One of them was filled from top to bottom by a solitary figure, like the king on a playing-card, who lived up there beneath his canopy of stone, between earth and heaven; and in the blue light of its slanting shadow, on weekdays sometimes, at noon, when there was no service (at one of those rare moments when the airy, empty church, more human somehow and more luxurious with the sun shewing off all its rich furnishings, seemed to have almost a habitable air, like the hall-all sculptured stone and painted glass-of some mediaeval mansion), you might see Mme. Sazerat kneel for an instant, laying down on the chair beside her own a neatly corded parcel of little cakes which she had just bought at the baker's and was taking home for her luncheon.
haietariko bat pertsonaia bakar batek betetzen zuen bere handitasun osoan, karta-jokoko Errege bat han goian bizi zena iduri, errezel arkitekturazko baten pean, zeru-lurren artean (eta zeinaren zehar-isla urdinean, zenbait astegunetan, eguerdiz, elizkizunik ez zegoenean-une bakan haietako batean non elizak aire hutsezko, gizatiarrago, oparoago, eguzkiak haren altzari aberatsetan dirdai zegiela, ia habitagarri baitzirudien, Erdi Aroko estilodun hotel bateko zenbait ezkaratz harlanduzko eta beira margotuzkoren gisa-, ikus baitzitekeen lipar batez nola belaunikatzen zen Sazerat andrea, aldameneko otoitz-aulkian pausatzen zuelarik eliza aurreko gozogilearenean erosi berria zuèn eta bazkaritara zeramàn pakete listariz josi bat bete hostopil);