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Does that circumstance exclude him from the list of your acquaintance — blot him, as it were, out of existence?
難道因為這臨時的情況，你就把他排除在熟人之外——仿佛完全抹煞他的存在？
No, but I can scarcely see what Mr. Rochester has to do with the theme you had introduced.
不，但我幾乎不明白羅切斯特先生與你提出的主題有什么關系。
I was talking of ladies smiling in the eyes of gentlemen.
我剛才談到女士們在先生們眼前笑容滿面。
And of late so many smiles have been shed into Mr. Rochester's eyes that they overflow like two cups filled above the brim.
最近那么多笑容注進了羅切斯特先生的眼里，他的雙眼就像兩只滿得快要溢出來的杯子。
Have you never remarked that?
你對此從來沒有想法嗎？
Mr. Rochester has a right to enjoy the society of his guests.
羅切斯特先生有權享受同賓客們交往的樂趣。
No question about his right.
毫無問題他有這權利。
But have you never observed that, of all the tales told here about matrimony,
可是你沒有覺察到嗎，這里所議論到的婚姻傳聞中，
Mr. Rochester has been favoured with the most lively and the most continuous?
羅切斯特先生有幸被人談得最起勁，而且人們一直興趣不減嗎？
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
聽的人越焦急，說的人越起勁。
I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream.
我與其說是講給吉卜賽人聽，還不如說在自言自語。這時吉卜賽人奇怪的談話、噪音和舉動己使我進入了一種夢境。
One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification.
意外的話從她嘴里一句接一句吐出來，直至我陷進了一張神秘的網絡。
And wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.
懷疑有什么看不見的精靈，幾周來一直守在我心坎里，觀察著心的運轉，記錄下了每次搏動。
"Eagerness of a listener!" repeated she,
"聽的人越焦急？"她重復了一遍。
yes, Mr. Rochester has sat by the hour,
不錯，此刻羅切斯特先生是坐在那兒，
his ear inclined to the fascinating lips that took such delight in their task of communicating.
側耳傾聽著那迷人的嘴巴在興高彩烈地交談。
And Mr. Rochester was so willing to receive and looked so grateful for the pastime given him; you have noticed this?
羅切斯特先生十分愿意接受，并且后來十分感激提供給他的消遣，你注意到這點了嗎？
Grateful! I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face.
感激！我并不記得在他臉上察覺到過感激之情。
