One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the cupboard and the table-drawer of my little kitchen, she discovered first two French books, a volume of Schiller, a German grammar and dictionary, and then my drawing-materials and some sketches, including a pencil-head of a pretty little cherub-like girl, one of my scholars, and sundry views from nature, taken in the Vale of Morton and on the surrounding moors.
Una sera che con la sua infantile curiosità frugava nella credenza della cucina, vide prima due libri francesi, poi un volume di Schiller e una grammatica tedesca, quindi gli utensili da disegno e alcuni schizzi di paesaggio e di ritratti delle mie alunne.