For three months from that day Mme. Veuve Vauquer availed herself of the services of M. Goriot's coiffeur, and went to some expense over her toilette, expense justifiable on the ground that she owed it to herself and her establishment to pay some attention to appearances when such highly-respectable persons honored her house with their presence.
Egun harez geroz, hirur hilabetez nonbait han, Vauquer alarguntsa Goriot jaunaren ileapaintzaileaz baliatu zen, eta apaindura-gastu batzuk ere egin zituen, etxeari halako ohorea eman beharraren estakuruetan han ibiltzen ziren jende ohoragarriei zegokien eran.