Not that Madame Puta was bad looking, not at all, she could even, like so many others, have been rather pretty, but she was so careful, so distrustful that she stopped short of beauty just as she stopped short of life-her hair was a little too well dressed, her smile a little too facile and sudden, and her gestures a bit too abrupt or too furtive.
Eta ez zen ez itsusia madame Puta, ez zen hori kontua, aski polita ere izan zitekeen, beste asko bezala, baina hain zen zuhurra, ordea, hain fidakaitza, ezen bera ere ederraren mugan gelditzen zen, bizitzaren mugan bezala, ileak soberaxko orrazturik, irrifarrea soberaxko errez, eta supituan ere jestoa axkarregi edo diximulozkoegi.