so that, on the host remembering the creature, and, with fork in hand, leading the way in its direction and saying, "What, gentlemen, think you of this striking product of nature?" there ensued the discovery that of the said product of nature there remained little beyond the tail, while Sobakevitch, with an air as though at least HE had not eaten it, was engaged in plunging his fork into a much more diminutive piece of fish which happened to be resting on an adjacent platter.
Txitxikovek, beste zeregin guztiak bertan behera utzirik, buru-belarri ekin zien dantzaldirako prestamenei, zeren, izan ere, pisu handiko arrazoiak baitzituen horretarako.