They were crowded any old how into the usual glass-fronted bookcases, quite at random, taking up most of the large walnut table over which very likely only the top of professor Ermanno's cap emerged when he sat down;
liburuek ordenarik gabe okupatzen zituzten ohiko apalategi kristaldunak, Ermanno irakasle jaunaren intxaur zurezko idazmahai handia-seguru aski, kapelugaina baino ez zitzaion ikusiko bertan eserita zegoenean-, aulkien gainean ere pilatuta zeuden, metak osatuz, kolokan, edota lurrean nonahi, hainbat multzotan.