When I went in, I saw her in the back-kitchen which opened on to the courtyard, in process of killing a chicken; by its desperate and quite natural resistance, which Françoise, beside herself with rage as she attempted to slit its throat beneath the ear, accompanied with shrill cries of "Filthy creature! Filthy creature!" it made the saintly kindness and unction of our servant rather less prominent than it would do, next day at dinner, when it made its appearance in a skin gold-embroidered like a chasuble, and its precious juice was poured out drop by drop as from a pyx.
Ni behera iritsi nintzenean, bera, oilategi ingurura ematen zuèn sukalde atzeko partean, oilasko bat hiltzen ari zen, oilasko bat, bere jazargo etsituan eta borroka guztiz zilegian inarrosten ari zena, Françoise bere onetik at lepoa belarripean zulatu nahian ari baitzitzaion heriosuhar, "piztia zikina!, piztia zikina halakoa!" oihuak lagun, oilasko bat, izan ere, gure zerbitzariaren amultsutasun eta eraspen santua inondik ere distirarazten ez zuena, biharamuneko afaritarakoan, bere azala kasula baten gisa urrez brodaturik eta bere zuku lerdena ziborio batetik bezala tantaka zeriola, mahaigaineratuko zitzaigunean ez bezala.