While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
On s'efforçait en vain de combattre la contagion par des remèdes. Cependant le joyeux mois de mai brillait sans nuages au-dessus de ces montagnes à l'aspect pittoresque et de ce beau pays tout couvert de bois.