We, on the other hand, didn't have to practice such moderation: we could suck the atoms from the air by the lungful, and it was the breeze, the breeze itself, that poured into us this luxurious intoxication!
Nada nos obligaba a nosotros, por el contrario, a moderarnos; podíamos aspirar a pleno pulmón los átomos de la atmósfera, y era la brisa, aquella brisa, la que nos infundía una voluptuosa embriaguez.