and thrusting down with its crypt into the blackness of a Merovingian night, through which, guiding us with groping finger-tips beneath the shadowy vault, ribbed strongly as an immense bat's wing of stone, Théodore or his sister would light up for us with a candle the tomb of Sigebert's little daughter, in which a deep hole, like the bed of a fossil, had been bored, or so it was said, "by a crystal lamp which, on the night when the Frankish princess was murdered, had left, of its own accord, the golden chains by which it was suspended where the apse is to-day and with neither the crystal broken nor the light extinguished had buried itself in the stone, through which it had gently forced its way."
eta bere kriptarekin merovingiar gau batean murgilduz, zeinean, ganga ilun eta harrizko saguzar erraldoi batena bezain mintz zaintsudun haren azpian haztamuka gidatzen gintuztelarik, Théodorek eta haren arrebak kandela batez argitzen baitziguten Sigebertoren alaba txikiaren hilobia, bere gainazalean kusku sakon bat ageri zuena-fosil baten arrastoaren antzekoa-, han mailatua, nonbait, ziotenez, "kristalezko lanpara bat, printzesa frankoaren erailketaren arratsean bertan, berez askatu zelako, oraingo absidea dagoen tokian, dilindan atxikitzen zutèn urrezko kateetatik, eta kristala zirtzilatu gabe, sugarra iraungi gabe, harriaren barnera sartu zen lanpara, harria bera beratuz eta bigunki amore emanaraziz". Combrayko elizaren absidea: