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"Why should I?" he asked.
“為什么我要內疚？”
"Let me put the facts before you. You were dying, and Dirk Stroeve took you into his own house. He nursed you like a mother. He sacrificed his time and his comfort and his money for you. He snatched you from the jaws of death."
“讓我把事情的經過向你擺一擺。你病得都快死了，戴爾克·施特略夫把你接到自己家里，象你親生父母一樣服侍你。為了你，他犧牲了自己的時間、金錢和安逸的生活。他把你從死神的手里奪了回來。”
Strickland shrugged his shoulders.
思特里克蘭德聳了聳肩膀。
"The absurd little man enjoys doing things for other people. That's his life."
“那個滑稽的小胖子喜歡為別人服務。這是他的習性。”
"Granting that you owed him no gratitude, were you obliged to go out of your way to take his wife from him? Until you came on the scene they were happy. Why couldn't you leave them alone?"
“就說你用不著對他感恩，難道你就該霸占住他的老婆？在你出現在他們家門以前，人家生活得非常幸福。為什么你非要插進來不可呢？”
"What makes you think they were happy?"
“你怎么知道他們生活得幸福？”
"It was evident."
“這不是明擺著的事嗎？”
"You are a discerning fellow. Do you think she could ever have forgiven him for what he did for her?"
“你什么事都看得很透。你認為他為她做了那件事，她會原諒他？”
"What do you mean by that?"
“你說的是什么事？”
"Don't you know why he married her?"
“你不知道他為什么同她結婚嗎？”
I shook my head.
我搖了搖頭。
"She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house seduced her. She thought he was going to marry her. They turned her out into the street neck and crop. She was going to have a baby, and she tried to commit suicide. Stroeve found her and married her."
“她原來是羅馬一個貴族家里的家庭教師，這家人的少爺勾引了她。她本以為那個男的會娶她做妻子，沒想到卻被這家人一腳踢了出來。她快臨產了，想要自殺。這時候施特略夫發現了她，同她結了婚。”
"It was just like him. I never knew anyone with so compassionate a heart."
“施特略夫正是這樣一個人。我從來沒有見過哪個人象他那樣富于俠義心腸的。”
