Die Natur schien zu schlafen. Das Spalier war mit Stroh umwickelt, und die Weinstöcke hingen an der Mauer wie vereiste Schlangen.
No birds were to be heard; everything seemed asleep, the espalier covered with straw, and the vine, like a great sick serpent under the coping of the wall, along which, on drawing hear, one saw the many-footed woodlice crawling.