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The coach drew up; there it was at the gates with its four horses and its top laden with passengers.
馬車停了下來，就在大門口，由四匹馬拖著，車頂上坐滿了乘客。
The guard and coachman loudly urged haste.
車夫和護車的大聲催促我快些上車。
My trunk was hoisted up.
我的箱子給遞了上去。
I was taken from Bessie's neck, to which I clung with kisses.
我自己則從貝茜的脖子上被拖下來帶走，因為我正貼著她脖子親吻呢。
“Be sure and take good care of her,” cried she to the guard, as he lifted me into the inside.
“千萬好好照應她呀，”護車人把我提起來放進車里時，貝茜對他說。
“Ay, ay!” was the answer.
“行啊，行啊！”那人回答。
The door was slapped to, a voice exclaimed “All right,” and on we drove.
車門關上了，“好啦，”一聲大叫，我們便上路了。
Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead.
就這樣我告別了貝茜和蓋茨黑德。
Thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions.
一陣風似地被卷往陌生的、當時看來遙遠和神秘的地方。
I remember but little of the journey.
一路行程，我已記得不多。
I only know that the day seemed to me of a preternatural length, and that we appeared to travel over hundreds of miles of road.
只知道那天長得出奇，而且似乎趕了幾百里路。
We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped.
我們經過幾個城鎮，在其中很大的一個停了下來。
The horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine.
車夫卸了馬，讓乘客們下車吃飯。
I was carried into an inn, where the guard wanted me to have some dinner.
我被帶進一家客找，護車人要我吃些中飯。
But, as I had no appetite, he left me in an immense room with a fireplace at each end,
我卻沒有胃口，他便扔下我走了，讓我留在—個巨大無比的房間里，房間的兩頭都有一個火爐，
a chandelier pendent from the ceiling, and a little red gallery high up against the wall filled with musical instruments.
天花板上懸掛著一盞枝形吊燈，高高的墻上有一個小小的紅色陳列窗，里面放滿了樂器。
Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me.
我在房間里來回走了很久，心里很不自在，害怕有人會進來把我拐走。
For I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.
我相信確有拐子，他們所干的勾當常常出現在貝茜火爐旁所講的故事中。
At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach,
護車人終于回來了，我再次被塞進馬車，
my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the “stony street” of L.
我的保護人登上座位，吹起了悶聲悶氣的號角，車子一陣丁當，駛過了Ｌ鎮的“石子街”。
The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty.
下午，天氣潮濕，霧氣迷蒙。
As it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead.
白晝溶入黃昏時，我開始感到離開蓋茨黑德真的很遠了。
We ceased to pass through towns.
我們再也沒有路過城鎮。
The country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon.
鄉村的景色也起了變化，一座座灰色的大山聳立在地平線上。
As twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood,
暮色漸濃，車子駛進一個山谷，
and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.
那里長著黑乎乎一片森林。夜幕遮蓋了一切景物之后很久，我聽見狂風在林中呼嘯。
Lulled by the sound, I at last dropped asleep.
那聲音仿佛像催眠曲，我終于倒頭睡著了。
I had not long slumbered when the sudden cessation of motion awoke me.
沒過多久，車子突然停了下來，我被驚醒了。
The coach-door was open, and a person like a servant was standing at it.
馬車的門開著，一個仆人模樣的人站在門邊。
I saw her face and dress by the light of the lamps.
藉著燈光，我看得清她的面容和衣裝。
