This poor creature to whom her mother had never said, "You are my child," except to bid her nourish her old age as she herself had nourished her youth, was called Louise, and, being obedient to her mother, she abandoned herself without volition, without passion, without pleasure, as she would have worked at any other profession that might have been taught her.
Cette pauvre enfant à qui sa mère n'avait jamais dit: Tu es ma fille, que pour lui ordonner de nourrir sa vieillesse comme elle-même avait nourrir son enfance, cette pauvre créature se nommaint Louise, et, obéissant à sa mère, elle se livrait sans volonté, sans passion, sans plaisir, comme elle eût fait un métier si l'on eût songé à lui en apprendre un.