and we were obliged to assume that there was latent in her some past existence in the ancient history of France, noble and little understood, just as there is in those manufacturing towns where old mansions still testify to their former courtly days, and chemical workers toil among delicately sculptured scenes of the Miracle of Theophilus or the Quatre Fils Aymon.
eta derrigorrez pentsatu beharra zegoen, beraz, mirabe harengan ezin barnago errotua zetzala halako iraganaldi frantses oso antigoaleko bat, noblea eta gaingiroki bakarrik ezagutua, manufaktura-industriadun hiri horietan gertatzen den bezala, non bertako hotel zaharrek testigantza ematen baitute hango aspaldiko gorte-bizitzaren berri, eta non produktu kimikoetako lantegi bateko langileek San Teofiloren miraria edo Aymonen lau semeak irudikatzen dituzten eskultura fin askoak inguruan dituztela lan egiten baitute.