She did not, however, put any very great pressure upon my grandmother's sisters, for they, in their horror of vulgarity, had brought to such a fine art the concealment of a personal allusion in a wealth of ingenious circumlocution, that it would often pass unnoticed even by the person to whom it was addressed.
Tematu beharrik ere ez, ordea, amonaren ahizpak limurtzen; izan ere, haiek, arrunkeriaren muzinez, hain urrunera bultzatzen baitzuten edozein zehar-aipamen pertsonal perifrasirik bihurrienen azpian disimulatzeko artea non maiz gertatzen baitzen halakoaz ez konturatzea ezta zehar-aipamen horren hartzailea behar zukeena bera ere.