The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still.
Le tende erano ancora chiuse nelle camere della servitù, gli uccellini incominciavano a saltellare sugli alberi in fiore. Di tanto in tanto i cavalli battevano i piedi nella scuderia; tutto il resto era silenzioso.