Though without any natural gift for music, she had received, some fifteen years earlier, the instruction which a music-mistress of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, a woman of genius who had been, towards the end of her life, reduced to penury, had started, at seventy, to give to the daughters and granddaughters of her old pupils.
Musikarako berezko dohainik ez bazuen ere, hamabost urte lehenago piano-eskolak hartuak zituen, Saint-Germain auzoko irakasle bikain batengandik, zeina, bere bizitzaren azken aldera, miseria gorriraino galkatua, hirurogeita hamar urteko adinean, berriro hasia baitzen bere ikasle ohien alabei eta bilobei lezioak ematen.