The kitchen-maid was an abstract personality, a permanent institution to which an invariable set of attributes assured a sort of fixity and continuity and identity throughout the long series of transitory human shapes in which that personality was incarnate;
Sukaldeko neskamea pertsona juridiko bat zen, instituzio iraunkor moduko bat, zenbait ezaugarri aldaezinek halako jarraikortasun eta nortasun berezi bat eratxikitzen ziotena, haragiztatzen zeneko forma iragankorren hurrenkeraren bitartez: