I knelt within half a yard of her. She stirred the fire, so that a ripple of light broke from the disturbed coal: the glare, however, as she sat, only threw her face into deeper shadow: mine, it illumined.
M'inginocchiai a poca distanza dal fuoco; ella attizzò il fuoco e il carbone mandò un vivo chiarore. Ella era però nell'ombra; io sola mi trovavo in piena luce.