Wäre Emmas Kindheit im Hinterstübchen eines Kramladens in einem Geschäftsviertel dahingeflossen, dann wäre das junge Mädchen vermutlich der Naturschwärmerei verfallen, die zumeist in literarischer Anregung ihre Quelle hat.
If her childhood had been spent in the shop-parlour of some business quarter, she might perhaps have opened her heart to those lyrical invasions of Nature, which usually come to us only through translation in books.