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I kept my word.
我說到做到，
An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons.
一二個小時便用蠟筆畫成了自己的肖像。
And in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
而用了近兩周的工夫完成了一幅想象中的布蘭奇·英格拉姆象牙微型畫。
It looked a lovely face enough,
這張臉看上去是夠可愛的，
and when compared with the real head in chalk, the contrast was as great as self-control could desire.
同用蠟筆根據(jù)真人畫成的頭像相比，其對比之強烈已到了自制力所能承受的極限。
I derived benefit from the task.
我很得益于這一做法。
It had kept my head and hands employed,
它使我的腦袋和雙手都不閑著，
and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.
也使我希望在心里烙下的不可磨滅的新印象更強烈，更不可動搖。
Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself
不久我有理由慶幸自己，
on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit.
在迫使我的情感服從有益的紀(jì)律方面有所長進。
Thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm,
多虧了它，我才能夠大大方方、平平靜靜地對付后來發(fā)生的事情，
which, had they found me unprepared,
要是我毫無準(zhǔn)備，
I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally.
那恐怕是連表面的鎮(zhèn)靜都是無法保持的。
