I was still looking at them, and also at intervals examining the teachers--none of whom precisely pleased me; for the stout one was a little coarse, the dark one not a little fierce, the foreigner harsh and grotesque, and Miss Miller, poor thing! looked purple, weather-beaten, and over-worked--when, as my eye wandered from face to face, the whole school rose simultaneously, as if moved by a common spring.
En cuanto a la pobre señorita Miller, ¡era tan rubicunda, estaba tan curtida por el sol, parecía tan agobiada de trabajo! Mientras mis ojos erraban de unas a otras, todas las clases, como impulsadas por un resorte, se pusieron en pie simultáneamente.