Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most keenly have regretted the separation; that wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace! as it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.
De haber sido una niña que llegase allí procedente de un hogar feliz, probablemente aquella hora del día hubiera sido lo que me habría producido mayor sensación de soledad y la que más hubiera entristecido mi corazón. Pero dada mi situación peculiar, no me sucedía así.