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She made an effort to alter her position, but failed:
她掙扎著要改變一下她的位置，但沒有成功。
her face changed; she seemed to experience some inward sensation -- the precursor, perhaps, of the last pang.
她的臉變了形。她似乎經歷著某種內心的沖動--也許是最后一陣痛苦的先兆。
"Well, I must get it over. Eternity is before me: I had better tell her.
“唉，我一定要恢復過來。永恒就在前頭，我還是告訴她好。
Go to my dressing-case, open it, and take out a letter you will see there."
走到我化妝盒跟前去，打開它，把你看到的一封信拿出來。”
I obeyed her directions. "Read the letter," she said.
我聽從她的吩咐。“把信讀一讀，”她說。
It was short, and thus conceived:
這封信很短，內中寫道：
"Madam, will you have the goodness to send me the address of my niece, Jane Eyre, and to tell me how she is?
“夫人：煩請惠寄我侄女簡·愛的地址，并告知其近況。
It is my intention to write shortly and desire her to come to me at Madeira.
我欲立即去信，盼她來馬德里我處。
Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency;
皇天不負有心之人，目前我家境富裕。
and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life,
我未娶無后，甚望有生之年將她收為養(yǎng)女，
and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave.
并在死后將全部財產饋贈予她。
I am, Madam, etc. , etc. JOHN EYRE, Madeira."
順致敬意。約翰·愛謹啟于馬德里。”
