'Come along, Steve!' Levin shouted, feeling his heart beat more rapidly, and suddenly, as if some bar had been withdrawn from his strained sense of hearing, he lost the faculty of measuring distance, and was struck by sounds which reached him clearly but without any order.
–¡Ven Stiva! –llamó Levin, sintiendo que su corazón latía con más fuerza. Dijérase que en su oído se había descorrido un cerrojo y que todos los sonidos comenzaban a impresionarlo desmesuradamente y en desorden, pero de un modo preciso.