It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o'clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of selling the eggs to the housekeeper and hoarding up the money she thus obtained.
Bessie había salido a desayunar. Eliza estaba poniéndose un abrigo y un sombrero para ir a un gallinero de que ella misma cuidaba, ocupación que le agradaba tanto como vender los huevos al mayordomo y acumular el importe de sus transacciones.