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.
Dalle camere e dai corridoi uscivano esalazioni simili a quelle degli ospedali, e gli sforzi erano vani per combattere l'epidemia. Maggio gaio brillava senza nubi sul bel paese coperto di boschi.