he had long forgotten about his boss and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was glad when they disappeared.
Denbora luzearen ondotik, berriz ere, almazeneko zuzendari eta gerenteaz gogoratu zen, eta denda-mutil eta ikastunaz, ordenantza gatz gabeko hartaz, beste komertzio batzuetan zituen bizpahiru lagunez, eta herrixka bateko fondako neska zerbitzariaz, eta...