the smallest detail of either of them appeared to me as a precious thing, which exhibited the special excellence of the whole, while, immediately beside them, in the first stages of our walk, before we had reached the sacred soil of one or the other, the purely material roads, at definite points on which they were set down as the ideal view over a plain and the ideal scenery of a river, were no more worth the trouble of looking at them than, to a keen playgoer and lover of dramatic art, are the little streets which may happen to run past the walls of a theatre.
bai bateko bai besteko lursailik xumeena ere ezinago baliotsua iruditzen zitzaidan eta bakoitzaren bikaintasun osoaren agergarri; aitzitik, haien aldean, bataren nahiz bestearen lur sakratura iritsi aurretik ibili behar zirèn bide material hutsek, lautadaren ikuspegi ideala eta uhaitz-paisaiaren ideala kokatuak zeudèn toki banatara zeramatenek, ez zuten begirada bat bera ere merezi, hala nola arretarik merezi ez duten, arte dramatikoaren zale porrokatu batentzat, antzokiaren inguruko karrika kaxkarrek.