According to her own account, “it had a forbidding look, for it was very dirty, and its leaves were nearly all stuck together through their having remained unturned ” for centuries.
تروي قائلة :‏ « بدت منفِّرة اذ علتها الاوساخ وتلاصقت كل صفحاتها تقريبا لأنها لم تُقلَب » منذ قرون خلت .‏