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The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered.
一個月的求婚期過去了，只剩下了最后幾個小時。
There was no putting off the day that advanced -- the bridal day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete.
結婚的日子已經臨近，不會推遲。一切準備工作也已就緒，
I, at least, had nothing more to do:
至少我手頭沒有別的事兒要干了。
there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded, ranged in a row along the wall of my little chamber;
我的箱子已收拾停當，鎖好，捆好，沿小房間的墻根，一字兒擺開，
to-morrow, at this time, they would be far on their road to London:
明天這個時候，這些東西會早已登上去倫敦的旅程，
and so should I (D.V.), -- or rather, not I, but one Jane Rochester, a person whom as yet I knew not.
還有我（如蒙上帝恩允）--或者不如說，不是我而是一位我目前尚不認識的，叫作簡·羅切斯特的人。
The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer.
只有地址標簽還沒貼上，那四個小方塊仍躺在抽屜里。
Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction, "Mrs. Rochester, ---- Hotel, London," on each:
羅切斯特先生親自在每個標簽上書寫了：“倫敦XX旅館羅切斯特太太”這幾個字。
I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed.
我無法讓自己或者別人把它們貼上去。
Mrs. Rochester! She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a.m.;
羅切斯特太太！她并不存在，要到明天八點鐘后的某個時候才降生，
and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property.
我得等到完全相信她已經活生生地來到這個世界時，才把那份財產劃歸她。
It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table,
在我梳妝臺對面的衣柜里，
garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet:
一些據說是她的衣物，已經取代了她羅沃德的黑呢上衣和草帽。
for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment;
這已經是足夠的了，因為那套婚禮服，
the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil pendent from the usurped portmanteau.
以及垂掛在臨時占用的鉤子上的珠白色長袍和簿霧似的面紗，本不屬于她的。
I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained;
我關上了衣柜，隱去了里面幽靈似的奇裝異服。
which, at this evening hour -- nine o'clock -- gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
在晚間九點這個時辰，這些衣著在我房間的暗影里，發出了陰森森的微光。
"I will leave you by yourself, white dream," I said.
“我要讓你獨個兒留著，白色的夢幻，”我說。
"I am feverish: I hear the wind blowing: I will go out of doors and feel it."
“我興奮難耐，我聽見風在勁吹，我要出門去感受一下。”
