If her childhood had been spent in the shop-parlour of some business quarter, she might perhaps have opened her heart to those lyrical invasions of Nature, which usually come to us only through translation in books.
Si son enfance se fût écoulée dans l’arrière-boutique d’un quartier marchand, elle se serait peut-être ouverte alors aux envahissements lyriques de la nature, qui, d’ordinaire, ne nous arrivent que par la traduction des écrivains.