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"Soon, sir?"
“快了嗎，先生？”
"Very soon, my -- that is, Miss Eyre:
“很快，我的...那就是，愛小姐，
and you'll remember, Jane, the first time I, or Rumour,
你還記得吧，簡，我第一次，或者說謠言明白向你表示，
plainly intimated to you that it was my intention to put my old bachelor's neck into the sacred noose,
我有意把自己老單身漢的脖子套上神圣的繩索，
to enter into the holy estate of matrimony -- to take Miss Ingram to my bosom,
進入圣潔的婚姻狀態--把英格拉姆小姐摟入我的懷抱，
in short (she's an extensive armful: but that's not to the point
總之（她足足有一大抱，但那無關緊要
one can't have too much of such a very excellent thing as my beautiful Blanche):
像我漂亮的布蘭奇那樣的市民，是誰都不會嫌大的。
well, as I was saying -- listen to me, Jane!
是呀，就像我剛才說的--聽我說，簡！
You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you?
你沒有回頭去看還有沒有飛蛾吧？
That was only a lady-clock, child, 'flying away home.'
那不過是個瓢蟲，孩子，‘正飛回家去’。
I wish to remind you that it was you who first said to me, with that discretion I respect in you
我想提醒你一下，正是你以我所敬佩的審慎，
with that foresight, prudence, and humility which befit your responsible and dependent position
那種適合你責任重大、卻并不獨立的職業的遠見、精明和謙卑，首先向我提出，
that in case I married Miss Ingram, both you and little Adèle had better trot forthwith.
萬一我娶了英格拉姆小姐，你和小阿黛勒兩個還是立刻就走好。
I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved;
我并不計較這一建議所隱含的對我意中人人格上的污辱；
indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it:
說實在，一旦你們走得遠遠的，珍妮特，我會努力把它忘掉：
I shall notice only its wisdom; which is such that I have made it my law of action.
我所注意到的只是其中的智慧，它那么高明，我已把它奉為行動的準則。
Adèle must go to school; and you, Miss Eyre, must get a new situation."
阿黛勒必須上學；愛小姐，你得找一個新的工作。”
