2012

Instituto Tecnolgico de la Laguna Jos Antonio Snchez Limn

[ARTICULO EN INGLES.]

Ingeniera en gestin Empresarial.

Jos Antonio Snchez Limn

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, "She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner -something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were-- she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children." "What does Bessie say I have done?" I asked. "Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent." A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement. Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast. I returned to my book--Bewick's History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of seafowl; of "the solitary rocks and promontories" by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape -

Ingeniera en gestin Empresarial.

Jos Antonio Snchez Limn

Traduccin:
Aquel da no fue posible salir a paseo. Por la maana jugamos durante una hora entre los matorrales, pero, despus de comer (la seora Reed coma temprano cuando no habla gente de fuera), el fro viento invernal trajo consigo unas nubes tan sombras y una lluvia tan recia, que toda posibilidad de salir se disip. Yo me alegr. No me gustaban los paseos largos, sobre todo en aquellas tardes invernales. Regresbamos de ellos al anochecer, y yo volva siempre con los dedos agarrotados, con el corazn entristecido por los regaos de Bessie, la niera,. y humillada por la conciencia de mi inferioridad fsica respecto a Elisa, luan y Georgina Reed. Los tres, Georgina, Elisa y Juan, se agruparon en el saln en torno a su madre, reclinada en el sof, al lado del fuego. Rodeada de sus hijos (que en aquel instante no disputaban ni alborotaban), mi ta pareca sentirse perfectamente feliz. A m me dispens de la obligacin de unirme al grupo, diciendo que se vela en la necesidad de mantenerme a distancia, hasta que Bessie le dijera, y ella lo comprobara, que yo me esforzaba en adquirir mejores modales, en ser una nia ms obediente. Mientras yo no fuese ms sociable, ms despejada, menos huraa y ms agradable en todos sentidos, la seora Reetl se crea obligada a excluirme d los privilegios reservados a los nios obedientes y buenos. Y qu ha dicho Bessie de m? -interrogu al or aquellas palabras. -No me gustan las nias preguntonas, Jane. Una nia no debe hablar a los mayores de esa manera. Sintate en cualquier parte, y mientras no se te ocurran mejores cosas que decir, estte callada. Me deslic en el comedorcito de desayunar anexo al saln y en el cual habla una estantera con libros., Cog uno que tena bonitas estampas Me encaram al alfizar de la ventana, me sent en l cruzando las piernas como un turco y despus de correr las rojas cortinas que protegan el hueco, qued aislada por competo en aquel retiro. Las cortinas escarlata limitaban a mi derecha mi campo visual, pero a la izquierda, los cristales, aunque me defendan de los rigores de la inclemente tarde de noviembre; no me impedan contemplarla. Mientras volva las hojas del libro, me paraba de cuanto en cuando para otear el paisaje Invernal. A lo lejos, todo se fundaa en un horizonte plomizo de nubes y nieblas. De cerca, se divisaban los prados hmedos y los arbustos agitados por el viento, y sobre toda ta perspectiva caa, sin cesar, una lluvia desoladora. Continu hojeando mi libro. Era una obra de Bewick, consagrada en gran parte a las costumbres de los pjaros, y cuyas pginas de texto me interesaban poco, en general. No obstante, habla unas cuantas de introduccin que, a pesar de ser muy nia an, me atraan lo suficiente para no considerarlas ridas del todo. Eran las que trataban de los lugares donde suelen anidar las aves marinas: "las solitarias rocas y promontorios donde no habitan ms que estos seres", es decir, las costas de Noruega, salpicadas de islas, desde su extremidad meridional hasta el Cabo Norte.