Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion's designation.
A pázsitos térséget besüppedt kerítés választotta el egy nagy réttől. A réten vastag törzsű, göcsörtös, vén, tüskés fák sorakoztak; egyszerre világosság gyúlt az agyamban: innen kapta Thornfield a nevét.