The fires seemed to burn with unusual cheeriness, and every time the girls met, their pale faces broke into smiles as they hugged one another, whispering encouragingly, " Mother's coming, dear! Mother's coming! "

姑娘们每次碰面，相互紧紧拥抱，苍白的脸上现出了微笑，轻声鼓励道，“母亲就要回来了，亲爱的！母亲就要回来了！”

It betokened the cheeriness of an active temperament, finding joy in its activity, and, therefore, rendering it beautiful; it was a New England trait, —the stern old stuff of Puritanism with a gold thread in the web.

它预示着一种活跃气质的快乐，在它的活动中找到快乐，因此使它变得美丽；这是新英格兰的特征——带有金线的严厉的清教主义。