Els minyons no podien recordar que llurs observacions haguessin estat de pes, abans; pero ara les dites llurs eren atresorades i repetides: tot el que feien, ça com lla, semblava ésser considerat com a notable: havien perdut, evidentment, el poder de fer i dir coses vulgars. A més, llur passada historia va ser furgada, i hom descobrí que hi havia marques d'originalitat ben paleses.
The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had possessed weight before; but now their sayings were treasured and repeated; everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded as remarkable; they had evidently lost the power of doing and saying commonplace things; moreover, their past history was raked up and discovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality.