She looked down with disdain on the calm, uninterrupted activity of the sweet girl, which everyone had observed and admired, and when something was said of the care which Ottilie took of the garden and of the hothouses, she not only spoke scornfully of it, in affecting to be surprised, if it were so, at there being neither flowers nor fruit to be seen, not caring to consider that they were living in the depth of winter, but every faintest scrap of green, every leaf, every bud which showed, she chose to have picked every day and squandered on ornamenting the rooms and tables, and Ottilie and the gardener were not a little distressed to see their hopes for the next year, and perhaps for a longer time, destroyed in this wanton recklessness.
Destainaz begiratzen zion neskatilaren jarduera lasai etengabeari, denek hautematen eta goratzen zutenari, eta Ottiliak lorategi eta negutegiez hartzen zituen arduren gaia irteten zenean, ez zen bakarrik hartaz trufatzen, neguaren minenean zeudelakoaz ohartzeke, eta han lore eta fruiturik ez ikusteaz harrituko balitz bezala, baizik eta berde guztiaren eta abartxo guztiak eta ernamuinetan zegoen guztiaren bila bidaltzen zuen jendea gela eta mahaiaren eguneroko apainketarako, halako moldez, ezen Ottilia eta lorezaina oso mintzen ziren hurrengo urterako eta agian gehiagorako beren itxaropenak suntsiturik ikustean.