On the hill-top above me sat the rising moon; pale yet as a cloud, but brightening momentarily, she looked over Hay, which, half lost in trees, sent up a blue smoke from its few chimneys: it was yet a mile distant, but in the absolute hush I could hear plainly its thin murmurs of life.
Sobre lo alto de la colina comenzaba a levantarse la luna, pálida aún como una ligera nube. De las chimeneas de Hay, medio oculto entre los árboles a una milla de distancia, salía un humo azul.