Sitting in the little parlour, where I would pass the time until dinner with a book, I might hear the water dripping from our chestnut-trees, but I would know that the shower would only glaze and brighten the greenness of their thick, crumpled leaves, and that they themselves had undertaken to remain there, like pledges of summer, all through the rainy night, to assure me of the fine weather's continuing;
Areto txikian eserita, afaltzeko orduaren zain irakurketan, ura entzuten nuen gure gaztainondoei turrustan zeriela, baina banekien zaparradak bernizatzen besterik ez ziharduela haien hostoak, eta hauek, udaren bahituri, zin zegitela hantxe iraungo zutela, gau euritsu osoan barrena, eguraldi ederraren jarraikortasunaren berme;