If, in a florist's or a jeweller's window, a plant or an ornament caught his eye, he would at once think of sending them to Odette, imagining that the pleasure which the casual sight of them had given him would instinctively be felt, also, by her, and would increase her affection for himself; and he would order them to be taken at once to the Rue La pérouse, so as to accelerate the moment in which, as she received an offering from him, he might feel himself, in a sense, transported into her presence.
Baldin, lore-edo bitxi-denda baten aurrean, zuhamuxka edo pitxiren baten ikuskizuna laketgarri bazitzaion, zer haiek Odetteri bidaltzea izan ohi zuen berehalako bulkada, berari kitzikatua ziotèn plazera Odetterengan birsentitua irudikatuz-baita, ondorioz, Odettek berarengana zuèn samurtasuna emendatua ere-, eta, beraz, lehenbailehen rue La Pérouse-ra eraman zitzatela agindu ohi zuen ziplo, Odettek berarengandik zerbait jasotzerakoan bera nolabait haren ondoan sentituko zèn unea ez berantestearren.