but, striving to compensate by the intensity of his feelings for the somewhat restricted field in which they had to find expression, he made that blue chink, which was set apart for us, sparkle with all the animation of cordiality, which went far beyond mere playfulness, and almost touched the border-line of roguery; he subtilised the refinements of good-fellowship into a wink of connivance, a hint, a hidden meaning, a secret understanding, all the mysteries of complicity in a plot, and finally exalted his assurances of friendship to the level of protestations of affection, even of a declaration of love, lighting up for us, and for us alone, with a secret and languid flame invisible by the great lady upon his other side, an enamoured pupil in a countenance of ice.
baina, bere sentimenduaren adierazpena mugarritzen zuèn esparru inondik ere estuegi hura sentimendu berorren intentsitateaz nolabait orekatu nahian, esleitua zitzaigùn urdin-kantoi txiki hartan distirarazi zuen, distirarazi zuenez, onginahiaren bizitasun osoa, arraitasuna gaindituz, maleziaraino ere iritsiz ia;