But when my father had seemed almost to regard her as insane on learning the names of the books she proposed to give me, she had journeyed back by herself to Jouy-le-Vicomte to the bookseller's, so that there should be no fear of my not having my present in time (it was a burning hot day, and she had come home so unwell that the doctor had warned my mother not to allow her again to tire herself in that way), and had there fallen back upon the four pastoral novels of George Sand.
Baina, aitak ia erotzat hartu baitzuen oparitu nahi zizkidàn liburuen berri jakin zuenean, amona Jouy-le-Vicomteko liburuzainarenera itzuli, bezuzarik gabe gelditzeko arriskurik izan ez nezan (egun lamadatsua izaki, amona hain balditurik etxeratu zen non sendagileak erregutu egin baitzion amari, arren, berriro horrela neka zedin ez ametitzeko), eta azkenean George Sanden lau landa-eleberrien alde deliberatua zen.