One afternoon i had then been three weeks at lowood , as i was sitting with a slate in my hand , puzzling over a sum in long division , my eyes , raised in abstraction to the window , caught sight of a figure just passing : i recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline ; and when , two minutes after , all the school , teachers included , rose en masse , it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted 一天下午那时我到罗沃德已经三星期了，我手里拿了块写字板坐着，正为长除法中的一个总数发窘，眼睛呆呆地望着窗外，看到有一个人影闪过。我几乎本能地认出了这瘦瘦的轮廓。因此两分钟后，整个学校的人，包括教师在内都全体起立时，我没有必要抬起头来后过究竟，便知道他们在迎接谁进屋了。
