The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still.
Las ventanas de los cuartos de la servidumbre estaban cerradas todavía. Algunos pajarillos gorjeaban en los árboles del huerto, cuyas ramas asomaban sobre uno de los muros del patio.