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The nurse now entered, and Bessie followed.
此刻，護一士進來了，后面跟著貝茜。
I yet lingered half-an-hour longer, hoping to see some sign of amity: but she gave none.
不過我又呆了半小時，希望看到某種和解的表情，但她沒有任何顯露。
She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.
她很快進入昏迷狀態，沒有再清醒過來：當晚十二點她去世了。
I was not present to close her eyes, nor were either of her daughters.
我沒有在場替她合上眼睛，她的兩個女兒也不在。
They came to tell us the next morning that all was over.
第二天早上她們來告訴我，一切都過去了。
She was by that time laid out.
那時她的遺體已等候入殮。
Eliza and I went to look at her: Georgiana, who had burst out into loud weeping, said she dared not go.
伊麗莎和我都去瞻仰，喬治亞娜嚎啕大哭，說是不敢去看。
There was stretched Sarah Reed's once robust and active frame, rigid and still:
那里躺著薩拉·里德的軀體，過去是那么強健而充滿生機，如今卻僵硬不動了：
her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid;
冰冷的眼皮遮沒了她無情的眸子；
her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul.
額頭和獨特的面容仍帶著她冷酷靈魂的印記。
A strange and solemn object was that corpse to me.
對我來說，那具一尸一體既奇怪而又莊嚴。
I gazed on it with gloom and pain: nothing soft, nothing sweet, nothing pitying, or hopeful, or subduing did it inspire;
我憂傷而痛苦地凝視著它，沒有激起溫柔、甜蜜、惋惜，或是希望、壓抑的感覺；
only a grating anguish for her woes -- not my loss
而只是一種為她的不幸--不是我的損失而產生的揪心的痛苦，
and a sombre tearless dismay at the fearfulness of death in such a form.
一種害怕這么死去，心灰意冷、欲哭無淚的沮喪。
Eliza surveyed her parent calmly.
伊麗莎鎮定地打量著她母親。
After a silence of some minutes she observed,
沉默了幾分鐘后，她說：
"With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble."
“按她那樣的體質，她本可以活到很老的年紀，煩惱縮短了她的壽命。”
And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant:
接著她的嘴一抽一搐了一下，
as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.
過后，她轉身離開了房間，我也走了。我們兩人都沒有流一滴眼淚。
