One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose _en masse_, it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted.
Egy délután (akkor három hete lehettem Lowoodban) palatáblával a kezemben ültem a helyemen, és valami bonyolult osztási műveleten törtem a fejem. Közben szórakozottan kinéztem az ablakon, és egy férfit láttam a kerten keresztül jönni.