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Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught.
此刻，貝茜竭力勸她服用鎮靜劑，費了好大勁才說服她。
She succeeded with difficulty.
里德太太很快鎮靜下來了。
Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state. I then left her.
陷入了昏睡狀態，隨后我便離開了她。
More than ten days elapsed before I had again any conversation with her.
十多天過去了我才再次同她交談。
She continued either delirious or lethargic.
她仍舊昏迷不醒或是懨懨無力。
And the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.
醫生禁止一切會痛苦地使她激動的事情。
Meantime, I got on as well as I could with Georgiana and Eliza.
同時，我盡力跟喬治亞娜和伊麗莎處好關系。
They were very cold, indeed, at first.
說實在她們起初十分冷淡。
Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.
伊麗莎會老半天坐著，縫呀，讀呀，寫呀，對我或是她妹妹不吭一聲。
Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
這時候喬治亞娜會對著她的金絲雀胡說一通，而不理睬我。
But I was determined not to seem at a loss for occupation or amusement.
但我決計不顯出無所事事，或是不知如何消磨時光的樣子。
I had brought my drawing materials with me, and they served me for both.
我帶來了繪畫工具，既使自己有事可做，又有了消遣。
Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window,
我拿了畫筆和畫紙，遠離她們，在一個靠窗的地方坐下，
and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes,
忙乎著畫一些幻想的人頭象，
representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination,
表現瞬息萬變萬花筒似的想象世界中剎那間出現的景象。
a glimpse of sea between two rocks, the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk, a group of reeds and water-flags,
例如，兩塊巖石之間的一片大海，初升的月亮，橫穿月亮的一條船，一叢蘆葦和景象，
and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them,
一個仙女頭戴荷花從中探出頭來，
an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom.
一個小精靈坐在一圈山楂花下的籬雀窩里。
One morning I fell to sketching a face.
一天早晨，我開始畫一張臉。
