Eulalie was a limping, energetic, deaf spinster who had 'retired' after the death of Mme. de la Bretonnerie, with whom she had been in service from her childhood, and had then taken a room beside the church, from which she would incessantly emerge, either to attend some service, or, when there was no service, to say a prayer by herself or to give Théodore a hand;
Eulalie neska herren bat zen, gogotsu eta gorra, Bretonnerieko andrea zendu ondoren, harenean aritua baitzen lanean haurra zenez geroztik, "erretiroa" hartu eta eliza ondoan gela bat alokatua zuena, handik jaisten zelarik beti, dela ofizioetara, dela, ofizioetatik at, otoizñoren bat egitera edo Théodoreri apur bat laguntzera;