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I was knocked down, was the blunt explanation, jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride.
"我是被人給打倒的，"我脫口而出。由于自尊心再次受到傷害，引起了一陣痛楚，我冒昧地作了這樣的辯解。
"But that did not make me ill," I added, while Mr. Lloyd helped himself to a pinch of snuff.
"但光那樣也不會生病。"我趁勞埃德先生取了一撮鼻煙吸起來時說。
As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner.
他把煙盒放入背心口袋。這時，鈴聲大作，叫傭人們去吃飯。
He knew what it was.
他明白是怎么回事。
"That 's for you, nurse," said he.
"那是叫你的，保姆，"他說。
"You can go down; I'll give Miss Jane a lecture till you come back."
"你可以下去啦，我來開導開導簡小姐，等著你回來。"
Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality at meals was rigidly enforced at Gateshead Hall.
貝茜本想留著，但又不得不走，準時吃飯是蓋茨黑德府的一條成規。
"The fall did not make you ill; what did, then?" pursued Mr. Lloyd when Bessie was gone.
"你不是以為跌了跤才生病吧？那么因為什么呢？"貝茜一走，勞埃德先生便追問道。
"I was shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark."
"他們把我關在一間鬧鬼的房子里，直到天黑。"
I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time.
我看到勞埃德先生微微一笑，同時又皺起眉頭來，
"Ghost! What, you are a baby after all! You are afraid of ghosts?"
"鬼？瞧，你畢竟還是個娃娃！你怕鬼嗎？"
"Of Mr. Reed's ghost I am. He died in that room, and was laid out there.
里德先生的鬼魂我是怕的，他就死在那同房子里，還在那里停過欞。
Neither Bessie nor any one else will go into it at night, if they can help it.
還是別人，能不進去，是不在夜里進那房間的。
And it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle, so cruel that I think I shall never forget it."
多狠心呀，把我一個人關在里面，連支蠟燭也不點。心腸那么狠，我一輩子都忘不了。"
"Nonsense! And is it that makes you so miserable? Are you afraid now in daylight?"
"瞎說！就因為這個使你心里難受，現在大白天你還怕嗎？"
"No. But night will come again before long, and besides, I am unhappy, very unhappy, for other things."
"現在不怕，不過馬上又要到夜里了。另外，我不愉快，很不愉快，為的是其他事情。"
"What other things? Can you tell me some of them?"
"其他什么事？能說些給我聽聽嗎？"
