From gates far apart the watchdogs, awakened by our steps in the silence, would set up an antiphonal barking, as I still hear them bark, at times, in the evenings, and it is in their custody (when the public gardens of Combray were constructed on its site) that the Boulevard de la Gare must have taken refuge, for wherever I may be, as soon as they begin their alternate challenge and acceptance, I can see it again with all its lime-trees, and its pavement glistening beneath the moon.
Burdin hesi bata bestetik urrun samar zeudenen atzetik, gure urrats bakartiek iratzarririk, zaunka-txanda errepikatuei ekiten zieten hainbat txakurrek-oraindik ere zenbait arratsetan haiek entzuten ditudala iruditzen zait-, eta or haien artera joana dateke seguru asko babes bila geltokiko zumardia bera ere (hura zegoèn kokalekuan egin zuten Combrayko lorategi publikoa), zeren, nagoen tokian nagoela, adausiak durundika eta elkarri oihartzunka aditzen ditudan aldiro, beti zumardi huraxe ikusten baitut gogamenean, hango ezkiak eta hango ilargi-argipeko espaloia.