It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their generosity, all their talent, their transferable dreams of sentimental beauty (for, like all artists, they never seek to realise the value of those dreams, or to enclose them in the four-square frame of everyday life), and their gold, which counts for little, to the fashioning of a fine and precious setting for the rubbed and scratched and ill-polished lives of men.
Geroago sarri iruditu izan zait emakume nagi zeregintsu horien eginkizunaren alderdirik hunkigarrienetako bat horretan datzala, hain juxtu, beren eskuzabaltasuna, beren talentua, edertasun sentimentaleko beren amets eskuragarria-zeren, artistek bezala, eurek ere ez baitute amets hori eskuratzen, ez baitute berori beren existentzia arruntaren esparruetara errenditzen-, eta gutxi kosta zaien urre hori, gizonezkoen bizitza lakar baldarra bitxi-txerto ederrez hornitzeari eskaintzean.