She came to them with the tone that they required, with the cordial accent which existed before they were, which dictated them, but which is not to be found in the words themselves, and by these means she smoothed away, as she read on, any harshness there might be or discordance in the tenses of verbs, endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love;
Zor zitzaièn tonuan erasateko, berak berraurkitu egiten zuen haien aurretikoa zèn eta haiek sortaraziak zituèn baina hitzek ostendu ohi duten bihotzetiko mintzaira;