After she had well scolded her servant she gave her presents or sent her out to see neighbours, just as she sometimes threw beggars all the silver in her purse, although she was by no means tender-hearted or easily accessible to the feelings of others, like most country-bred people, who always retain in their souls something of the horny hardness of the paternal hands.
Bere neskamea ederki astindu ondoren, gero opariak egiten zizkion edota auzokoen etxera bidaltzen zuen denborapasa, halaber batzuetan eskaleei ematen zizkien bere poltsako txanpon zuri guztiak, nahiz eta ez izan inola ere bihozbera horratio, ezta ere besteren antsiak erraz hunkitzekoa, laborarien artetik irtendako jenderik gehiena bezala, beti gordetzen baitute ariman gurasoen eskuetako maskurduratarik zertxobait.