while Marguerite, a sinner like Manon, and perhaps converted like her, had died in a sumptuous bed (it seemed, after what I had seen, the bed of her past), but in that desert of the heart, a more barren, a vaster, a more pitiless desert than that in which Manon had found her last resting-place.
Margarita ordea, Manon bezalaxe bekatari izana eta agian bera bezala onbideratu egin zena, nik ikusitakoa sinesten bada luxu ikusgarriz inguraturik hil zen; bere iraganeko ohean, baina aldi berean Manon ehortzi zutenekoa baino idorrago, latzago eta ankerrago den bihotzeko basamortuan.