"In that field, Adele, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since--the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows; and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago, and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf, when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me.
Aznap volt, amikor te is segítettél kaszálni a gyümölcsösben. Mikor elfáradtam, leültem egy mérföldkőre, noteszt és ceruzát vettem elő, és följegyeztem valami szerencsétlenséget, amely réges-rég esett meg velem.