturiko platanoen burdin hesien azpian; zamaketariak pipa erretzen zuten postuen ilaran; espaloiaren bi muturretan, antzerki afixez beteriko bi iragarki zutabe zeuden, karratu berde, hori, gorri, urdinez estalirik, arlekinen antzera jantziak.