A thousand trifling little details-the charming prodigality of the chemist-details which would have been eliminated from an artificial preparation, gave me, like a book in which one is astonished to read the name of a person whom one knows, the pleasure of finding that these were indeed real lime-blossoms, like those I had seen, when coming from the train, in the Avenue de la Gare, altered, but only because they were not imitations but the very same blossoms, which had grown old.
Mila xehetasun ttipi alferrikakok-botikariaren oparotasun xarmagarria-, botika-enkargu berariazko batean alde batera utziko ziratekeenek, ematen zidaten neuri, ordea, liburu batean pertsona ezagun baten izenarekin topo egitean gertatzen den bezala, haiek benetako ezkietako zurtoinak zirela jabetzearen plazera, avenue de la Gare-n ikusten nituenak bezalakoxeak, aldatuak, baina hain zuzen ere kopia huts ez zirelako, jatorrizkoak baizik, eurak berak, berez zaharkituak.