At the same time the clergyman, an old man and clinging to old customs, who at first had not been especially pleased with the alteration, had become thoroughly delighted with it, all the more because when he sat out like Philemon with his Baucis under the old linden trees at his back door, instead of the humps and mounds he had a beautiful clean lawn to look out upon; and which, moreover, Charlotte having secured the use of the spot to the parsonage, was no little convenience to his household.
Apaiza bera ere, edozertarako aholkua eskatzen zioten eta antzinako ohiturei lotua, eta lehenengotan berrikuntza harekin oso pozik ez zegoena, orain pozik zegoen ezki urtetsuen itzalpean, Filemon bere Bauzisekin bezala atsedena hartuz, atze-atearen aurrean, hilobi izugarrien ordez tapiz polit ñabarra ikusten zuen;