My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks--they are almost like poor people's children! and,' said she, 'they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before.'"
Mi hija segunda, Augusta, estuvo visitando la escuela con su madre, y al regreso exclamó: «¡Qué pacíficas son las niñas de Lowood, papá! Con el cabello peinado sobre las orejas, sus largos delantales y sus bolsillos en ellos, casi parecen niñas pobres.