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And yet I stooped down and kissed her. She looked at me.
然而我還是彎下身子，吻了吻她。她朝我看看。
"Is this Jane Eyre?" she said.
“是簡·愛嗎？”她說。
"Yes, Aunt Reed. How are you, dear aunt?"
“是的，里德舅媽。你好嗎，舅媽？”
I had once vowed that I would never call her aunt again.
我曾發誓永遠不再叫她舅媽。
I thought it no sin to forget and break that vow now.
我想此刻忘卻和違背自己的誓言并不是罪過。
My fingers had fastened on her hand which lay outside the sheet.
我緊握住她擱在被頭外面的手。
Had she pressed mine kindly, I should at that moment have experienced true pleasure.
要是她和氣地握一握我的手，此刻我會由衷地感到愉快。
But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.
但是頑固的本性不是立刻就能感化的，天生的反感也并非輕易就能消除。
Mrs. Reed took her hand away, and, turning her face rather from me, she remarked that the night was warm.
里德太太抽出了手，轉過臉去，說了聲夜晚很暖和。
Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me -- her feeling towards me -- was unchanged and unchangeable.
她再次冷冰冰地凝視著我，我立刻感覺到她對我的看法--對我所懷的情感--沒有改變，也是不可改變的。
I knew by her stony eye -- opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears -- that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last,
從她那溫情透不過、眼淚冶不了，猶如石頭一般的眼睛里，我知道她決心到死都認定我很壞了，
because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure, only a sense of mortification.
因為相信我是好人并不能給她帶來愉快，而只會是一種屈辱感。
I felt pain, and then I felt ire, and then I felt a determination to subdue her
我先是感到痛苦，隨后感到惱火，最后便感到決心要制服她
to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will.
不管她的本性和意志如何頑強，我要壓倒她。
My tears had risen, just as in childhood. I ordered them back to their source.
像兒時一樣，我的眼淚涌了上來。但我把它制住了。
I brought a chair to the bed-head. I sat down and leaned over the pillow.
我將一把椅子挪到床頭邊。我坐了下來，俯身向著枕頭。
"You sent for me," I said, "and I am here, and it is my intention to stay till I see how you get on."
“你派人叫我來，”我說，“現在我來了，我想呆在這兒看看你的身體情況如何?！?/p>
