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"What!" he exclaimed, "Are you quitting me already, and in that way?"
"什么！"他大叫道，"你已經要離開了，就那么走了？"
You said I might go, sir.
你說我可以走了，先生。
But not without taking leave, not without a word or two of acknowledgment and good-will,
可不能不告而別，不能連一兩句表示感謝和善意的活都沒有，
not, in short, in that brief, dry fashion.
總之不能那么簡簡單單，干干巴巴。
Why, you have saved my life, snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death,
嗨，你救了我的命呀？把我從可怕和痛苦的死亡中拯救出來！
and you walk past me as if we were mutual strangers!
而你就這么從我面前走過，仿佛我們彼此都是陌路人！
At least shake hands.
至少也得握握手吧。
He held out his hand; I gave him mine.
他伸出手來，我也向他伸出手去。
He took it first in one, then in both his own.
他先是用一只手，隨后用雙手把我的手握住。
You have saved my life.
你救了我的命。
I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt.
我很高興，欠了你那么大一筆人情債。
I cannot say more. Nothing else that has being would have been tolerable to me in the character of creditor for such an obligation,
我無法再說別的話了，要是別的債主，我欠了那么大情，我準會難以容忍，
but you, it is different.
可是你卻不同。
I feel your benefits no burden, Jane.
我并不覺得欠你的恩情是一種負擔，簡。
He paused, gazed at me.
他停頓了一下，眼睛盯著我。
Words almost visible trembled on his lips, but his voice was checked.
話幾乎已到了顫動著的嘴邊，但他控制住了自己的嗓音。
Good-night again, sir. There is no debt, benefit, burden, obligation, in the case.
再次祝你晚安，先生，那件事沒有負債，沒有恩情，沒有負擔，也沒有義務。
"I knew," he continued, "you would do me good in some way, at some time.
"我早就知道，"他繼續說："你會在某一時候，以某種方式為我做好事的
I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
我初次見你的時候，就從你眼睛里看到了這一點，
Their expression and smile did not" (again he stopped)
那表情，那笑容不會（他再次打住），
"did not" (he proceeded hastily) "strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
不會（他匆忙地繼續說）無緣無故地在我心底里激起愉悅之情。
