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Sometimes all, as with one consent, suspended their by-play
有時候，所有的人都不約而同地停止了自己的插曲，
to observe and listen to the principal actors, for, after all, Mr. Rochester and
來觀看和傾聽主角們的表演，
because closely connected with him — Miss Ingram were the life and soul of the party.
因為羅切斯特先生和——由于與他密切有關 — 英格拉姆小姐，畢竟是全場人的生命的靈魂。
If he was absent from the room an hour, a perceptible dullness seemed to steal over the spirits of his guests.
要是他離開房間一個小時，一種可以覺察到的沉悶情緒便悄悄地漫上客人們的心頭。
And his re-entrance was sure to give a fresh impulse to the vivacity of conversation.
而他再一次進屋必定會給活躍的談話注入新的激情。
The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.
一天，他有事上米爾科特去了，要很晚才能回來，大家便特別感覺到缺少了他生氣勃勃的感染力。
The afternoon was wet.
那天下午下了雨。
A walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred.
結果原來計劃好的，徒步去看新近扎在海村工地上的吉卜賽人營房的事，也就推遲了。
Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables.
一些男士們去了馬廄。
The younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room.
年青一點的與小姐們一起在臺球房里打臺球。
The dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards.
遺孀英格拉姆和林恩，安靜地玩紙牌解悶。
Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity,
登特太太和埃希頓太太拉布蘭奇，
some efforts of Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Eshton to draw her into conversation,
英格拉姆小姐一起聊天，她愛理不理地拒絕了，
had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano,
自己先是伴著鋼琴哼了一些感傷的曲調，
and then, having fetched a novel from the library,
隨后從圖書室里拿了本小說，
had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa,
傲氣十足卻無精打彩地往沙發上一坐，
and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.
準備用小說的魅力，來消磨幾個鐘頭無人作伴的乏味時光。
The room and the house were silent. Only now and then the merriment of the billiard-players was heard from above.
整個房間和整所房子都寂靜無聲。只有不時傳來樓上玩臺球人的歡叫。
