On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.
Le premier regard d’Elizabeth fut pour scruter anxieusement le visage de sa sour et elle fut heureuse de constater qu’elle avait bonne mine et qu’elle était aussi fraîche et jolie qu’a l’ordinaire.