I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies--such was what I knew of existence.
Yo no me comunicaba para nada con el mundo exterior. Reglas escolares, deberes escolares, costumbres escolares, voces, rostros, tipos, preferencias y antipatías dentro de la escuela: tal era lo que yo conocía del mundo.