Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.
Après avoir étendu la courte-pointe et plié mes vêtements de nuit, j'allai à la fenêtre; quelques livres d'images et quelques jeux y avaient été oubliés. Je voulus les ranger, mais Georgiana m'ordonna durement de laisser ses affaires en repos.