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Adèle here ran before him with her shuttlecock.
這時阿黛勒拿著板羽球跑到了他跟前。
"Away!" he cried harshly, "keep at a distance, child, or go in to Sophie!"
"走開！"他厲聲喝道，"離得遠一點，孩子，要不，到里面索菲婭那兒去。"
Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence,
隨后他繼續默默地走路，
I ventured to recall him to the point whence he had abruptly diverged.
我冒昧地提醒他剛才突然岔開去的話題。
"Did you leave the balcony, sir," I asked, "when Mdlle. Varens entered?"
"瓦倫小姐進屋的時候你離開了陽臺嗎，先生？"我問。
I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question,
我幾乎預料他會拒絕回答這個不合時宜的問題，
but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction,
可是恰恰相反，
he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.
他從一臉愁容、茫然若失之中醒悟過來，把目光轉向我，眉宇間的陰云也似乎消散了。
Oh, I had forgotten Celine!
哦，我已經把塞莉納給忘了！
Well, to resume. When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier,
好吧，我接著講。當我看見那個把我弄得神瑰顛倒的女人，由一個好獻殷勤的男人陪著進來時，
I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony,
我似乎聽到了一陣嘶嘶聲，綠色的妒嫉之蛇，從月光照耀下的陽臺上呼地竄了出來，盤成了高低起伏的圈圈，
glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.
鉆進了我的背心，兩分鐘后一直咬嚙到了我的內心深處。
Strange! he exclaimed, suddenly starting again from the point.
真奇怪！他驚叫了一聲，突然又離開了話題。
Strange that I should choose you for the confidant of all this, young lady.
真奇怪我竟會選中你來聽這番知心話，年輕小姐。
Passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world
更奇怪的是你居然靜靜地聽著，仿佛這是人世間再正常不過的事情，
for a man like me to tell stories of his opera-mistresses to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you!
由一個像我這樣的男人，把自己當歌女的情人的故事，講給一個像你這樣古怪而不諳世事的姑娘聽。
But the last singularity explains the first, as I intimated once before.
不過正像我曾說過的那樣，后一個特點說明了前者。
You, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets.
你穩重、體貼、細心，生來就是聽別人吐露隱秘的。
Besides, I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own.
此外，我知道我選擇的是怎樣的一類頭腦，來與自己的頭腦溝通。
I know it is one not liable to take infection; it is a peculiar mind; it is a unique one.
我知道這是一個不易受感染的頭腦，與眾不同，獨一無二。
Happily I do not mean to harm it.
幸而我并不想敗壞它。
But, if I did, it would not take harm from me.
就是我想這么做，它也不會受影響。
