and gothic art seemed to me a more living thing now that, detaching it from the towns in which, until then, I had always imagined it, I could see how, in a particular instance, upon a reef of savage rocks, it had taken root and grown until it flowered in a tapering spire.
eta gotikoa, orain, ordura arte beti imajinatua nuèn hirietatik aparte, biziagoa iruditzen zitzaidan, zeren ikus bainezakeen, kasu partikular batean, nola ernamuindu eta loratua zen, haitz basatien gainean, kanpandorre segail batean mamitua.