One day after this, as she came into the room where all we poor children were at work, she sat down just over against me, not in her usual place as mistress, but as if she set herself on purpose to observe me and see me work. I was doing something she had set me to; as I remember, it was marking some shirts which she had taken to make, and after a while she began to talk to me.
Là-dessus, un jour, comme elle entrait dans la chambre où tous les pauvres enfants étaient au travail, elle s'assit juste en face de moi; non pas à sa place habituelle de maîtresse mais comme si elle se disposait à dessein pour m'observer et me regarder travailler; j'étais en train de faire un ouvrage auquel elle m'avait mise, et je me souviens que c'était à marquer des chemises; et après un temps elle commença de me parler: