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"Who are you?" he asked of the intruder.
“你是誰？”他問那個入侵者。
"My name is Briggs, a solicitor of -- Street, London."
“我的名字叫布里格斯--倫敦XX街的一個律師。”
"And you would thrust on me a wife?"
“你要把一個妻子強加于我嗎？”
"I would remind you of your lady's existence, sir, which the law recognises, if you do not."
“我要提醒你，你有一個太太。先生，就是你不承認，法律也是承認的。”
"Favour me with an account of her -- with her name, her parentage, her place of abode."
“請替我描述一下她的情況--她的名字，她的父母，她的住處。”
"Certainly." Mr. Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:
“當然。”布里格斯先生鎮定自若地從口袋里取出了一個文件，用一種一本正經的鼻音讀了起來：
"'I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October A.D. (a date of fifteen years back),
“我斷言并證實，公元XX年十月二十日（十五年前的一個日子），
Edward Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield Hall, in the county of, and of Ferndean Manor, in shire, England,
英國XX郡桑菲爾德府、及XX郡芬丁莊園的愛德華·費爾法克斯·羅切斯特
was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant,
同我的姐姐，商人喬納斯·梅森及妻子克里奧爾人、安托萬內特的女兒，伯莎·安托萬內·梅森，
and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole -- at -- church, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
在牙買加的西班牙鎮XX教堂成婚。
The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that church
婚禮的記錄可見于教堂的登記簿
a copy of it is now in my possession. Signed, Richard Mason.'"
其中一份現在我手中。里查德．梅森簽字。”
"That -- if a genuine document -- may prove I have been married,
“如果這份文件是真的，那也只能證明我結過婚，
but it does not prove that the woman mentioned therein as my wife is still living."
卻不能證明里面作為我妻子而提到的女人還活著。”
"She was living three months ago," returned the lawyer.
“三個月之前她還活著，”律師反駁說。
"How do you know?"
“你怎么知道？”
"I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert."
“我有一位這件事情的證人，他的證詞，先生，連你也難以反駁。”
"Produce him -- or go to hell."
“把他叫來吧--不然見鬼去。”
