How we longed for the light and heat of a blazing fire when we got back! But, to the little ones at least, this was denied: each hearth in the schoolroom was immediately surrounded by a double row of great girls, and behind them the younger children crouched in groups, wrapping their starved arms in their pinafores.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 7. The girls of Lowood are made walk two miles to church in the cold weather every Sunday. On their return there is a scramble to get near the fire but the younger ones get left out in the cold.