The forms of the community emerged from the gust-blown vestments, the dean of studies, the portly florid bursar with his cap of grey hair, the president, the little priest with feathery hair who wrote devout verses, the squat peasant form of the professor of economics, the tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes, the grave troubled prefect of the sodality, the plump round-headed professor of Italian with his rogue's eyes.
Haizeak puztu jantzietatik komunitateko giza itxurak irteten ziren: estudioetako dekanoa, diruzain galant musugorria bere ile-jantzi grisarekin, lehendakaria, deboziozko olerkiak idazten zituen apaiz txiki lumatxaren antzeko ilea zuena, ekonomiako irakaslearen baserritar soinkera okertua, zientzia mentaleko irakasle gaztearen figura garaia eskailburuan kontzientzi kasu bat bere klasearekin eztabaidatzen, antilope samalda baten erdian goiko hostaia mozten ari den jirafa bezala, kongregazioko prefektu serio, kezkatua, italierako irakasle potzolo buru-borobila bere pikaro-begiekin.