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"Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.
“小姐是個精靈，”他神秘地耳語著說。
Whereupon I told her not to mind his badinage;
因此我告訴她別去管他的玩笑了。
and she, on her part, evinced a fund of genuine French scepticism: denominating Mr. Rochester "un vrai menteur,"
而她卻顯示了豐富道地的法國式懷疑主義，把羅切斯特先生稱作“unvrai menteur”，
and assuring him that she made no account whatever of his "contes de fée,"
向他明確表示她毫不在乎他的“Contes de fee”
and that "du reste, il n'y avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait:"
還說“du reste, il n'y avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait”，
she was sure they would never appear to him, nor ever give him rings, or offer to live with him in the moon.
她敢肯定，她們也決不會出現在他面前，也不會給他戒指，或者建議同他一起住在月亮上。
The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me.
在米爾科特度過的一段時間很有些折磨人。
Mr. Rochester obliged me to go to a certain silk warehouse: there I was ordered to choose half-a-dozen dresses.
羅切斯特先生硬要我到一家絲綢貨棧去，到了那里命令我挑選六件衣服。
I hated the business, I begged leave to defer it: no -- it should be gone through with now.
我討厭這事兒，請求推遲一下。不行，現在就得辦妥。
By dint of entreaties expressed in energetic whispers, I reduced the half-dozen to two:
經我拼命在他耳邊懇求，才由六件減為兩件。
these however, he vowed he would select himself.
然而他發誓要親自挑選些衣服。
With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores:
我焦急地瞧著他的目光在五顏六色的店鋪中逡巡，
he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin.
最后落在一塊色澤鮮艷、富麗堂皇的紫晶色絲綢上和一塊粉紅色高級緞子上。
I told him in a new series of whispers, that he might as well buy me a gold gown and a silver bonnet at once:
我又重新悄悄地告訴他，還不如馬上給我買件金袍子和一頂銀帽子。
I should certainly never venture to wear his choice.
我當然決不會冒昧地去穿他選擇的衣服。
With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone,
費了九牛二虎之力，因為他像頑石一般固執，
I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk.
我才說服他換一塊素靜的黑色緞子和珠灰色的絲綢。
"It might pass for the present," he said; "but he would yet see me glittering like a parterre."
“暫時可以湊乎了，”他說。但他要讓我看上去像花圃一樣耀眼。
