While the parson, puffing on his long peasant pipe, played his usual three evening games of chess with the local constable, the lank-haired blond boy squatted silently beside them and gazed at the checkered board from beneath his heavy eyelids, seemingly somnolent and indifferent.
Gauean, erretoreak, pipa luzeari hurrupaka, jendarmeriako brigadierrarekin bere ohiko hiru partidak jokatzen zituen bitartean, mutiko horaila haren alboan eserita egoten zen, mutu, eta taula laukidunari begira-begira egoten zitzaion bere betazal astunen azpitik, itxuraz loguratsu eta axolagabe.