It was a corner of abandoned wildness, the grassy and fibrous entry of a gulf, embarrassed with old wood, planted with hawthorns and sloe-trees, which were peopled in the spring by warblers in their nests.
C'était un coin de sauvage abandon, l'entrée herbue et chevelue d'un gouffre, embarrassée de vieux bois, plantée de prunelliers et d'aubépines, que les fauvettes peuplaient de leurs nids, au printemps.