For a few moments, the badger stood at the entrance to its set, testing the evening air for danger before moving off into the night ​ — for all the world like some lord of the manor going for a stroll around his ancestral estate.
Uz mirkli āpsis sastinga pie alas, bažīgi ošņādams gaisu, un tad aizčāpoja tumsā — gluži kā cienīgs muižkungs, kas nesteidzīgi dodas apstaigāt no senčiem mantoto īpašumu.