It was as if the death which people were preparing for him, had made him bare, had torn away from him the magnificence and splendor which had surrounded him-and it was hard to believe that it was he who had so much power, that his body was but an ordinary plain human body that must have perished terribly in the flame and roar of a monstrous explosion.
Ohe-jantzi hutsean, mugimendu urduriek bizarra nahasirik, begi haserreekin, goi-mailako funtzionarioak loezinak eta arnasestuak jotako beste edozein agure suminkorren antza zuen. Bazirudien berarentzat prestatzen ari ziren heriotzak biluzi egin zuela, bere ohiko jauntasun eta arrandia neurrigabe guztiaz gabetu zuela, eta nekez sinets zitekeen hain botere handia zeukanik, haren gorputza, giza gorputz hain arrunt eta besteak bezalako hura, modu ikaragarrian hil zitekeenik, berealdiko eztanda baten su eta danbatekoan.