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"Why, Jane, what would you have?
“嗨，簡，你需要什么呢？
I fear you will compel me to go through a private marriage ceremony, besides that performed at the altar.
恐怕除了圣壇前的結婚儀式之外，你一定要我私下再舉行一次婚禮吧。
You will stipulate, I see, for peculiar terms -- what will they be?"
看得出來，你會規定一些特殊的條件--是些什么條件呢？”
"I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
“我只求內心的安寧，先生，而不被應接不暇的恩惠壓得透不過氣來。
Do you remember what you said of Céline Varens? Of the diamonds, the cashmeres you gave her?
你還記得你是怎么說塞莉納·瓦倫的嗎？說起你送給她的鉆石和毛料？
I will not be your English Céline Varens.
我不會做你英國的塞莉納·瓦倫。
I shall continue to act as Adèle's governess;
我會繼續當阿黛勒的家庭教師，
by that I shall earn my board and lodging, and thirty pounds a year besides.
掙得我的食宿，以及三十鎊的年薪。
I'll furnish my own wardrobe out of that money, and you shall give me nothing but..."
我會用這筆錢購置自己的衣裝，你什么都不必給我，除了...”
"Well, but what?"
“噢，除了什么呀？”
"Your regard; and if I give you mine in return, that debt will be quit."
“你的尊重。而我也報之以我的尊重，這樣這筆債就兩清了。”
