Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa, and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.
Blanche Ingram, tras repeler con orgullosa taciturnidad algunos intentos de las Eshton y Dent para entablar conversación, había tocado primero algunas romanzas sentimentales en el piano, y luego tomando una novela de la biblioteca, se había hundido en un sofá y se disponía a matar con la lectura las tediosas horas de ausencia.