Rays of light were straying through the trellis, the vine leaves threw their shadows on the sand, the jasmines perfumed the air, the heavens were blue, Spanish flies buzzed round the lilies in bloom, and Charles was suffocating like a youth beneath the vague love influences that filled his aching heart.
A vadszőllővel befuttatott rácsozaton keresztül sugárzott a nap, s a szőlőlevelek árnyéka lerajzolódott a homokra. A jázmin illatozott, az ég kék volt, a virágzó liliomok körül kőrisbogarak zümmögtek.