Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line--that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen--that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.
Más allá de la línea del horizonte existía, según imaginaba, un mundo activo, ciudades, regiones llenas de vida que conocía por referencia, pero que no había visto jamás. Y sentía en mi interior el afán de ver todo aquello de cerca, de tratar más gentes, de experimentar el encanto de otras personas.