and all day the stream of gloomy tenderness within him had started forth and returned upon itself in dark courses and eddies, wearying him in the end until the pleasantry of the prefect and the painted little boy had drawn from him a movement of impatience.
eta atzera eta aurrera ibili zitzaion egun osoan barrengo samurtasun goibelezko uholdea korronte lasai eta zurrunbilo ilunetan, azkenean nekatzeraino, harik eta prefektuaren txantxak eta mutil txiki margotuak egonezina sortu zioten arte.