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"Yet," I reflected, "she has been young once.
"不過，"我思忖道，"她曾有過青春年華。
Her youth would be contemporary with her master's.
那時主人也跟她一樣年輕。
Mrs. Fairfax told me once, she had lived here many years.
費爾法克斯太太曾告訴我，她在這里已住了很多年。
I don't think she can ever have been pretty.
我認為她從來就沒有姿色。
But, for aught I know, she may possess originality and strength of character to compensate for the want of personal advantages.
但是也許她性格的力量和獨特之處彌補了外貌上的不足。
Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric. Grace is eccentric at least.
羅切斯特先生喜歡果斷和古怪的人。格雷斯至少很古怪。
What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power,
要是從前一時的荒唐（像他那種剛愎自用、反復無常的個性，完全有可能干出輕率的事來）使他落入了她的掌中，
and she now exercises over his actions a secret influence,
行為上的不檢點釀成了惡果，使他如今對格雷斯所施加給自己的秘密影響，
the result of his own indiscretion, which he cannot shake off, and dare not disregard?
既無法擺脫，又不能漠視，那又有什么奇怪呢？
But, having reached this point of conjecture, Mrs. Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face,
但是，一想到這里，普爾太太寬闊、結實、扁平的身材和丑陋干癟甚至粗糙的面容，
recurred so distinctly to my mind's eye,
便清晰地浮現在我眼前，
that I thought, "No; impossible! My supposition cannot be correct. Yet,"
于是我想："不，不可能！我的猜想不可能是對的。不過，"
Suggested the secret voice which talks to us in our own hearts,
一個在我心里悄悄說話的聲音建議道：
you are not beautiful either, and perhaps Mr. Rochester approves you.
你自己也并不漂亮，而羅切斯特先生卻贊賞你。
At any rate, you have often felt as if he did.
至少你總是覺得好像他是這樣。
And last night — remember his words, remember his look, remember his voice!
而且昨天晚上 — 別忘了他的話，別忘了他的神態，別忘了他的嗓音！
I well remembered all — language, glance, and tone seemed at the moment vividly renewed.
這一切我都記得清清楚楚：那語言，那眼神，那聲調此刻似乎活生生地再現了。
I was now in the schoolroom.
這時我呆在讀書室里。
Adèle was drawing. I bent over her and directed her pencil.
阿黛勒在畫畫，我彎著身子指導她使用畫筆。
