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Ser Rodrik came for her just as the bell ceased its clangor. We had best make haste if we hope to eat tonight, my lady.
鐘聲停止，羅德利克爵士過來敲她房門。夫人，我們快下去罷，不然恐怕吃不到東西了。
It might be safer if we were not knight and lady until we pass the Neck, she told him. Common travelers attract less notice. A father and daughter taken to the road on some family business, say.
過頸澤之前，我們不以爵士、夫人相稱會比較安全，她告訴他，扮成尋常旅人不會引人注意。嗯，就說我們是父女出門探親好了。
As you say, my lady, Ser Rodrik agreed. It was only when she laughed that he realized what he'd done. The old courtesies die hard, my, my daughter. He tried to tug on his missing whiskers, and sighed with exasperation.
那就這樣辦，夫人。羅德利克爵士剛表同意，凱特琳便笑了起來，他才恍然大悟自己又說錯了話。習慣了，一時真改不過來，夫…女兒。他伸手想捻他早已不見的胡子，不由得困窘地嘆氣。
Catelyn took his arm. Come, Father, she said. You'll find that Masha Heddle sets a good table, I think, but try not to praise her. You truly don't want to see her smile.
凱特琳挽起他的手。來罷，老爹，她說，瑪莎·海德燒得一手好菜，我想你會喜歡的。不過千萬別當面夸她，她那張笑臉還是不看為妙。
The common room was long and drafty, with a row of huge wooden kegs at one end and a fireplace at the other. A serving boy ran back and forth with skewers of meat while Masha drew beer from the kegs, chewing her sourleaf all the while.
大廳很長，通風良好，一邊立著一排大木酒桶，另一邊則是火爐。跑堂小弟拿著烤肉叉子跑來跑去，瑪莎從酒桶里倒出啤酒，嘴里嚼的煙草卻也沒停。
The benches were crowded, townsfolk and farmers mingling freely with all manner of travelers. The crossroads made for odd companions; dyers with black and purple hands shared a bench with rivermen reeking of fish, an ironsmith thick with muscle squeezed in beside a wizened old septon, hard-bitten sellswords and soft plump merchants swapped news like boon companions.
長椅上座無虛席，村民和農夫與來歷各異的旅客并肩而坐。一手黑一手紫的染坊師傅和滿身魚腥的討河人坐在一起；渾身肌肉的鐵匠縮著身子擠在瘦小的老修士旁邊；一副硬漢模樣的流浪武士和輕聲細語的生意人像老友般交換著路上的消息。
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