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"You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me. I want an explanation."
“你可把我弄糊涂了，簡。你那憂傷而大膽的目光和語氣，使我困惑，也使我痛苦。我要求你解釋一下。”
"Then, sir, listen. You were from home last night?"
“那么，先生，聽著。昨夜你不是不在家嗎？”
"I was: I know that; and you hinted a while ago at something which had happened in my absence:
“是呀，這你知道。剛才你還提起我不在的時候發生的事情，
nothing, probably, of consequence; but, in short, it has disturbed you.
很可能無關緊要，但總而言之擾亂了你的心境。
Let me hear it. Mrs. Fairfax has said something, perhaps?
講給我聽聽吧。也許是費爾法克斯太太說了什么？
Or you have overheard the servants talk?
要不你聽到傭人說閑話了？
Your sensitive self-respect has been wounded?"
你那敏感的自尊心受到了傷害？”
"No, sir." It struck twelve -- I waited till the time-piece had concluded its silver chime,
“沒有，先生。”這時正敲十二點--我等到小鐘響過清脆和諧的聲音，
and the clock its hoarse, vibritting stroke, and then I proceeded.
大鐘停止沙啞的震蕩才繼續說下去。
