As she was entirely uneducated, and was afraid of making mistakes in grammar and pronunciation, she used purposely to speak in an indistinct and garbling manner, thinking that if she should make a slip it would be so buried in the surrounding confusion that no one could be certain whether she had actually made it or not;
Ez baitzen batere ikasia eta frantses-akatsak egiteko beldur zenez, ahoskera nahasia ohi zerabilen berariaz, pentsatuz ezen, ele-mele okerren bat esanez gero, berau halako lauso baten pean-edo igaroko zela oharkabean inork zehazki erreparatu gabe, eta, ondorioz, haren solasa bor-bor jardun ilun bat besterik ez zen izaten, zeinetik tarteka azaleratzen baitziren berak ziurtzat zeuzkàn berba bakanak.