She pretended that the latter concealed her real age, that she laced her stays so tightly that she nearly suffocated herself, and that if she came down of a morning looking so trim and neat, without a single hair out of place, it must be because she looked perfectly hideous when in dishabille.
baldin goizean dendara gerri estu, dirdiratsu, ile bakar bat ere besteak baino kanporago ez zuela jaisten bazen, apaindu aurretik ikara emateko moduan zegoelako izan behar zuen. Orduan, besoak altxatzen zituen pixka bat, berak, etxe barruan, kortserik janzten ez zuela erakusteko;