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"My disposition is not so bad as you think: I am passionate, but not vindictive.
“我的脾性并不是象你想的那么壞，我易動感情，卻沒有報復心。
Many a time, as a little child, I should have been glad to love you if you would have let me;
小時候，有很多次，只要你允許，我很愿意愛你；
and I long earnestly to be reconciled to you now: kiss me, aunt."
現在我誠懇希望同你和好：親親我吧，舅媽。”
I approached my cheek to her lips: she would not touch it.
我把臉頰湊向她嘴唇。她不愿碰它。
She said I oppressed her by leaning over the bed, and again demanded water.
還說我倚在床上壓著她了，而且再次要水喝。
As I laid her down -- for I raised her and supported her on my arm while she drank
我讓她躺下時--因為我扶起她，讓她靠著我的胳膊喝水，
I covered her ice-cold and clammy hand with mine:
把手放在她冷冰冰，濕膩膩的手上。
the feeble fingers shrank from my touch -- the glazing eyes shunned my gaze.
她衰竭無力的手指縮了回去了--遲滯的眼睛避開了我的目光。
"Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last,
“那么，愛我也好，恨我也好，隨你便吧，”我最后說，
"you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace."
“反正你已經徹底得到了我的寬恕。現在你去請求上帝的寬恕，安息吧。”
Poor, suffering woman! it was too late for her to make now the effort to change her habitual frame of mind:
可憐而痛苦的女人！現在再要努力改變她慣有的想法，已經為時太晚了：
living, she had ever hated me -- dying, she must hate me still.
活著的時候，她一直恨我--臨終的時候，她一定依然恨我。
