I imagined myself only to be regretting my loss, and thinking how to repair it; but when my reflections were concluded, and I looked up and found that the afternoon was gone, and evening far advanced, another discovery dawned on me, namely, that in the interval I had undergone a transforming process; that my mind had put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple--or rather that she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity--and that now I was left in my natural element, and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.
Ma quando fu trascorso il giorno e una parte della sera, mi accorsi che era avvenuta in me una trasformazione. Il mio spirito si era spogliato di tutto ciò che aveva preso in prestito alla signorina Temple, o piuttosto lei aveva portato seco quell'ambiente, che mi circondava quando mi era vicina.