Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.
Norbaiti zerbait praktikoa oparitu behar zionean ere, besaulki bat, demagun, edo mahai-tresna batzuk, edo makuluren bat, "antzinakoak" bilatu ohi zituen berak beti, halakoei aspaldidaniko erabili ezak erabilgarritasuna ezabatua-edo zienez, egokiagoak iruditzen baitzitzaizkion, behialako gizakien bizitzaz jakitea premiazkoagoa izaki, nonbait, gurearen premiei erantzutea baino.