For things which might or might not be done she possessed a code at once imperious, abundant, subtle, and uncompromising on points themselves imperceptible or irrelevant, which gave it a resemblance to those ancient laws which combine such cruel ordinances as the massacre of infants at the breast with prohibitions, of exaggerated refinement, against "seething the kid in his mother's milk," or "eating of the sinew which is upon the hollow of the thigh."
Egin daitezkeen edo egin ez daitezkeen gauzen gainean kode larderiatsua zuen hark, oparoa, urguria eta zorrotza apeta ezin jadetsizko edo alferrikakoei zegokienez (horrexek ematen ziolarik, hain zuzen ere, kode hari antzinako legeen itxura, legeok, hainbat agindu basatiren ondoan, hala nola titi-haurrak kalitu egin behar direla, debekatzen baitute, aldi berean, xamurtasun erabat neurriz gainekoz, bildotsa bere amaren esnetan irakinaraztea edota animalia bati izter aldeko nerbioa jatea).