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"I acted precisely on this suggestion.
“我完全按這個建議去做。
My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance;
我的父親和哥哥沒有把我婚姻的底細透給他們的舊識，
because, in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union
因為在我寫給他們的第一封信里，我就向他們通報了我的婚配，
having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences,
已經開始感受到它極其討厭的后果，
and, from the family character and constitution, seeing a hideous future opening to me
而且從那一家人的性格和體質中，看到了我可怕的前景，
I added an urgent charge to keep it secret:
我附帶又敦促他們嚴守秘密。
and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter-in-law.
不久，我父親替我選中的妻子的丑行，己經到了這個地步，使他也羞于認她為媳了。
Far from desiring to publish the connection, he became as anxious to conceal it as myself.
對這一關系他遠不想大事聲張，卻像我一樣急于把它掩蓋起來。
To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel.
隨后我把她送到了英格蘭，同這么個怪物呆在船上，經歷了一次可怕的航行。
Glad was I when I at last got her to Thornfield, and saw her safely lodged in that third-storey room,
我非常高興，最后終于把她送到了桑菲爾德，看她平安地住在三樓房間里。
of whose secret inner cabinet she has now for ten years made a wild beast's den -- a goblin's cell.
房間的內密室，十年來己被她弄成了野獸的巢穴--妖怪的密室。
I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her,
我費了一番周折找人服侍她，
as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed;
有必要選擇一位忠實可靠的人，
for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret:
因為她的囈語必然會泄露我的秘密，
besides, she had lucid intervals of days -- sometimes weeks -- which she filled up with abuse of me.
此外，她還有神志清醒的日子--有時幾周--這種時候她整日價罵我。
At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat.
最后我從格里姆斯比收容所雇來了格雷斯·普爾。
She and the surgeon, Carter (who dressed Mason's wounds that night he was stabbed and worried),
她和外科醫生卡特（梅森被刺并心事重重的那個夜晚，是他給梅森包，扎了傷口），
are the only two I have ever admitted to my confidence.
只有這兩個人，我讓他們知道我內心的秘密。
Mrs. Fairfax may indeed have suspected something, but she could have gained no precise knowledge as to facts.
費爾法克斯太太其實也許有些懷疑，但無法確切了解有關事實。
