'Had such clever little manikins ever in their lives,' he thought, taking the idea further, 'lain beneath a lonely wall and been startled by every trickle behind the mortar, as though something dead was trying to find the words to talk to them?
Egon ote dira gizontxo burutsu horiek, inoiz beren bizitzan-jarraitu zuen ildo horretatik-, murru bakarti baten oinean etzanda, eta ikaratu ote dira inoiz eustorearen atzetik datozkien murmurioengatik, hilik dagoen zerbaitek haiekin hitz egiteko modua bilatuko bailuen?