But the nightshade of his friend's listlessness seemed to be diffusing in the air around him a tenuous and deadly exhalation and He found himself glancing from one casual word to another on his right or left in stolid wonder that they had been so silently emptied of instantaneous sense until every mean shop legend bound his mind like the words of a spell and his soul shrivelled up sighing with age as he walked on in a lane among heaps of dead language.
edozein denda-letrero ziztrinek sorginkeriazko hitzek bezala gatibatzen zion gogoa eta arima zimeltzen zihoakion, zaharreriaz hasperenka, hizkuntza hil mordoen artetik bidean aurrera zihoalarik. Hizkuntzaren zentzua garunetik urruntzen eta hitz hutsetan jaulkitzen zihoakion eta hitzak erritmo menderakaitzetan elkartzen eta banantzen has, ziren: