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And after much pacing to and fro, till, I think, the said Sam's calves must have ached with the exercise,
薩姆多次往返奔波，小腿也想必累疼了。經過一番波折，
permission was at last, with great difficulty, extorted from the rigorous Sibyl, for the three to wait upon her in a body.
終于從這位寸步不讓的女巫嘴里，討得許可，讓她們三人一起去見她。
Their visit was not so still as Miss Ingram's had been.
她們的拜訪可不像英格拉姆小姐的那么安靜。
We heard hysterical giggling and little shrieks proceeding from the library.
我們聽見圖書室里傳來歇斯底里的嬉笑聲和輕輕的尖叫聲。
And at the end of about twenty minutes they burst the door open, and came running across the hall,
大約二十分鐘后，她們砰地推開了門，奔跑著穿過大廳，
as if they were half-scared out of their wits.
仿佛嚇得沒命兒似的。
"I am sure she is something not right!" they cried, one and all.
"我敢肯定她有些不對頭！"她們一齊叫喊起來。
She told us such things! She knows all about us!
她竟然同我們說這些話！我們的事兒她全知道！
And they sank breathless into the various seats the gentlemen hastened to bring them.
她們各自氣喘吁吁地往男士們急著端過來的椅子上砰地坐了下來。
Pressed for further explanation, they declared she had told them of things they had said and done when they were mere children;
眾人纏住她們，要求細說。她們便說，這算命的講了些她們小時候說過的話，做過的事；
described books and ornaments they had in their boudoirs at home; keepsakes that different relations had presented to them.
描繪了她們家中閨房里所擁有的書和裝飾品，不同親戚分贈給她們的紀念品。
They affirmed that she had even divined their thoughts,
她們斷定她甚至摸透了她們的想法，
and had whispered in the ear of each the name of the person she liked best in the world,
在每個人的耳邊悄聲說出她最喜歡的人的名字，
and informed them of what they most wished for.
告訴她們各人的夙愿。
Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points.
說到這里，男客們插嘴了，急急乎請求她們對最后談到的兩點，進一步透露一下。
But they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
然而面對這些人的糾纏，她們顫栗著臉漲得通紅，又是叫呀又是笑。
